I mentioned earlier in the week that a couple of weekends ago I played a flying visit to Galway. The purpose of the visit was to visit Michael and Donna who had recently welcomed the arrival of their first born, a beautiful baby girl. With a week away fast approaching we knew if we didn’t get to Galway that weekend we wouldn’t get there for a while. Besides, the weather was lovely, and Galway is always worth a visit on a nice day.
Michael and Donna have appeared on the blog in the past, and we’re frequent guests at their house near Monivea. Adjacent to their house is a field where, for some time, a site was for sale. I used to joke that the site was going to be my path to mortgage-free living, with plans to sell our property in Dublin, use the equity we had built up to buy the site and build a house on it.
Not that it was ever even realistic, but how times have changed!
Anyway, before we left for Dublin on our last visit, having satisfied ourselves that baby Siún was indeed as cute as had been reported, I stopped to take a photograph of the sun setting beyond that field.
I manually exposed the shot, deliberately keeping the trees in the foreground in silhouette, and being careful to keep detail in all areas of the sky. The final image is simple, but, I like to think, effective, and I chose the composition to ensure that the shot is predominately about the sunset. The inclusion of the trees is simply to add a little foreground interest, and I suppose some scale.
My plans to watch the sun set at this spot every evening, free of the burdens of a mortgage, are even less feasible than they ever were (and they weren’t ever really feasible), but I suppose I can always console myself with this photograph.
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