Have you been to Killarney in winter?

If you visit Ireland in the winter the weather may not be the best, but it always throws up beautiful light that makes landscape photography such a delight.

Here the lakes and mountains of the Killarney National Park with snow-capped peaks and fishing boats at the end of winter. On the day that I was here with Tim, a computer programmer from Dublin we waited alomst two hours at this location as several fishermen came and went, the light changed from dull to patches of sunlight. 

Sometimes with landscape photography you want to cover several locations but on this day we were happy to get out the tripods, filters and in my case a Canon 5D Mk III and 24-70mm f2.8L lens. Tim was using a Nikon, and during the few hours we were at this location we talked about the two camera systems. We also worked on some panoramic images but the image above is my personal favourite from the day.

It makes me want to head straight back down there but of course that clear winter light and snow on the mountains will be long gone.

Have you been to Killarney? I would like to see some of your images if you have been to County Kerry; if you want to have an image on the website please send them to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..