I'm currently planning an early start tomorrow morning, working on recent landscape images for a client when I look out of the window to see the post-sunset sky ablaze with colour.

Sometimes I get asked where the background image to my Twitter account is from. 

The answer is that I have photographed donkeys all over Ireland, from the Burren in County Clare to lovely Inistioge in County Kilkenny but this donkey was one that I met on a back road in South Armagh.

I have been photographing a lot of sunsets in the past few weeks, from my native Northern Ireland to the west of Ireland.

No two sunsets are ever the same, winds pick up and clouds arrive to enhance or spoil your capture. Rain blows in sideways and spatters your filter with water droplets, the wind rattles your tripod no matter how much you try to shelter your camera your exposure is shaky.

It is tricky sometimes, but not always. Patience and perseverence are always well rewarded in photography.

This image is from sunset this evening (25/10/2013) in the west of Ireland, it is from Lough Corrib, Ireland's second largest lake.

GAA Football All-Ireland Final 2013

Mayo face Dublin in the capital's Croke Park tomorrow, Sunday 22nd September 2013.