I have led photographic tours and workshops to Ireland’s West Coast for many years, and before this last one I went out to the end of the Dingle Peninsula to scout some new locations, since it had been a few years since I had last been there. After carefully looking at Google Earth, I decided I wanted to visit the ruins of Dun Moran Castle, which sit atop Dunmore Head. I had never been up to these ruins and wanted to see if they were a suitable place to bring a group of photographers. After hunting around, I was unable to find a route up to them without crossing private property, so I finally sent my drone up to take a look. That turned out to be a good way to see them, and a few nights later the evening weather forecast looked like it would be benign, so I flew up there for late afternoon and sunset, which turned out to be spectacular.
I spent quite a bit of time and several batteries before capturing this last composition of the evening as the sun was just setting. Dun Moran Castle is in the foreground, and the headlands called the Three Sisters, along with the rest of the tip of the Dingle Peninsula, are in the distance. These magnificent headlands are one of Ireland’s westernmost points of land. I was grateful to be there on a rare calm and perfect evening.
