North Atlantic Skyline » sea 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 Sparkles on Silver Strand http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2012/03/14/sparkles-on-silver-strand/ http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2012/03/14/sparkles-on-silver-strand/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:43:54 +0000 John Smyth http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/?p=3915 Sparkles on Silver Strand
Not enough light from the stars…a portrait of my missus lighting up Silver Strand late last year.

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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.

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A boatman waiting to take sailors out to the boats in the bay off Trabane (An Trá Bán – the white beach) on Leitir Mór island in west Galway last Saturday.

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Even though it was a calm morning, the full tide meant that the waves splashing onto the shore at Spiddal, Co. Galway [on November 8th] were big enough to catch the rising sun. Picture taken about an hour after sunrise, on the beach beside the road on the eastern side of Spiddal.

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