Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/08/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Having just visited Dublin last month, the locations are now familiar to me :-) Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA > On 6 Aug 2019, at 01:24, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > > Here are some images from the Liffey Swim - a 2.2 kilometre race that for > the past 100 years has made its way down the river Liffey as it passes > through the centre of Dublin on its way to the Irish Sea. As the river is > not exactly the cleanest place to swim, although it is the most iconic, > the races are held when the tide is high, and thus pollution is minimised. > An old joke goes "How many prizes are there in the Liffey Swim? First > Prize, Second Prize, and everybody in the race gets the Turd Prize". > > There are two separate races for men and women as the races are handicaps > and can become a bit of a melee passing under the twelve bridges on the > course. With the handicapping system, the slowest go first, and the > fastest last, so the aim is to have all the swimmers arriving at the > finish line at the Customs House together. While such a scenario never > actually happens, this can create a problem going under those bridges > where the span is made up of narrow and low arches. Legs and arms trash in > the competitive frenzy. Goggles and swim hats can be kicked off in the > scrum, and it's not unheard of to hear of displaced dentures sinking to > the bottom. > > While I did triathlons myself back in the '80s which involved long sea > swims, I have never done the Liffey Swim, but as a 70 year old finished > third at the weekend, maybe there's still time :-) I haven't even been > spectating at the Swim for fifty years as the last time I saw it was in > the summer of '69 when I was working in Webbs bookshop on the quays, so my > knowledge of its photographic vantage points was limited. As I had put my > Pentax adapter in a safe place I couldn't use the 200mm lens and had to > use my Sonnar 55mm f1.8 to get max sharpness. > > Here are some images from the day. Click on The Liffey Swim in this album > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Sport/ > > Douglas > > who found the Pentax adapter almost as soon as I got home... > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information