Lady in the water
The air temperature was several degrees Celcius below zero along Salthill Promenade some weeks ago, but it didn’t deter the early morning swimmers. The lady in the picture entered the water just as the sun was rising across the east Galway hills on the other side of Galway Bay on the last weekend of November. Bigger version here.
Camera = Canon 5D, lens = 100-400mm@400, aperture=f9, speed=1/60 sec, ISO=200, tripod.

[...] The tides have been very high this week, and waves were crashing over the prom this evening as I drove home at 7.30 pm. The picture above was taken before Xmas, at dawn, on a very cold and calm morning [same morning as this one]. [...]