[Leica] IMGs: Diving boards at Newfy, Kilkee

[Douglas Barry]

Newfy or New Found Out is a cliff jump with diving boards in Kilkee, Co. 
Clare.

In the summer, when the place is thronged with girls and boys, it is a 
test of testosterone - or stupidity - as young men try to impress the 
onlookers with feats of daring as they dive or jump in when the tide 
gives the landing zone enough water to be forgiving. One misjudgement 
and they split their skulls: a perfect dive and they wind up with 
something decorous hanging on their arm. If they chicken out, it's 
public humiliation....

Mind you, when I was down there in September, all the youth had left, 
scattering back to schools and colleges, but there were a few arsing 
around very inelegantly on the boards. None of them dived, as the water 
was still at the red section of the marker boards, but, then again, I 
wouldn't have dived in either as I'm a fairly misshapen missile at this 
stage of my diving career. However, in my youth....(cue regretful 
sobbing into my swimming towel)

Jumping from the diving boards at Newfy, Kilkee, Co. Clare. Fuji X100S. 
See LARGE. Three images that made me regret not bringing the Sony A7ii 
and a few lenses.

Just to give you some perspective, the really brave go in off a wall 
that's at least 15 feet higher than where my camera position is, and I'm 
standing way above these people. Funnily enough, one of them ran after 
me when I was leaving and asked me was I from "the paper". People seem 
to think that anybody who doesn't use an iPhone must be from Magnum.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Kilkee/Kilkee+2017+Newfy.jpg.html

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Kilkee/Kilkee+2017+Newfy+Jumper.jpg.html

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Kilkee/Kilkee+2017+Newfy+Jumper2.jpg.html

Douglas