This week I got my final set of results for the degree I have being doing over the past three years! And I am extremely happy with my results, I can now officially say I have an Ordinary Degree in Computer Applications & Support.

I finished this degree achieving a Merit 1, a Merit 1 (>60%) is the closest to a distinction (>70%). Although I would have liked to get a distinction, I knew I was not going to get it, I just did not put in the right amount of work to get it! I thought that if anything I was going to get a Merit 2 (>50%) so I was surprised to see that I got the Merit 1 and I and extremely happy with that result!

Whichever way you think of it, I now have a degree, and it is my first so far! Next year I am going to continue on with my education and study IT Management. I hope to aim high in that year and achieve a distinction. I always knew that next year would be the year where I have to put in the work.

I get my official degree handed to me later this year, but that is not until a while after I start back to college.

I am looking forward to starting my next year, it seems really interesting. If all goes to plan I will be learning all about iPhone development next year, which is definitely the best way to go, as I do not see the iPhone going away anywhere anytime soon .

Also next year I am finally getting to be in the band new multi-million euro IT department, which already looks amazing from what I saw when I went on a short tour of the place with a few fellow college-mates!

Today’s photograph is of a sea-lion, this is one of many sea-lions that you can find in Dublin zoo!  I think this photograph of the sea-lion is funny in a way, he is looking very proud of himself, while I was watching these sea-lions they were making some really strange but funny noises.

So below is three photographs, the first is the original photograph which I took, the second two are ones which I have altered using Photoshop.

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This last altered photograph that I made in Photoshop is my favourite out of the two, it has a slight brush stroke in it, also I used a fresco filter. I also added in a gradient colour to give it the orange and black effect.

Tonight I had fun playing about with this photograph, the photograph for today is of a Peacock. I took this photograph earlier this week when I was up in Dublin zoo. I think this bird is really beautiful looking and it’s tail is really amazing when it is opened.

I think the final Photoshop version of this photograph came out really well, I really wanted to enhance the colour of the Peacock and I think I achieved that, if you have any critique on this photograph feel free to leave me a comment .

If you want to know more about the Peacock, you can here.

I also created a short video of the Peacock which I recorded while I was at the zoo, the music I added to the video sounds strange so I just wanted to throw it in! Also the music is free / open-source!

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