With being sick and then just getting behind on everything, I’ve managed to miss two weekends so this is a catch-up instalment with three related shots. When ever I get behind and have to do multiple shots within one post I always try to pick photos that are in some way related to each other. In this case the link is that they were all taken during the single most beautiful sunset I have ever seen, on St. Patrick’s Day this year. The first two are both silhouettes of the beautiful ruins of Taghadoe church and round tower on the outskirts of Maynooth, and the thirds is a long exposure shot of cars driving off into the sunset on the M4 motorway just outside Maynooth.

The last shot was tonemapped to recover detail in the sky, but the other two are mostly as they came out of the camera with just a few tweaks in Aperture. As beautiful as these shots are, the real sunset was even more beautiful and inspiring. Just one evening like that a year is enough to make up for all the times I’ve been rained out in Ireland.

Taghadoe Round Tower
on Flickr – Full-Size

  • Camera: Nikon D40
  • Lens: Nikon DX AFS 18-55mm (D40 kit lens)
  • Exposure: 1/640 sec
  • Focal Length: 46mm
  • Focal Ratio: f/5.3
  • ISO: 200
  • Camera Mode: Aperture Priority
  • Exposure Bias: -1.0ev

Taghadoe Round Tower
on Flickr – Full-Size

  • Camera: Nikon D40
  • Lens: Nikon DX AFS 18-55mm (D40 kit lens)
  • Exposure: 1/1600 sec
  • Focal Length: 18mm
  • Focal Ratio: f/5
  • ISO: 200
  • Camera Mode: Aperture Priority
  • Exposure Bias: -2.0ev

Sunset Over the M4
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  • Camera: Nikon D40
  • Lens: Nikon DX AFS 18-55mm (D40 kit lens)
  • Exposure: 1/2 sec
  • Focal Length: 18mm
  • Focal Ratio: f/22
  • ISO: 200
  • Camera Mode: Manual Mode