Following some good advice, I spent a good portion of last Saturday at Garrettstown beach. The start of the day seemed rather uneventful. It was bitterly cold, hugely windy and the waves were very scrappy/patchy. Not conditions similar to other more eventful trips to Garrettstown. Nevertheless, I stuck around for a few hours; until my grumbling stomach finally got the better of me and I thought I’d retreat for some munchies. How and ever, as it sometimes does, things improved infinitely. On driving past the other end of the beach, I spotted a few lads unrolling and setting up various sails. Aha. Windsurfing! Not only that, kite surfing also! Jackpot…
I’ve wanted to try my hand at kite surfing photography for months. Possibly even longer. Last Saturday could not have presented any better an opportunity to do exactly that. It was a great buzz to photograph, I can only imagine what it’s actually like to be on the board! Thanks to all the lads, kite and wind surfers, that put on such a good show and didn’t once ask why exactly it was that I was standing on the beach pointing a lens towards them. As you’d expect, there are a few more on flickr.
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I’m very jealous. They’re great. I’d prefer to be trying to photograph kitesurfers down in Garretstown rather than on Dollymount.
Pity about the conditions for the surf comp alright. On wednesday night the wind was predicted to be 1-2mph for saturday!
Glad you got some good shots anyway, I love the first one up there, really nice. You should try and get some of them printed in Fins magazine. Send them to tony at fins dot ie
Well, I’m terribly ashamed for not noticing sooner that you had a blog as well! For some reason the photos look even better here!
Really making me wish I could get to Ireland faster already!
Nice job fella, and no sea spray! your lens must be bigger than my telescope.