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Ever decreasing stones

John Smyth — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:20:39 +0000

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.

Light over Lough Atalia

John Smyth — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:03:00 +0000

Moonlight [and the street lights of Renmore] reflected in the still waters of Lough Atalia last night. The red lights in the centre of the picture are on the mast in Mellows Army Barracks and the bright rectangle of light nearby is the front of the Department of Defense building. You can see another picture taken on the same night here.

Blue Stone at Ballyconneely

John Smyth — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:09:16 +0000

I drove all the way to Clifden one evening in the hope of a nice sunset – instead, it was dull and overcast. On the way home, I swung around by Ballyconneely and glimpsed a small stretch of beach where I took this picture.

The Racing Line

John Smyth — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 22:03:37 +0000

I took a very similar picture to this one nearly 2 years ago on the same spot in the Lough Inagh valley in Connemara. Not much has changed – locals appear to be attempting a personal best when zooming around the narrow bends off the road that winds along the edge of the lake. Despite having the whole place to myself for quite a few hours this morning, I still managed to block my own shot by inadvertently walking in front of one of the cameras that I had set up on a time-lapse recording [click here for video].