Creating swell pictures on the Irish coastline

A photographer devoted to capturing the Irish coastline, tells Richard Fitzpatrick about his close encounters with waves

It is surprising what you can learn from the sea. Chris May spent five years cataloguing the wonder of the Dingle Peninsula with his manual camera, and discovered all kinds of remarkable things along the way.

“I’ve learned the sea can be the colour of a can of Guinness. It’s certainly not green,” he says. “I’ve learned sands have tides, that the best waves are born in Greenland, and only weeks later do they flower on our shores.