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January 2007
God loves a tryer. I think that’s what my mother used to say to me. Those of you who lend their hand to landscape photography will know it can be a hit and miss affair. All the best planning will go to waste if Mother Nature is not willing to play her part. So after patience, stubbornness is a characteristic that is needed for landscape photography.
Rising at hideous hours for images that may never materialise. Returning to the same locations over and over again, hoping that magical moment will finally materialise. Portrane on the east coast of Ireland is a place that I have returned to again and again over the years. Many mornings I have spent only to be frustrated along the craggy shore, waiting for magical moments that never happen.
However last weekend, under cold frosty morning skies, Mother Nature took pity on me as I stood spread eagled between two rocks, and let the morning magic happen before my lens.
The light before the sun gets up can be unpredictable. However on this occasion it was perfect. Lambay Island lay in the distance, its shore surrounded by a light mist. The craggy rocks in the foreground snake out to the Irish Sea like some creature hiding before the sun gets up. A ten second exposure at F13 blurring the ocean surface; an effect you either love or hate.
Happy snapping folks!