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Snowy foam

When I got to Lahinch on Monday, it looked as though it had been snowing. The whole beach was covered in this foam stuff which consisted basically of sea water and sand from what I can see (look, I got absolutely covered in it). It was fascinating. Because of the way it was blowing up [...]

More watery greenness

I’m off to Cornwall next week. I’m looking forward to it.

black and white crashing wave

There’s usually so much I want to say on this site when I’m conveniently stuck in a traffic jam without any option to type it up, and then I go and forget it all.

Okay. The above is some crashing water near Crab Island in County Clare, taken on the May bank holiday. It’s another of [...]

under fire

Trish reckons I need to get in the water; the short fact is that off Doolin Point, I’m not sure that would have been a particularly good idea. This is from Sunday’s session. I want to get at an angle to the curl; despite my best efforts, the closest I got was this:

and really, after [...]

today has been a long day…

The forecast for the weekend is for more snow. Given the fun and games I had with it the last time – last week (is it really so recent? So recent, and such a long time ago) – I decided to buy a shovel to clear some. I’d like some salt as well but that [...]

Freezing cold, no seriously.

I apologise for the lack of updates (ish) lately. Been busy.

This was taken at a kite competition a few weeks ago. When I say that it was freezing cold if you came off the water, I’m not joking. Her hands were freezing cold. Hence the image. This sucked in colour; worked a lot better in [...]

Kitesurfer, Sligo

The May bank holiday saw the kitesurfing bandwagon roll into Rosses Point, a beach I’ve visited, oh, once in my life as far as I can remember.

I like this one. I like a lot of the other shots I took yesterday as well but this one is the (current) standy out one.

Theoretically I was going [...]

A surfer returning home

Well that’s the title anyway. It’s not strictly speaking accurate as I know this surfer lives in Dublin and I know this photograph was taken in Morocco. But we did fly home the evening this picture was taken.

I’ve a yen to go travelling again. I’ve had it since about September to be honest but things [...]

Girl kitesurfer, El Medano, Tenerife

There’s nothing very pyrotechnical about this photograph and in that, I think lies the reason I like it so much. It’s easy to make a kitesurfing photograph look great when your kitesurfer is dangling upside down in the middle of a newstyle trick. And once you have bells and whistles like autofocus and continuous shooting [...]

Volcano, Tenerife. Christmas about 4 years ago.

I’m not sure what to say about this. It was taken with a 350D and a 70-300mm Sigma zoom. I’ve always liked Sigma lenses. There was a lot of haze for this photograph.

I have this yen to do lots of black skies but it’s difficult to find a balance when you have a volcanic mountain [...]