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.
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.