Things that make you go “oooh” – like the Atlantic Ocean, for instance. This pooch wasn’t taking any chances and waited on dry land for his owner to swim ashore.
Every morning, a dedicated bunch of swimmers arrive at Blackrock diving board at the end of Salthill Promenade in Galway, and take a morning swim. It’s a bit chilly – the buoy located to the west of Galway Bay indicates that the water temperature is about 14 degrees C at present. It’s an early start too – the first swimmers arrived at around 7.30am.
Sunrise at Blackrock diving board, Salthill, Galway from John Smyth on Vimeo.
The video above is a time-lapse video taken down at the diving board this morning. I set up my Canon G9 to take a picture every 2 seconds and the piece covers an elapsed time of about 45 minutes – the camera plays back the pictures as a video at 15 frames per second. In it, you can see the constant stream of swimmers coming and going, as well as myself and another photographer taking pictures [that’s me taking pictures along the diving board, and standing in front of the camera chatting to someone about dolphin sightings (but that’s another story – see below)]. The image gets darker as the video progresses, even though the sky was getting brighter (as the sun shines on the lens, the camera adjusts accordingly, and makes the image darker). The original video is of much higher quality – the process of converting it for upload degrades it somewhat (and makes it much smaller – the orginal file was 120 Mb).
You can see the pictures that I took this morning in this gallery of Salthill prom pictures.
Update : I went back to the prom on Sunday afternoon and got to see the dolphin myself. Unfortuantely, I only had a wideangle lens with me, so this largish picture of the dolphin is a bit rubbish (yes, I know – having the wrong lens is the Worst. Photographer. Excuse. Ever.).
Thanks for the link!
love that time lapse! Dont see that kinda thing very often so it’s a rare treat.
Love the time lapse. Had a little giggle at your dicking & diving about the place taking shots.
I remember my godmother used to do this every morning for years. The 1 thing I couldn’t get over is how old it made her look. We only noticed when she stopped it how worn out she looked.
& on the subject of the dolphin, I didn’t know anything about it. Do you know if it’s still there or what’s the story with it?
I plan to do more of the video stuff- it’s very easy with the Canon G9.
I don’t know if the dolphin is still there – it’s very unusual for a dolphin to come into the bay (they are normally seen further out, near the Aran Islands).
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