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Courtesy of On The Record, the best of The Irish Times‘ look we’re cool we have blogs, comes the genius that is FestivalShirts.net.

The only t-shirts you can wear to a festival this year and still expect to come away from it with everyone thinking you’re really cool, they come in bright but not attention-seeking colours with such genius captions as “If this is your t-shirt I slept in your tent”, “Don’t take drugs. That’s stealing” and “What Music?”

Finally got my 50mm f/1.8 on Wednesday.

This photo won this competition.

Well, sorta. As Caitriona explains here, she had a hard time picking a winner, so she decided to give two prizes (generous her).
Congrats to my fellow winner McAWilliams (I’ve just realised I haven’t added a link to him in the sidebar though I’ve been a viewer/reader(?) of his photoblog for a while now - Soon to be rectified).

Anyway, while trying not to ramble (I haven’t even prepared a speech), I’ll just say:

• Thanks to Caitriona for the competition (and particularly the prize: something I’d been interested in, but hadn’t worked up the nerve to buy.)
• Well done to the other entrants for their beautiful work, and comiserations to redmum, who unfortunately missed the deadline.
• Thanks also to Absolut, who asked Caitriona to run the competition and donated the prizes. (Similar competitions were run on other photoblogs, and they ran a website with entries and stuff)