I live in North Dublin. Apparently it’s the sticks but frankly, it has a postcode, the buses are pretty frequent and on average take around 15 minutes to get to town so it qualifies as the city for me.
Last night, suffering from a little “I spend too much time inside in front of my computer”, I decided to go and shoot the sunset. The fact that the sun was around to set was an added incentive, but I’ve done Clontarf to death, done Portmarnock to death, done Skerries to death and done Balbriggan to death. I wanted to go somewhere new seascapy, and the choice was north or south.
As it happens, a few weeks/months ago (time goes by so fast), one of my friends had taken me around parts of Dalkey because I was interested in where you might go climbing in Dublin, and amongst the places I was taken that day was Bullock Harbour. I can’t ever remember being there before although I know I attempted to explore Dalkey before many years ago. Anyway, absent any better offers, last night I went to back to Bullock Harbour having not found anything to attract me in Blackrock or Dun Laoghaire, and much standing around ensued. There was a gorgeous sunset. I am a lousy sunset photographer.
I’m starting to think I should perhaps learn more about enhancing these things with flashes rather than filters.
Unfortunately, yon towers are a bit too far away to light up with a Speedlite.
I’m a little bit lost photography wise, and for some reason I find Dublin very limiting when it comes to photography, don’t know why. I’m looking for ideas for different things to do which currently do not include HDR (doesn’t really hugely talk to me) but I haven’t found yet what I want to try.
Of the two places I have been lately – Bullock Harbour and White Rock Beach, I would be more inclined to go back to White Rock Beach despite it being too much like hard work – there are lots of steps. It is, however, beautiful.
I’m toying with another dawn raid in the morning; just haven’t decided if I can manage a second 5am start in a row, and, more importantly, where to go. Very hard.
Useful links are thin on the ground today but there’s just this
50 actions some of which I might actually use at some point in the future.
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