After a busy week I can now appreciate the crepuscles and with a rainy few days the sun finally made a brief appearance below the cloud base just before sunset in the west of Ireland.

The lower sky was illuminated with hues of orange and red while the top remained blue and evening-like both portions reflecting in the calm waters of the lake, windless and magical.

The sun has set on 2014 and we are now in 2015, Happy New Year!

Cliffs of Moher at Sunset

I previously wrote about my visit to Slieve League in County Donegal, the highest marine cliffs in Ireland, along with the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare are part of the Wild Atlantic Way that runs for 2,500km along Ireland's western seaboard.

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.

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.

Panorama taken at sunset in the west of Ireland. This is one of many panoramic images of Ireland's West that I have been taking recently. In a previous post I explained what makes a panoramic image panoramic.

I have been photographing a lot of sunsets in the past few weeks, from my native Northern Ireland to the west of Ireland.

No two sunsets are ever the same, winds pick up and clouds arrive to enhance or spoil your capture. Rain blows in sideways and spatters your filter with water droplets, the wind rattles your tripod no matter how much you try to shelter your camera your exposure is shaky.

It is tricky sometimes, but not always. Patience and perseverence are always well rewarded in photography.

This image is from sunset this evening (25/10/2013) in the west of Ireland, it is from Lough Corrib, Ireland's second largest lake.

An evening at the coast, there's something about the smell of the sea, the bracing winds and walking over pebbles and rocks.