[Leica] Wind sewage and surf

[Douglas Barry]

Thanks Howard,
They used to say swimming in Dublin Bay is like "Going through the 
motions" and it's looking like that all over again as our population 
increases and waste water treatment capacity is lagging behind.

There is a proposal to to build a giant totally out of character 
development of tower blocks which will ruin the character of our old 
village which is mainly 19th century. The highest of the eight blocks 
will be nine storeys which is monstrous in comparison with all of the 
buildings here. However, what irks me most, is the sewage. I'm chairman 
of our local residents group so have been up to my eyes in the 
proverbial as we fight this thing.

With an additional 1,000 plus people generating 158,500 kilos of solid 
sewage, in addition to the liquid stuff which will have to be coped with 
by an already saturated, and under pressure, sewage system, it will 
increase the overflows that South County Dublin bathers (like me!) have 
to endure frequently. The existing attenuation tank at the West Pier in 
Dun Laoghaire regularly overflows after heavy rain, and the presence of 
fecal “brown outs” prohibit safe bathing at Seapoint’s Blue Flag beach.

Should this catastrophe happen, we will see a return to the 1970s, where 
it was impossible to bathe safely. This Blue Flag beach and bathing area 
attracts adults and children from all over South and West Co. Dublin and 
also is, with the historic Martello tower, a tourist focus. Further 
beach closures and swimming bans will lead to widespread outrage across 
Dublin.

With the longer survival of CoVid in water, I'm not going to swim during 
the winter this year.

Douglas - all ready to be grossly outraged :-)




On 12/10/2020 15:25, Howard L Ritter Jr via LUG wrote:
> I’m still cringing at the appearance of “sewage outlet” in the same caption with “kite surfing at” and “close to swimming area"…
>
> —howard
>
>> On Oct 12, 2020, at 10:13 AM, Jim Nichols<jhnichols at lighttube.net>  wrote:
>>
>> That's an impressive shot, Douglas.
>>
>> On 10/12/20 8:25 AM, Douglas Barry wrote:
>>> I've been up to my eyes fighting a local planning aberration - hence my lacklustre recent photography - but had to take my camera to do something in relation to the appeal.
>>>
>>> Because of a slight access difficulty, I decided to use one of my Pentax lens collection - the M series 2.8/120 on a Fotodiox adaptor. The lens seemed to work well enough on my various film Pentaxes, but I'm not too sure about it on the Sony. Maybe I'll have to upscale the adaptor quality? Thoughts? I'm also not excited by the Fotodiox on my Leica lenses.
>>>
>>> This is virtually the same size as it came out of the camera, but tilted .05  to level the horizon and minimally cropped to lose the blank bits. The  image also had auto light levels applied, additional colour saturation boost of 8 and was sharpened to 41 all in PSE, as it certainly didn't look great straight out of the camera.
>>>
>>> Kite surfing etc. taken at sewage outlet at West Pier, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin close to Seapoint swimming area.
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/CoVid-19/Kite+Surfing+Dublin+Bay+1+10_10_20.jpg.html  
>>>
>>> Sony A7II and Pentax-M 120/2.8 glass. Shot at either f8 or f11 1/1600s at ISO 320. Detail can be seen at larger size.
>>>
>>> Douglas
>>>
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>> -- 
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
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