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Date Taken:	2009-Jul-16 12:29
Date Uploaded:	2009-Aug-16 22:43

Béal Bocht

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Des Lavelle is a legend in his own lifetime. Des and his wife Pat have welcomed people to Valentia Island for many many years. Des has written books on the area and on the Skelligs. He has appeared on numerous TV programmes. His boat, the Béal Bocht still makes the daily trip to the Skelligs, sometimes with Des skippering or more likely, as in this photo, with another Valentia man, Kav, at the helm. Des can be contacted through his site at:http://www.skelligboattrips.com/.

Comments

# by aafke on 2009-Aug-16

that's a nice tribute

# by very snappy on 2009-Aug-16

great capture

# by keithjack on 2009-Aug-16

Super shot Danny, thanks for uploading the large size

# by Paul Taylor on 2009-Aug-17

Agree, a great capture!

# by dakar on 2009-Aug-17

Super timing, great atmospheric capture. Love it!

# by jackie on 2009-Aug-17

Great capture

# by Valentia on 2009-Aug-17

Thanks folks. This was as lucky as you can get. The splash happened just as I pressed the shutter ;-)

# by Hazel on 2009-Aug-17

great shot

# by Kathleen on 2009-Aug-17

Beautiful & brilliant shot!

# by derekmcauley on 2009-Aug-17

Great shot and super timing on the shutter voted

# by twixie on 2009-Aug-17

You've been Twittered: http://twitter.com/pixie/status/3360642148

# by niamhcsmith on 2009-Aug-17

Beautiful pic, I love it. Well done :)

# by Bohoe on 2009-Aug-17

Brilliant!

# by jennyrusks on 2009-Aug-17

Lovely and full of life! Congrats on the totd.

# by liamp on 2009-Aug-17

grreat action shot, and i especially like that you can see the skipper clearly,also nice written piece on Des, sure hell be proud of that one

# by sarahtheissen on 2009-Aug-17

Loving the dynamic and dof. Congratulations on the totd as well :)

# by Valentia on 2009-Aug-17

Thanks everyone and Pixie for the TOTD. I brought up the light on the cabin in Lightroom. If you look at the large version you can see Kav's characteristic grin ;-)

# by aafke on 2009-Aug-17

a second set of compliments, danny. congratz on the pick-of-the-day!

# by Davids Pics on 2009-Aug-17

Congrats on the totd. nice pic

# by liamp on 2009-Aug-17

ya was even better in the original size, its amazing how clear his face his from so far away .... can i ask you what kind of gear you used for that and also i have lightroom but not sure how you lit up just the cabin part,did you have to make a seperate picture ??? its very effective... congrats again

# by MiPiX on 2009-Aug-17

Was this taken in the channel between Portmagee and Valentia, some great rugged scenary is that boat trip around there, met Des many years ago , one sound man.

Great shot too well captured.

# by MickS on 2009-Aug-17

Brilliant shot Danny, very well done! Congrats too! :)

Mick.

# by DangerMouse on 2009-Aug-17

Well captured and well deserved TOTD!

# by Valentia on 2009-Aug-17

@ liamp; I used a 100-400 lens for this on a 40D. In lightroom Develop mode there is an adjustment brush on the top left. I selected this and painted in the window of the boat. While this was still selected I increased the exposure so that Kav's face became clear. It's a fantastic and easy tool to use.

@MiPiX: It was taken just after leaving the protection of Bray head. Just into the Atlantic where the waves became a bit choppy. It wasn't as bad as it looks here though. I was lucky enough to get the only splash that the boat made.

Thanks again everyone.

# by morrisseeee on 2009-Aug-18

Great capture. PS....that wasn't luck, thats called............skill ;)

# by liamp on 2009-Aug-18

thanks for the info valentia, very helpful, i am using lightroom 1.4 and as far as i can see there is no adjustment brush , is your version newer?

# by Valentia on 2009-Aug-18

Yes Liam. The brush is not in version 1. You can download a 30 day fully working copy of version 2 from the Adobe site to try out. It's worth the move though as usual Adobe try to rob you to upgrade.