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.
On those rainy, cloudy days where the sun really doesn't make an appearance the light is still great for photography.
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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.