Waiting for the Light

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Photo of photographers with tripods spread across a beach at dawn, some clustered near jagged dark rocks while one stands alone on a rocky outcrop to the right. Wet sand reflects a sky of layered grey and pink clouds. Mountains are visible on the far right horizon. Footprints mark the sand in the foreground.

Nothing sorts the casual photographers from the committed ones quite like an early morning alarm on a Kerry beach in March. This lot from Blarney Photography Club were out on Cappagh Strand before first light, tripods planted in the wet sand, hoods up, waiting for whatever the sky decided to offer.

The long exposure in the first shot turned them into ghosts which felt fitting, given how they were all standing perfectly still and barely speaking, the universal code of photographers who haven’t had coffee yet. By the time the clouds broke and the pink started to creep in, they’d fanned out along the rocks, each one finding their own angle on the same stretch of coastline. It’s a funny thing, watching people who spend their time making images become the image themselves.


Apertureƒ/8
CameraILCE-7RM5
Focal length24mm
ISO400
Shutter speed25s

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One response to “Waiting for the Light”

  1. Marianne Tiel avatar

    @donncha beautiful!

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