A serenely scenic morning photographing at the lake at sunrise as the Sun rises over the small wooded island with its ruined tower reflecting in the calm waters. 

You never know what you will get with a sunrise, the weather plays a big part in how a location will look and in this case it was worth the effort to make sunrise on this photography workshop.

On this occasion the sky was clear before sunrise but a gentle, consistent breeze started as the daylight began and brought cloud across the lakeside scene.

Afterwards it was on to photograph bluebells in the Irish woodlands.

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There is some wild weather on the way for Ireland this week, stormy winds and rain.

I am planning a visit to the west of Ireland soon and have been looking through images from previous visits.

Here I found this one from 2014 when the late evening sun, partially obscured by fast moving clouds, momentarily illuminated the rocky mountainsides above the lake.

It probably wouldn't be a bad place for a swim, but on this occasion photographing along the entire west coast of Ireland was the endeavour.

Next visit will be for photography as well, but maybe after that a little bit of time to have a picnic and a stroll or even swimming in this fine mountain valley lake.

Why not join me to photograph in Ireland's wild landscapes or in Dublin.

A quiet video from the west of Ireland.

Using my Garmin Virb in its inbuilt timelapse mode I set it up at the edge of a lake in one of my favourite locations.

Here in the west of Ireland, the large lake and sunset provides plenty of inspiration to the photographer and artist and it is a location that I have photographed often. Some of the last sunsets of 2014 I watched and photographed from this location.

An afternoon in the west of Ireland with sun rays and waves from a Galway lake.

I waited as the camera exposed a few long exposures and afterwards set a faster shutter speed to capture the sunlight bursting through the clouds. Alongside this I captured a timelapse of various lake scenes from the west of Ireland.

This video is a timelapse taken on one stormy November afternoon in 2014.