North Atlantic Skyline » monochrome http://johnsmyth.ie/blog Despatches from the West of Ireland. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:06:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 On Galway Bay http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2011/08/10/on-galway-bay/ http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2011/08/10/on-galway-bay/#comments Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:54:20 +0000 John Smyth http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/?p=3660 On Galway Bay

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Two ladies silhouetted in the lights of a taxi as they walk through the Spanish Arch in Galway.

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Sunrise on a foggy February morning near Oughterard, Co. Galway.

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On Saturday night [January 8th], I nearly cried with the cold – a freezing fog and an air temperature of around -6 Celcius made standing around taking photographs a painful experience. When I saw the two spotlights on a building in the Claddagh casting beams of light onto the ice in the Claddagh Basin, I knew it was just a matter of waiting for someone to walk into the path sof the light beams.

Unfortunately, I was nearly frozen to the footpath before someone strolled over to have a look at the ice. I used a very high ISO to achieve a reasonably fast shutter speed (so that the person would not be blurred)

Camera = Canon 7D, lens=Canon 15-85@ 35mm, aperture=f5, speed=1/20, ISO2000, tripod.

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