Slive League Sunset - Mainland Ireland's Highest Marine Cliffs

On my recent odyssey along the coast of Ireland, I visited the magnificent cliffs at Slieve League in County Donegal, part of Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way.

After a manic few weeks that saw me meeting the President of Ireland, photographing some of the biggest artists around at Electric Picnic and leading many tours including a 10-day coastal odyssey along the coast of Ireland, my first visit back to what is one of my favourite locations allowed me to take some time and relax with golden light and calm conditions.

Panoramic Ireland's photography experiences have proved to be very popular this summer and I am just back from a 10-day tour of Ireland's coastline with Linda K. from the USA.

Another tour of Connemara

After a few weeks of travelling (more to come on that) I am back in Ireland and led a photo tour in Connemara with MC from New Zealand last week.

The weather was fine, stormy at times and very windy in places but with plenty of cloud action to keep the skies interesting.

There is certainly no doubt that Panoramic Ireland loves photographing Ireland and there is also no doubt that Galway is one of the favourite places for Panoramic Ireland to photograph.

Like most things in Ireland, our waterfalls are not the tallest, most powerful or biggest in Europe or the world but they are certainly very characterful.

Often hidden on seacliffs or miles away from the nearest road, waterfalls in Ireland take two forms. There are the famous and not famous.

The famous waterfalls are Torc in County Kerry, Glenarriff in County Antrim, Powerscourt in County Wicklow and Aasleagh Falls on the border of County Mayo and County Galway. Glencar Waterfall in County Leitrim is the one made famous by W.B. Yeats. All the rest are the not-so famous waterfalls.

The elusive pine marten (martes martes) is the rarest of Ireland's mammals and along with our smallest, the pygmy shrew, is the one that most people are least likely to have encountered in Ireland.

Shy creatures, the pine marten is usually active at night, however I have observed them mostly during bright daylight.

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.

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Long Exposure Photography

A stormy day in the west of Ireland with best conditions after dark

A long day in Connemara, one of my favourite places in Ireland. A place that I could never get tired of and a great location for landscape and seascape photography. Beautiful.