North Atlantic Skyline » galway bay http://johnsmyth.ie/blog Despatches from the West of Ireland. Tue, 22 May 2012 23:44:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Ever decreasing stones http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2012/01/18/ever-decreasing-stones/ http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2012/01/18/ever-decreasing-stones/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:20:39 +0000 John Smyth http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/?p=3842 Ever decreasing stones
Stones on the seashore between Spiddal and Inverin, worn smooth and round by the sea, and getting smaller year after year.

Picture taken last Sunday morning with a Canon 5D DSLR, Canon 17-40mm zoom lens @ 40mm, 0.9 Neutral Density filter (reduces light by 3 stops), ISO50, shutter speed = 4 seconds. Manfrotto tripod fitted with a pistol grip head also used.

]]> http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2012/01/18/ever-decreasing-stones/feed/ 0 New Year’s Day, 2012 http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2012/01/01/new-years-day-2012/ http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2012/01/01/new-years-day-2012/#comments Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:13:24 +0000 John Smyth http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/?p=3799 Rainbow over Galway Bay
After three weeks of mist, drizzle and rain, the sun finally visited Galway. I watched sunrise down at the diving board on Salthill Promenade [short Youtube timelapse of the sunrise here ]- the strong wind was not loud enough to drown out the shrieks of the early morning swimmers getting into the freezing water. I watched the sun set at the Cliffs of Moher in the face of an almighty gale. In between the buffeting and the gales, I climbed Abbey Hill in the Burren and watched rainbows chase rainclouds across Galway Bay.

Happy New Year to you all.

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Any hope I had of seeing even the tail-end of the lunar eclipse today was dashed by the poor weather. For about the tenth day in a row, high winds and driving rain swept across the west in the afternoon, just in time to blot out the rising of the moon and the end of the eclipse. I’ve had to cancel quite a few planned night photo outings this year due to cloud cover – but given that I live in Galway, I suppose I haven’t too badly overall (i.e. I’m lucky to have seen anything at all this year). The picture above is from the other lunar eclipse this year – taken in June – and this picture [click link] shows a panoramic view of my camera setup (I videoed the eclipse also) taken in South Park, looking across Galway Bay.

UPDATE [December 11th 2011] : A gallery of images of the eclipse last night from The Guardian - click here for link. Obviously, most of the planet had clearer skies than Ireland yesterday.

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