Photo of the Week - 23/03/25

I feel like in these first few months of this year, the weeks are just flying by. I have skipped these posts for the last few weeks and am finally catching up with my weekly posts in this series.

Whenever I have an airport run scheduled very early, I try and use it as an opportunity to add a sunrise photoshoot to the early morning trip. This week, after dropping my wife to the airport, I decided to re-visit one of my favourite places for sunset - Galley Head Lighthouse. When I arrived there around 6am I had about half an hour to decide on a frame for when the sun would rise.

The howling cold wind took my breath away as I got out of the car. I donned my parka, grabbed my bag and tripod and headed down to the water’s edge where the waves were breaking over the rocks.

I settled for a shot in the direction of the lighthouse with the rocky fingers of the headland on which it sits reaching out into the water and the moon still visible in the upper right part of the frame. I decided to go with a long exposure photo to give the image a sense of calm - because despite the strong wind and crashing waves, there was something very calm about the place.

Once the sun was up and the colour in the sky faded away, I packed my camera away and was about to head away - but then I stopped and just sat down on a grass covered rock an just whiled about a few precious minutes of doing nothing.

Galley Head Lighthouse. West Cork, Ireland