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Alberto Rondina, PKRA, Alvor, Portugal, 2007

I’m slowly working through the back catalogue. It’s a weird experience.

Anyway, a handful of photographs got out of this trip but I never really looked at the rest in too much detail. Here is Alberto Rondina during one of the heats for the invitational freestyle in Portugal. I enjoyed that week but the wind was [...]

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 [...]

Kitesurfing at Sunset, Portugal

There’s a fairly Mahler-esque feeling around this place lately so I want to drop some colour back in.

Happy colour, not dark, dramatic, brooding colours.

This was taken in Portugal about 2 and a half years ago – oh god it’s really that long since I did those trips. This one in particular had a big impact [...]

Francois Colussi out wide in Sutton

I really haven’t been out taking many kite photographs much for the last year or two, and most of what I have done has been fairly easy for want of a better description with a few key exceptions. This, however, is one of the older photographs, and it dates from about 2007 or 2008 when [...]

Kitesurfing in Achill

This is Sean Murphy yesterday. I was out with a 17-85 – it’s not the usual lens to play with for kite shots but Keel gives you some wide angle options without you necessarily having to go into what was freezing cold water (I am told – I didn’t bother checking it out).

I’ve just had [...]

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 [...]

Sepia kitesurfers

and

both from December 2007. Amongst my favourite photographs again, I’m not sure why.

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 [...]

dawn on Dollymount….

I can’t remember why, but this lot of photographs was taken a morning before I had some problems with the camera, can’t remember what exactly, because they preceded a break from taking photography. I’m not sure why.

I always liked them for some reason.

They seemed to have so much warmth to them.

as well as toys [...]