Archive for the 'Inch Strand' Category


EI-128 at rest on the beach

Saturday, April 19th, 2008 by Donncha
EI-128 at rest on the beach

EI-128 sitting on the at , Co. in 2006. I’ve posted a few of this in the past and I can safely say this is the last one unless I happen to see it again!

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Spectators on the beach

Sunday, February 10th, 2008 by Donncha

The hang gliding attracted a bit of a on Inch in 2006. Well, it was late September and there wasn’t that many on the in the first place, so 2 isn’t so bad, eh?

Hunger got the best of us and we watched as a powered flew high up in the air. I don’t think any of the gliders made it up that day because the winds weren’t right.

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Beach in the evening

Friday, June 15th, 2007 by Donncha

in Co. as the shines over the and the tide comes in.

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G-BKSP on Inch Strand

Monday, June 4th, 2007 by Donncha

Another shot from our few hours at in Co. last September. This is G-BKSP waiting on the to fly. Unlike the glider I posted earlier I saw this fly. Unfortunately conditions weren’t suitable for flying the gliders before we had to head home to Cork.

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EI-128 ready to fly

Thursday, May 17th, 2007 by Donncha

Here’s another shot of EI-128. Following my last shot I moved to the other side of the to capture some of the and hills behind.

This was originally shot at an angle to get as much vertical space in but I rotated the image and filled in the and background as well as I was able. is usually quite easy to fill in because it’s so uniform but there was a gradient of shade according to how damp it was that made things harder.

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EI-128 on Inch Strand

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007 by Donncha

Last September a large group of enthusiasts spent a weekend at in Co. . They were from two clubs, one in Dublin and one from further north I think. I took down their details but that scrap of paper is long lost at this stage.

Conditions weren’t the best on the day we passed the . It was a beautiful sunny day, but the wind wasn’t blowing in the right direction and the only I saw flying was a powered one. We were on our way home so couldn’t wait around unfortunately. I still got some nice shots. Hopefully I’ll find time to work on them over the next few weeks!

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Father and son in the water

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007 by Donncha

and wading in the shallow at , Co. last September.

I previously posted a picture of the child but this image demanded attention when I was looking for “. I love the silhouettes, the colour, the and the .

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Family at the beach

Monday, February 12th, 2007 by Donncha

Dad carries the forgotten kite, daughter walks through the and mom basks in the of a glorious September afternoon at , Co. .

Tonight is theme night at the camera club. My theme is “The ” so I went through my archives yesterday choosing suitable . This will be one, which is possibly stretching the definition a little but it does have breaking on a .

Vignetting was done using an overlay layer and a separate overlay was used to make the shadows of the deeper. I could have burned them in as well but I like the way it turned out.

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Points to relief

Thursday, October 5th, 2006 by Donncha

A sign points the way to the public toilets, or restroom, at , Co. .
This sign can be a much sought after sight on a long journey!
“Are we there yet? Are we there yet?”
“Mom! I need to go!”
“I can’t hold it any more!”

Everyone rushes to the public convenience when they hit the .

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Happy child in the water

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006 by Donncha

A very runs through the incoming tide at , Co. . The tide came in suddenly forcing all the adults back but it brought a big smile to this youngster’s face!

Originally shot in colour with the behind the , I had to brighten the image significantly to get any detail in the . That blew out the brighter parts of the image so I made it into a image and I’m very with the result.

It was competition night in Mallow Camera Club last night. The standard was amazingly high, but then again, a number of old hands, and pros are members as well as newbies like myself. I had to select 15 images for entry and with some difficulty whittled 30 images down to that number. After all that, there was some mix up with the projector and my images weren’t shown anyway. I don’t mind because the deadline for digital images had been during the week, not on the night, and I think images had been copied into the wrong directory. This photo would have been one of those images shown.

Just got an email from Shutterstock, my check’s in the post! Woo!

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