Odd one out
Posted on October 29, 2006
Filed Under Dollymount, Sport, photography, stupidity | Comments Off
Here are some more photo’s from yesterday’s expedition with my shiny new camera. I’m resisting the urge to tell you what model it is but, to paraphrase Gaybo, I’m delira and excira. One downside is, because it looks like the dog’s dangly bits, I’m afraid someone’s going to try and mug me for it. Having said that, I wandered around Dublin today and it seems to be the in-thing to walk around with a camera, albeit the majority were Polish visitors/workers.
I use Google’s Picasa for the photo editing and mainly restricting myself to choosing between ‘I’m feeling lucky‘ (I wish) and clicking the sharpen and saturation buttons. So any dodgy photos are entirely my fault. Being slightly colour-blind doesn’t help either!!
Yesterday, I read that Dublin’s high tide was approx 4pm so I visited Dollymount around 3pm. I figured the kite-surfers would want to harness the power of an incoming tide for their ‘sport’ but there wasn’t many active athletes performing when I got there. More turned up as I was leaving, i.e., the tide was heading out. IMHO, it seems an odd sport/activity. The ‘cost of entry‘ is quite high (for the equipment) and they don’t seem to do much. They surf out and then they surf back in. Occasionally, they launch themselves into the air, but to be honest, they’d probably save a ton of money if they just bought a surfboard??
Maybe I’m being cynical (who, me?), but there was a lot of testosterone but not that many women. Why bother, lads?
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Why the title?
Well, the title of the first photo (top left) is called ‘Spot the odd one out‘. Or maybe I’m the odd one out for not getting kite-surfing?
