Green roads give character to an area and provide a link to our past as well as being incredibly scenic.
Such scenes make some of my favourite landscape photography images. Empty of people, early in the day or late in the evening and dramatic lighting.
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Below, a blue hour image from the coast.
Even from those who have been here, the scenery is more reminiscent of tropical locales such as the Serengeti in Tanzania.
It's no secret that the West of Ireland is one of Panoramic Ireland's favourite places.
Join me in 2024 to photograph in the beautiful scenic surroundings of Galway, Mayo, Sligo and Donegal.
Here, the first sunset of 2024 in the west as the sun heads for the horizon.
We've had the solstice on December 22nd, 2023 and around now, early January we see the mornings getting brighter earlier here in Ireland.
The winter solstice marks the shortest day of the year and from then on the sunset gets a little later until the start of January when sunrises also become a little earlier.
So, lots to look forward to even though January and February are the coldest months on average in Ireland.
The days continue to get longer.
Panoramic Ireland's photography workshops and tours are running right through the coldest months, the spring and the warmest months of the year in Ireland - all year round - Join me when you visit Ireland.
I'm sure there is some statistical analysis that can be done to predict whether a leaf will fall from its petiole, 20 metres to the ground, to land and become part of the photographer's image or be swiftly carried along by the stream which is fast-flowing and narrow, wide and slow in places, to flow towards the sea.
Or indeed to be thrown on to a rock and deposited there as higher water recedes.
The green moss here vibrant from recent wet weather, the same precipitation that feeds the stream and helps to bring those dried leaves to the ground.
And it's a scenic sight, reds and greens saturating this small corner of the Irish countryside.