Sunsets over Kildare

Well it's early spring, and the days have been beautifully crisp and dry over the last few days - leading to some wonderful sunsets. I've tried to capture them, and here's one for you to enjoy.



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And here's another one, with some birds.



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Galway Bay - or, the Atlantic Ocean...

A view from Salthill. Further to my previous post, I have been hacking through the images I took from Salthill on Saturday. There was a nice wintry sun, and a pretty impressive breeze, but the sea was quite well behaved and calm! So here's a few I took and am reasonably happy with...









I thought I'd add the last one to Etsy for kicks...

More to come from Salthill, and a few in and around Galway city. It really is a very picturesque place, and you don't have to go far out of the lovely city to find the wilds of Connemara and the Atlantic Ocean.

January skies

There is a stretch in the evening... Heading towards 5pm this evening, I caught these beautiful colours as I left the office. Both Venus and Jupiter were visible, very bright objects in the early evening sky. I'm not sure they are visible in the pic above though.

X marks the spot - the bright spot just below and to the left of the intersecting contrails is Venus. The contrails were moving across the sky (as they are wont to do, being clouds) and I was hoping the centre might pass over Venus - unfortunately I couldn't get that angle!
Maybe next time.

Back to Black and White

I had a bit of time with the photos this morning, and I picked one from the holiday in California last year to see how effective it would look in black and white. This was taken down a country road well off the highway (we were looking for horse-stables) and the United States Postal Service obviously don't go too far off the beaten track because all these mailboxes (post boxes?) were together at a junction!

I'm happy with it, think it worked quite well. I have it on my etsy shop for sale, wondering if it will attract much interest? 

In other news, we went for a bite to eat in Kildare this evening, and the Silken Thomas is now serving Crean's lager - a very enjoyable (and Irish-brewed) and reasonably priced alternative to Big Lager. I highly recommend it!