I spent a few days up in Donegal in mid August and thankfully I was greeted with some truly stunning conditions, the images and the story behind them can be viewed on the vlog below.
In The Field | Spectacular, Donegal
The lates vlog is now live on my YouTube page. This edition sees me out along the Rosguill Peninsula photographing a location I never knew existed before. Needless to say the location is spectacular I will be back. Check the video out at the link below:
In The Field | Donegal Hills
The Donegal Hills overlooking Lough Greenan is the location of my latest “In The Field” vlog on YouTube - check it out below.
Donegal Photography Workshop
Early October 2014 saw me back in my home from home "Donegal" leading the second of my photo landscape photography workshops. Mother nature put on a spectacular display of beauty, some of the images from the tour can be viewed on Storehouse.co at the following URL Donegal Autumnal Photo Tour. Well worth checking out.
In the Field - Lough Greenan, Donegal
Lough Greenan - Donegal
It is 10 mins before 4am, and for the second morning in a row I am slipping out of a cottage, into the mist. A short while later, high above Lough Greenan I’m walking back and forth up across the mountain bog, chasing compositions that so far remain unseen.
A little after 4.30am, as the Donegal landscape wakens below, the first frames are exposed. In my heart of hearts I know the image doesn't work. My initial reaction is to shoot a panoramic, but grand vistas can be difficult to pull off, in this instance there is too much going on, as is so often the case in landscape photography, less is more. So instead of chasing pictures I compose and wait.
Shortly before 5a.m, a ghostly mist, eerily floats in beneath a distant Crockmore, weaving its fingers across the landscape. Eight seconds @ F11 later, and with the midges tasting breakfast, an abstract moment of reality appears on the LCD. I'm happy; it is great to exposing pixels at this time of the morning again!!
Donegal, a photographer’s paradise! - Keep an eye out for details of my 2014 Donegal workshop which will appear online soon. Or sign up for my mailing list to receive details direct to your inbox.