Return to The Boyne
08th December 2010
After my Diamond award in last round of the IPPA Competition ( see here ) in November, I decided to make another trip down to the same location on the River Boyne.
However this time around we had some snow in Meath which was the start of two weeks of snow fall and sub zero temperatures. I did manage to drive out the the Boyne but parked my car about half a mile away so that I would not get stuck in the snow and icy conditions on the road. ALso you have to drive back up a steep hill.
The image above was taken from the same spot as before but this time looking down stream. There is the snow on the grass bank with a clear sky but not for long. I waited for the clouds to roll in and hoped that no snow was following. While waiting I did take a few images of the river bank and the fast flowing Boyne.
The weather front was starting to move in and standing around in the snow was starting to have and effect on my toes ie bloody freezing. Moving up the path a little bit to get a different composition of the snow covered bank, the Boyne and the tree. I also had some wonderful light from the setting sun coming in from the left. Switching lens and putting on the 17-40mm to give me a bit extra wide angle compared to the fixed 24 TSE I normally use to give me more of the foreground snow covered bank. Have a look here Link to see a image taken with my iPhone of my camera's screen.
At this point I don't think I could feel my toes and decided to call it a day and start the long walk back up to the car. However this changed very quickly when I looked up after packing the camera away. Back out they came and the result is the image below. A slightly square format to this image to crop out the bright setting sun on the left. You can see the greater volume of water in the Boyne compared to the previous news story. None of the foreground stones are visible. I got that feeling in me bones or that could have just being the cold but looking at the camera screen I knew this was the shot.
However this time around we had some snow in Meath which was the start of two weeks of snow fall and sub zero temperatures. I did manage to drive out the the Boyne but parked my car about half a mile away so that I would not get stuck in the snow and icy conditions on the road. ALso you have to drive back up a steep hill.
The image above was taken from the same spot as before but this time looking down stream. There is the snow on the grass bank with a clear sky but not for long. I waited for the clouds to roll in and hoped that no snow was following. While waiting I did take a few images of the river bank and the fast flowing Boyne.
The weather front was starting to move in and standing around in the snow was starting to have and effect on my toes ie bloody freezing. Moving up the path a little bit to get a different composition of the snow covered bank, the Boyne and the tree. I also had some wonderful light from the setting sun coming in from the left. Switching lens and putting on the 17-40mm to give me a bit extra wide angle compared to the fixed 24 TSE I normally use to give me more of the foreground snow covered bank. Have a look here Link to see a image taken with my iPhone of my camera's screen.
At this point I don't think I could feel my toes and decided to call it a day and start the long walk back up to the car. However this changed very quickly when I looked up after packing the camera away. Back out they came and the result is the image below. A slightly square format to this image to crop out the bright setting sun on the left. You can see the greater volume of water in the Boyne compared to the previous news story. None of the foreground stones are visible. I got that feeling in me bones or that could have just being the cold but looking at the camera screen I knew this was the shot.
