Hi Allister - I did indeed use a similar shot before - but I thought they were different enough to warrant a separate post - the one you remember is Photo of the Week 116 & 117 – Big Summer Skies.

In that shot I intentionally removed most of the rural setting to give a feeling of the vast expanse of the summer sky with as few distractions at ground level as possible. This shot is very much the inverse, the sky is not the main star, the lovely rural Irish landscape is, filled with natural beauty and lots and lost of history.

Bart.