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Where Ocean Meets Sky, Seascape from Ireland's Atlantic Coast
Ireland is not short of fantastic coastlines and of course as an Irish landscape photographer seascapes make up an important part of my collecton.
It should come as no surprise too that for the workshops and tours that I organise throughout Ireland, I recommend the coast often and get asked about the coast.
Here, a scene from a cloudy evening. After finishing up photographing some more well-known scenes from the Irish coast we set our sights on a tranquil scene of a calm Atlantic Ocean.
This image is one of my favourites from the evening's workshop.
Join me, Panoramic Ireland, on a photography workshop to Ireland's sometimes wild and sometimes serene coast all year round.
Golden Hour at the Coast, Coastal Landscape Photography in Ireland
Blue hour and golden hour are the ideal times of day for coastal landscape photography.
Here, a small sea stack and vertical cliffs on Ireland's Atlantic coast catch the end of the evening's direct light, the warmth of which lends its name to the time of day - the golden hour as the light half of the year ends in Ireland.
Panoramic Ireland run seascape and landscape photography classes, workshops and tours all year round and right through the winter in Ireland.
To find out more use the contact page or email me.
There's a magic to be had photographing landscapes, a dependence upon the weather and, at the coast, the tide.
Planning for time of day, to catch the golden hour and the tide at the right time of course takes some of the uncertainty away but the Irish weather can provide interesting challenges.
Sunset Seascape, Start of Winter in Ireland
As I mentioned in a previous post, in Irish tradition the winter has started with the beginning of the dark half of the year after Halloween.
But that doesn't mean that Ireland is not a destination for off season travel, on the contrary, with fewer crowds and some of the best light the months of November through to March are ideal for seascape photography in Ireland.
Here as well as shooting with the sun, we turned to photograph the sea cliffs with the sun setting behind.
It is a difficult photograph to shoot a landscape like this contre-jour but the movement and colour in the sky, coupled with some good post-processing has resulted in a fine image that is in contrast to shooting with the sun and its clear light (image coming soon in a subsequent post).
Making use of the texture and feeling of this deserted Irish beach at sunset.
I will be regularly running seascape photography workshops throughout the winter in Ireland, for more information contact me through the contact page or send me an email (up at the top of the page).
Offshore Wave, Ireland's Coast
Standing atop steep cliffs high above the Atlantic Ocean, I watched the power of the incoming swell as it met subsurface changes.
A fairly calm ocean on a warm, late spring day yet this power came from almost nowhere.
It looks small just like a small crashing wave but, for scale, a guillemot flying low over the surging white water helps to illustrate the magnitude of just this one tiny part of the Atlantic.
Blue Hour Seascape, Ireland
Blue hour, especially the morning blue hour, is a special time for photography. At this time of year in Ireland photographing the coast before sunrise to capture that time when all appears blue, before the strength of the summer sun shines from beyond the horizon requires an early start.
It doesn't always look like this, indeed the heavy cloud seen here that adds to this image later became a block to the golden light of sunrise off the Irish coast.
But with this image from 04:15 in July, calm conditions were at least a bonus compared to previous days at Antrim's Giant's Causeway and over in the west in County Mayo.
Guillemots Gathered in their Masses
A recent visit to the coast brought me to a seabird sanctuary where I photographed many types of wild birds including puffins, razorbills, fulmars and guillemots.
This image, and the others below, made me think of the famous Black Sabbath song War Pigs with its lyrics changed to "Guillemots gathered in their masses, just like witches at black masses..."
Guillemots breed on land between May and September in Ireland, laying eggs directly on to rock - no grassy ledge or built nest.
Recent weeks have seen me photographing nightlife rather than wildlife at many concerts in Dublin and Belfast, including Whitesnake, Queen and Bryan Adams.
Don't forget that Panoramic Ireland's photo tours are running every day, in Dublin and around the coast. Join me to photograph seabirds, landscapes and streetscapes.
Castles in the Sand, Long Exposure Photography in Ireland
I have written about castles before, namely my exploration of Barrymore Castle in Castlelyons, and Cahir Castle in County Tipperary that recently played host to Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Adam Driver and Jodie Comer for the filming of Ridley Scott's The Last Duel.
Ireland is awash with castles but many are, unfortunately, barely more than a single stone.
This is a two part image, in the lower-middle incoming waves meld into bluey-green and white bands over the course of the exposure and to the bottom returning water ripples remain consistent, in the top half of the image slow-moving white and grey clouds barely move against the azure sky.
In long exposure photography we are looking to use movement in at least one part of the image, here that is in the bottom half more so than the top.
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Wave Spray Rainbow in the Surf
Every so often a little bit of colour catches your eye, here by the coast of Ireland I noticed every breaking wave and its spray carrying a rainbow of colour towards the white cliffs of the Antrim Coast.
Rainbows are usually fleeting, relying on a mixture of sunshine and water vapour meeting at the correct angle to create the separation of light into its constituent wavelengths - for us we see the visible spectrum of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
Rainbows can occur anywhere, as seen here in the wave spray or on top of a mountain in a ringed glory, in urban settings and in fine autumnal scenes.
Winter Seascape Photography in Ireland
It's winter now and my mind turns to coastal landscapes.
Here, one from the Antrim Coast of Sheep Island.
Crashing waves batter both sides of the small island, for millennia a well known landmark off this part of the Causeway Coast but now more famous from its appearance in HBO's Game of Thrones.
Sheep Island rises some 30 metres above the North Atlantic with mostly sheer cliffs, a thin layer of soil on top gives a green colour particularly in spring. In centuries past, local farmers would graze sheep out here being able to land only on the calmest of days.
Some doubt that landing a vessel here with sheep is possible, but on a calm day and good local knowledge this would be a difficult, but not impossible, task.
Sheep Island is home to a large proportion of Ireland's population of the northern European sub-species of cormorant and is a protected habitat.
You can just see the coast of Scotland, faintly on the horizon under the grey cloud to the right of Sheep Island in this image.
October in Ireland, Sunshine at the Coast
The myth that Ireland suffers from bad weather year round, especially outside of the summer months, is definitely not true.
Autumn and Winter in Ireland can be full of fine, clear and bright weather, just like in this image from the spectacular coastline. Low tide exposes golden sands as a small stream slowly trickles towards the steady motion of small waves.
This coastline is full of sea stacks and crags and while it looks peaceful here it can be stormy too.
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