A shot of the moon taken last Saturday evening as it rose over Knockvorneen in Finvarra, by the Flaggy Shore (taken a while before these pictures) . The moon’s size is exaggerated because I used a large [640mm] focal length lens.

Here is a short video taken of the moon as it rose behind the hill [I began the recording after I took the picture above].It was recorded using a Canon G9 digital compact camera which has a built-in timelapse feature [the video covers about an hour of actual time].

There’s not many leaves left on the trees after the gales that swept across Galway Bay on Saturday. The sea was pretty rough, and heavy showers meant that the streets were more empty than one would expect for an October Bank Holiday weekend. These pictures are from another stormy weekend earlier in the year – taken near Doolin in Co. Clarein July, during the alleged ’summer’.

When the waves are very big, the churning motion of the sea generates a coffee-coloured foam on the water.

Sea water flowing over rocks as waves crash along the shoreline at Doolin, Co. Clare.

These pictures were shot with a high shutter speed, which freezes the motion of the waves.

This picture was taken at the same location as this one.

A view from Corkscrew Hill in the Burren of Galway Bay. The martello tower [1,2 and at the tip of this peninsula] is around 3 miles away in Finavarra [near New Quay] in Co. Clare and Galway City, shimmmering in the background, is about 11 miles away from where I took the picture.

You can see a bigger version of the picture here (where it is easier to see the city features) and here is a bigger version with the buildings labelled [the black shape in front of the Acquarium is the Green Dragon on display].

View Flaggy Shore in a larger map here

I was using a Canon 40D with a Canon 100-400mm zoom lens [so that I could stand a safe distance away]. The camera was set to high-speed mode which allowed me to photograph the sequence of images below [it is also a very easy way to go through memory cards].