IPKSA

The IPKSA event I attended back in February at Streedagh Beach, Co. Sligo. It was one of the better days for February also coming out of the long cold Winter too! Streedagh is a beautiful beach but is also masked in history! On their way to invade England three ships from the Spanish Armada fleet were caught up in a deadly storm off the North-West coast. They came in closer to the coast to take shelter from it but from not knowing the waters they couldn't tell where it was dangerous to go. As a result one ship was grounded and the others were thrown up onto the rocks and broken up.There was  jewels and gold on board of the ship. The beach is now protected because people would come with metal detectors etc to try and dig up whatever treasure they could find. Every now and then when the tides shift the sands you can see some of the remains of the ships sticking out of the strand.

©Sarah Townsend

Bird of Prey,Flying High

  Fred and Pip out Kiteboarding in Rosses Point, Co. Sligo during the Summer! Kiteboarding as a sport has picked up recently in Sligo for one my brother Pip took it up and is always on the water now. The school http://www.lsdkiteboarding.com was where my brother got his lessons from! Peter and Eamon Armstrong are the teachers that run the school and have been involved with water sports for years. They even thought me how to sail. You can find them teaching almost everyday of the summer season out at Rosses Point.

©Sarah Townsend

Streams

These are a few long exposure photo's I took a while ago. It was pretty experimental but some of them turned out better then expected! The funniest thing was that they were taken in the changing rooms of my previous schools gym. We got some looks because four girls going into a changing room with a camera...yeah.

©Sarah Townsend

Origins

People all ways ask why the pineapple? It's simple I just love them. Of course that's that the only reason! It all happened when I was younger and got the news that a friend of mine couldn't come meet me one day. I was already in Tesco at that point and I saw the last pineapple all alone in the box. So I decided to buy it and put it in place of my friend around the different hangouts in town and take photos of it. I began to see pineapples as a type of logo in how people could remember me and my photography.