Where the Dingle Coast Meets the Swell

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Clogher Beach in early March is not what you’d call hospitable. This little cove on the Dingle Peninsula opens straight onto the Atlantic, and the swell hits the slate head-on; the spray goes up twice as high as the wave itself. I was there with Blarney Photography Club, all of us strung out along the beach in heavy coats, pretending we weren’t freezing.

I kept the shutter short enough to freeze the break but long enough to let the water show some texture and pulled the exposure down a touch to protect the foam. You have to use burst mode in situations like this and going through the images in Lightroom makes a timelapse movie of the waves enveloping the rocks in a very dramatic way.


Apertureƒ/6.3
CameraILCE-7RM5
Focal length160mm
ISO160
Shutter speed1/2000s

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2 responses to “Where the Dingle Coast Meets the Swell”

  1. Anton Gorlin avatar

    @donncha so much action!

  2. Donncha Ó Caoimh avatar

    @antongorlin it was amazing. The beach is unsafe to swim in, but you'd have to be utterly mad to go in the day we were there! Huge waves smashing those rocks in particular over and over again!

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