February 2008

New years eve and I am in Bunbeg Co Donegal. A Gaeltacht area where Irish is still widely spoken.
New years eve saw me spend the day seeking out new locations around North Donegal. With the evening closing in, and after scrambling across the back roads of Bloody Foreland I was then situ at the waters edge on the beautiful beach at Bunbeg. Photographically speaking I could not ask for more. The colours in the sky are wondeful and their reflections in an almost still Atlantic ocean are stunning.
Dunbeg Sunset

These wonderful colours reflecting in the ocean are the subject of my attention. Apart from my tripod sinking into the sand, getting a composition that works was my biggest problem. Reflections aren’t always easy to photograph. If there is no sense of compostion the image simply will not work no matter what the environment is like.

To get a composition that worked I wanted to get the lens as close as possible to the surface of the water. In doing so it allowed me to use the patterns in the sand to draw the viewers eye into the scene as they fade into the depths.

Not a bad way to finish 2007.