(Long Overdue) Images from Family Trip to Ireland and Northern Ireland

I just added a handful of images from a 2023 family vacation to Ireland. The seven images I have decided to share range from the broad landscape to the small detail. This was not a focused photography trip, rather the perfect example of bringing the camera along when sightseeing, looking for whatever scene may catch your eye. The first image, "Textural Spine", was captured when by the oceanside at a cliff overlook. While the cliffs and ocean were the primary view, it was when I looked back towards the land that this composition caught my eye. The strong spine running through the middle, and how the house was framed and illuminated, made for a moment worth capturing. 

Textural Spine The two images below capture the lushness in nature that I wasn't exactly expecting to find when I embarked on the trip (a trip for which I admittedly had done very little research for!). These images were captured during short nature hikes, and are both scenes in which the light made all the difference in making me reach for my camera. The first one was captured at Killarney National Park, with the light compensating for the low water flow. 

Killarney Greens The is image was captured at the end of a nature hike, as we were getting into the car to drive away, and noticing the low light illuminating this stand of trees across the road. This was captured at 200mm:

On the Emerald Isle I did manage to set up for a couple of sunset images, one at Horn Head on the north coast of Ireland, and one at Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland. In both cases I set up for an 'old times sake' wide-angle sunset shot, the kind I used to shoot all the time a few years back. These images were taken as 12mm and 11mm respectively:

Geometric Geology Horn Head Sunset To wrap up my share, I am including a couple of texture images from the trip, edited as monochrome. We spent quite a bit of time by the ocean, and while most of them didn't work out, I took a good amount of texture detail images. The first one I am sharing is a simple sand texture with pebble accents, found at a beach. The varying color of the sand creates a strong shading contrast when converted to black and white:

Monochrome Pebbles The last image is my best attempt at capturing the famous hexes at the Causeway. It is a simple image, captured about an hour before sunset, just before setting up for the Causeway sunset shared above.

Giant's Hex That's all for today. I am hoping to soon be sharing other long-overdue images that have been sitting in my drive for years, as well as some brand new images captured in the last few months (as I am finally starting circling back to doing a little more photography again!)

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