March-May 2025: A Photo Marathon
Going into this, I didn’t think I’d be making another blog post like my September 2023 one. September 2023 was a crazy month for taking photos. I called the blog post “Photo after another” as that’s what it literally was. Meteorological spring 2025 (March, April and May) took this to the next level where I have to call it a photo marathon even. In fact, there has been too many moments to include in one blog post so instead of going over every single one, I am going to go through the highlights. The very best that this magnificent season had to offer. Aside from the first few, these are not in an exact order as my preference for particular images may differ on which day you ask me.
January 2025 had been an excellent month for photos with many colourful skies and the cold spell early on. February was a bit more lacklustre with an exceptional cloudy spell mid-month culminating in Dublin Airport’s equal longest streak of sunless days on record. Little did we know that spring 2025 would crank it up to 100, and give us a run of very sunny and dry weather. In fact it broke records for sunshine across Ireland including Dublin. Only five years later after the exceptionally sunny spring of 2020 which at the time smashed previous records for sunshine on the east coast of Ireland. I never thought it could be beat but here we are.
A lot of the season I focused on capturing Dublin City so there will be a few of that here in this blog post. I have done a good bit of Dublin, after all it is my home county, but I did not have much of the city captured especially well. It gets negative perception all of the time for how the government and council have destroyed it but there’s still gems to be found and I wanted to build my portfolio through the season of various parts of the city with a focus on ones I have yet to get a good photo of.
#1 – Moonset over the Samuel Beckett Bridge
I think it’s of no surprise to anybody and it goes without saying that the number one photo highlight of spring 2025 has to be the moonset over the Samuel Beckett Bridge on the morning of April 10th. This was one of the most spectacular sights I have seen to date up with my favourite moments I’ve witnessed along with the huge aurora borealis display of October 2024.
It was a few days before the full moon would appear in our skies but me and a few other photographers eyed up the chances of getting a moonset over the Samuel Beckett Bridge from the Great South Wall with a massive focal distance so the moon would appear huge in frame. This would be a continuation from when we got the sunset over the Samuel Beckett the previous year in September from the same spot. The morning of Thursday, April 10th is where it would align from the position we would need it to happen. If it was a day earlier or later, it would no longer align as the moon’s position is constantly changing in our sky and it’s not as consistently predictable as the sun which has a regular pattern of rising and setting during the year so who knows when we would get another chance for it to align as good as this. That’s not even considering the weather which is an important variable. Fortunately on this occasion, the weather was extremely kind as it coincided with a stunning period of weather and the morning mist would make it a little easier to capture as it was still a bit dark out.
Me and another photographer Riccardo (also known as Majestic Dublin) arrived on scene at the Great South Wall car park. Moonset was going to occur at 05:59 but we came at 04:30 giving us a lot of time to get into position and set up. There was a little breeze but not too bad. We got into position walking down to Poolbeg Lighthouse where the moon would align with the bridge as planned using PhotoPills. Another photographer, Karol (also known as LaBocaVista), soon arrived. We used big super telephoto lenses to compress the scene making the moon big in the photo and magnify on the bridge. Remember we’re all the way down near Poolbeg Lighthouse so the Samuel Beckett Bridge is more than 5km away. If we tried capturing with a wide angle lens like a typical landscape, you would hardly even see the bridge and the moon would be less of a focal point… we would just have a lot of water in the foreground. Use your big zoom lens to get creative with your photography. No photoshop witchery, just the same physics of using a magnifying glass.
We waited patiently for everything to fall into place. The moon got dimmer and dimmer as it approached the fog over the city on the lower horizon. It also got more colourful with the mist giving it a red colour. The little breeze was enough to rock my heavy Sigma 150-600mm lens up and down on my lightweight tripod so I needed to use a high ISO and a relatively fast shutter speed to counteract this. I had to use the camera self timer to minimise camera shake – the port in my camera is not working presumably from built up dust or sand so I was not able to use my external remote shutter. I did not have a wireless one. This meant my images came out very noisy and soft however so I was not terribly happy with my results. There was maybe two or three photos that were usable. A boat was also departing from Dublin Port which for a brief period of time obstructed our view of the moonset nearly at the perfect time in all. We thought it was game over when it started to leave the port but it stayed just to the right fortunately and we were able to get the moon. In fact I think the boat added to one of the photos for balance and symmetry. That same image was shot at a whopping 12,800 ISO.
That wasn’t all the glory that morning was going to bring us though as we walked back to the car park and the sunrise would align with North Bull Lighthouse. It was all red with a stunning mirage too. Then on the way back home, I saw mist was still covering Bull Island so you just know I had to get some images of that too. What an unforgettable morning.
If I ever get the chance to capture moonset aligned over the city like this again, I hope I have better gear. Gear does matter sometimes.
My camera capturing the moonset live at the Great South Wall. Note how small the moon is in frame when you’re not zoomed all the way in!
Moonset with my zoom lens on my iPhone. Moon is tiny because I have not zoomed in very far as the zoom lens on my phone only goes to an equivalent 77mm optically compared to 900mm on my camera!
Moonset above the Capital Dock building – a bonus shot before the real deal over the Samuel Beckett Bridge.
#2 – Dublin Bay shelfie
It was the 12th May. It was the day to capture the best moonrise of the month. Weather conditions were looking decent. Then during the evening, thunderstorms from Wales entered the Irish Sea and had Dublin’s name written all over it in the direction they were coming. As they approached, the skies looked angry with clouds undulating and shelf cloud forming. At first nothing too unusual. I was down on Clontarf seafront as that was where the moonrise would align with Poolbeg Lighthouse – a very popular photo composition at this time of year where you’ll see a load of photographers trying to capture this without fail every time. It wasn’t the best spot to be as there wasn’t much composition options from the direction the cloud was coming in. Fortunately, I had my drone with me to pull out and capture perspectives in Dublin Bay not possible with the conventional camera due to the geography of the landscape.
The sky just kept angrier until the best shelf cloud I had seen in my lifetime to date occurred. I didn’t think I would see skies like this so close to home in Dublin. If I didn’t have my drone with me, I wouldn’t have been able to get it all in its glory. Despite the clouds, the storm turned out as a non-event with only a few rumbles. Very typically the relatively cool Irish Sea killed the energy in the storm cells but can’t have it all and this shelf cloud was spectacular.
There was concerns that this downpour and cloud would completely destroy chances of seeing the moonrise but nope we got to see it and it was beautiful. It was the first evening of the year too that felt warm, felt like a blessing. It wasn’t my best moonrise though as it was a micro full moon where the moon is further away from the earth compared to a “supermoon” (proper terminology is a perigee full moon) where the opposite is the case. I used only my 70-300mm lens to compress instead of the 150-600mm as it’s easier to stabilise and I was in bit of a hurry as I rushed to Poolbeg to get a watery sunset as it looked like there would be one with a clearance on the horizon which I thought would be epic with the dark angry sky above. It wasn’t quite as dramatic as I thought it would be but still worth.
#3 – Colourful Skryne to misty Bective
One mid-April morning, I set out for an early journey to County Meath as conditions looked ripe for a colourful sky which I was seeking and mist would be a great bonus too to add to the atmosphere. I went to Skryne as I had to yet to do that location even though I have been to Tara a few times and even Kells. I had always passed Skryne but never actually gave it a chance until then. There wasn’t as much cloud as I thought there’d be when I arrived at the hill but there was a lovely pattern overhead that would certainly light up given how clear the horizon was. Indeed the sky would eventually light up after a slow half an hour as I gave myself a lot of time to set up.
Like with the Dublin Bay shelf cloud, the addition of having the drone was a big benefit as there wasn’t much of a composition I was able to get with the camera plus the tower was very distorted from having to use a wide angle lens. The drone shots were far superior to anything I managed with the DSLR. The drone allowed me to get creative and frame the sunrise in the tower as well. After that there was not much else to capture, beautiful location but not the most action packed to getting shots. However I was not finished as I looked out at the misty fields and thought I might get something else whilst conditions were still great. I ended up deciding on heading to Bective Abbey where I was looking for a misty morning to capture after I had last been there for a frosty morning in January just a few days into the new year. Keep on reading below.
I made my way to Bective Abbey. The light was still good but it was not long until golden hour was over which is when the best light is to capture landscapes without having either an overly harsh sky and dark foreground shadows especially when you’re shooting directly away from the sun. The abbey ruins were the ideal subject for a misty morning. On my way I passed many misty fields with komorebi appearing through the trees but when I got to Bective, any mist here was patchy. Nonetheless, it was enough to capture the shots I had been after. The angle of the sun was ideal directly behind the ruins compared to being far to the right as in the case of the previous morning I was there in early January. The cloud overhead added to the mood of the image capturing some of my favourite landscapes.
When I finished up here, I pondered if I would head to the Hill of Tara too since it was close by but as golden hour had well passed, I thought it would be a waste of time and I have been to Tara already a good few times as mentioned.
#4 – Dublin City out of the red?
Short one here but it was a cool cloudy April evening in Dublin. The way the weather pattern was set up with cloud coming from the east and clearer skies out west was ripe for fiery sunset skies. The previous evening, the 14th April, had the most colourful sky in a while. This evening the 15th was less bullish in if it would achieve a fiery sky as nearly all of the sky was covered. Sunset was in less than 10 minutes and there was no sign of the sky colour changing. I went up and down the quays in Dublin City at least 3 times trying to see if the sky will be good or not. I wanted to get the Four Courts or Ha’penny Bridge but neither of those were to happen as reflections weren’t perfect and as mentioned there was no sign of sunset colours coming out.
It was just dark grey then suddenly out of nowhere, there was a sharp red burst of colour. I had no time to waste in how sudden it was so I parked my car by the 3 Arena and flew the drone over the River Liffey. I used the 70mm lens to compress the scene and the colour was extreme. I had to desaturate in the final end result below. Yes you read that right, this is desaturated. It was one of the most saturated skies I’ve ever seen. It did not last long as six minutes later it was nearly all gone as quick as it came. This was crazy. You truly never know what you might get sometimes. It was a proper out of the blue (red?) scenario.
#5 Another colourful Dublin City sunset
A beautiful May evening looked prime for lovely colours in the city centre. At first I checked the Four Courts and the Ha’penny Bridge as they were on the bucket list to getting a perfect sunset of fiery colours and reflections in the Liffey. There wasn’t much to be had at the Ha’penny, the sky was a little too clear and reflections were minimal. I got a shot of the Four Courts with the sun beside them but the lack of reflections and the scaffolding on the dome weren’t what I had in mind for my bucket shot. Still nice to have I guess and I edited the photo to make it look almost old fashioned with a sepia-ish look which I think suits this part of the city.
Once I finished up here, I went down to the Docklands instead and maybe get some more shots of the Samuel Beckett Bridge or something which like Poolbeg Lighthouse is a great composition to fall back on when you don’t have other ideas.
I bumped into two other photographers who were beginners looking for tips so I gave them some tips and had a chat whilst waiting on the sky to glow. When it did glow, they followed me to frame the Diving Bell in the foreground between the Samuel Beckett and the Convention Centre with the colourful sky overhead. I got another camera shot of the Convention Centre isolated and reflected in the Liffey. After that, I sent the drone up. I noticed the MV John Paul DeJoria, otherwise known as the Captain Paul Watson ship, which had recently docked in Dublin and it was going to soon leave again so I took a shot of it with the sky which turned out to be my favourite of the evening.
#6 – One more Dublin City sunset.. I promise, for now.
The evening in highlight #5 was not to be for my Ha’penny Bridge bucket list shot but I did not have to wait long for the next chance of a colourful sunset sky as only a week later, the next chance appeared. It had been one of the more unsettled days of the entire spring. It looked like that there could be a clearance in time for sunset and normally when that occurs, the skies can be fiery. I pondered whether it would be good enough to chance another Dublin City shoot. As mentioned I did a lot of Dublin City photography this season to build up the portfolio. I looked at the webcams and said ah sure what have I got to lose so I went in.
I went up and down the quays before parking to observe what the Liffey was like. It was calm enough for reflections, there wasn’t much in the way of breeze. There was a bit of odd breeze from time to time which I thought was game over for reflections but it was very temporary any time it did happen. So I parked and made my way up the quays in the direction of the Ha’penny Bridge from the Docklands. The first main shot of the evening was one of the Custom House and Liberty Hall perfectly reflected in the Liffey with a moody sky of colourful golden clouds overhead. This was stunning but I’ve done it many times before so nothing too special.
As I continued to walk up the quays, I took more reflection photos with O’Connell Bridge being the next main composition. This was tricky to capture as the sky was very contrasty with some dark shadows in the Liffey so the shadows are a little underexposed and part of the sky slightly overexposed which I tried to recover in post. I attempted HDR but it looked too unrealistic for my liking so I stuck with the one photo and worked from there. The bird flying by close almost is like a dragon breathing fire into the sky.
The real deal of the evening was capturing the Ha’penny Bridge which like O’Connell Bridge was proving to be more of a challenge than I thought it would be. I had the same high dynamic range issues with a bright sky and harsh shadows on the river at either side of the bridge. I also needed to capture the bridge as a panoramic to get enough of the sky and all of the bridge in frame even with a 15mm lens which was not wide enough. A pano was going to be extra tricky with the environment contrast. I pushed through and captured several attempts of doing a pano handheld. I did not bring my tripod with me as I thought it would be pointless weight which I have tried to minimise the amount of gear I bring this year so far as I have started having back problems from all the excess weight. Bringing and setting up a tripod in the city with lots of people walking by can also be a bit of a handful so unless I really need to like low light, it’s not worth it. I will sacrifice a bit of image quality if it means not having to deal with back problems in the long run or other issues that may crop up.
The final image is below. I was able to recover a lot of the details in the sky and the shadows in Lightroom but I kept some contrast as to not make it flat or HDR-y. You can still see artifacts of HDR such as on the trees which have a weird gradient of dark outlines and bright insides, you probably did not notice that until I pointed it out and now you can’t un-see it. You’re welcome. I cloned out a large crane too that was very distracting and an eyesore in the image. You can see where the crane would have been cloned out from the top of one of the buildings looking “off” at the right side of the bridge but I would rather this than the crane personally and you can always think it’s the roof of a building behind anyway just sticking out. I’m not looking only to capture a scene here as it is, I’m also trying to make it pleasing as art which a crane I don’t find particularly pleasing to look at. Another artifact you will see in the image from the HDR is the outlines on the people but you will only see this if you pixel peep.
Despite all the issues outlined with the image, I think it’s great with a perfect sky for the occasion that I can mark the Ha’penny off the bucket list. I will be returning though at some point in winter to get another fiery sky but from the opposite side of the river as the sun sets in the southwest then. Hopefully no cranes around then to mess up my image.
#7 – Portrane Sunrise
High pressure with southwesterly winds and a clearance to the east, a recipe for some great sunrise skies. 4th March was the first of a few wonderful skies that spring 2025 was going to bring. It was one of the best sunrise skies I’ve ever had the pleasure of photographing. Distinctive cloud formations, fiery colours and great light. Perfection. Portrane immediately came to mind as the location to head to for this as I had been chasing a good sunrise sky here at Tower Bay Beach for a while though I’ve only gone for it once in September 2023 when I had a colossal failure and wasted my time as the sky did not light up at all. Careful analysing of weather can help you avoid situations like this which many will say you never know until you get out. I disagree slightly though not fully as you can always wait for the perfect conditions to come before you head for the composition in your head and not waste fuel or money. Only thing with this is, you might miss out on other great conditions along the way that you might have caught if you went out otherwise and your creativity flair can be destroyed if you’re always aiming for perfection. Part of the creativity is making the most of any situation. A good photographer will always find a photo to take and if you come home with one photo then it was a successful shoot even if it wasn’t up to your standards.
I arrived at Tower Bay car park. The sky was already starting to glow, the image below was the first image I took of the scene with my phone as I got out of the car. It’s dark as it was still early in the day, half an hour before sunrise, so no detail in the foreground but that’s besides the point. You can see the sky already is very colourful.
The sky just kept getting better as more cloud approached from the west. With the power of ISO invariance and raw file editing, I was able to recover the shadows getting a great balanced exposure between the sky and foreground. I captured the beach in both portrait and landscape orientation below as I like both with each of them having a different composition strong point. For example, the footprints in the sand act as a leading line in the vertical photo but they’re not nearly as immediately evident in the landscape where you can also see more of the beach with the jetty to the boat house not cropped off.
I used the drone too to capture perspectives not possible with the conventional camera such as those below of over the water and aerial view of the water tower as well as Evan’s Tower. With a sky as vibrant as this, you can get a lot of saturated reflections on reflective surfaces such as sand and water which may not appear as realistic. At this moment in time I do not have a polariser for my camera nor my drone so a linear gradient to reduce saturation is the best I can do but arguably the first shot is still very saturated on the sand and water from the fiery sky. It goes to show just how extremely colourful it was.
#8 – Trinity College sunset
I attempted to capture the Trinity College campus and Campanile building with a sunset sky overhead of fair cloud that would light up. A clear sky would not work and would look very boring whilst a grey featureless sky would not work either with the architecture. I was relying on some kind of golden glow. It didn’t need to be anything special and indeed this sunset was nothing special with a lot of cloud and a blocked horizon which usually means a poor sunset.
I got just enough of a golden glow to make the scene exactly how I envisioned it in my head before capturing. However, there was tape surrounding the Campanile which was a massive distraction and eyesore. With the power of generative AI, I was able to edit the tape out though parts of it are softer than I’d like. I have included a copy of the image below my finished edit with the tape and people. Again some may not appreciate the removal of these as it does not truly reflect the scene at the time but I produce these as eye pleasing art, not freezing moments of time.
End result after the tape and people have been removed
Without cloning to remove the people and tape
#9 – Portmarnock trawler sunrise
There does be occasional trawlers in the Irish Sea visible from Portmarnock during the morning. I spotted them for the first time last winter. With an unobstructed sunrise view as it would come straight over the horizon, I immediately thought wouldn’t it be cool if I could align the sunrise with a trawler. I attempted for the first time in mid-March, I got into position to align a trawler with the sun before it started to come up then as soon as it did, the trawler started to leave. I ran for it but I could not keep up, he was too fast. All he had to do was wait another five more minutes for me to get the shot, was very annoying. I even got soaked for it as I accidentally stepped into a shallow soggy sand bank on the way rushing. I noticed another trawler that looked like he wasn’t moving so I made my way towards it which involved getting off the beach and up to the road past the martello tower ’til eventually the sun lined up with it but by that time it did, it was already as high as in the first image below which was just not the shot I was after. I had to wait for another opportunity to come which was a three week wait before I chanced another. However, I almost forgive the trawler fail for giving me other images I loved from that morning.
The day is Saturday, April 12th. It was the end of the fine spell of weather that had been going on for two weeks but there was at least one more sunrise to go before it would break. I chanced heading to Portmarnock to maybe get the shot I was after a few weeks beforehand plus there was high cloud forecast so maybe I would get some colourful skies too. There wasn’t as much cloud as forecast, it got slightly delayed but the horizon looked very hazy to the east which was promising for a red sunrise. There was also a trawler so like the first attempt, I got into position. I waited for the sun to come up. I kind of wish I had brought the 150-600mm for the extra focal length to compress the sun and the boat but alas I only brought the 70-300mm as I was not in the mood to carry the excess weight. This meant I needed to crop in a good bit of the final image which loses so much resolution. Unlike the first attempt, the trawler stayed put right where I needed it to and I got the shot.
#10 – Sutton sunset gem
I have photographed the Sutton Martello Tower many times over the years although I could never seem to get it right like some of the images I have researched of it by other photographers on platforms such as Flickr. I could not pinpoint what I was doing wrong either. Was it the particular spots I was positioning myself from? Was it the weather conditions? Whatever the reason was, at least it gave me an excuse to still capture this composition in a better way and oh boy did I. This was by far the best capture of it I’ve ever done with stunning conditions and sky colour. This was a “happy accident” however as you will find, I did not even set out to photograph it this evening.
It’s the 6th May. Another photographer was about to lose the will to live after failing numerous times attempting to capture sunset aligned with Dublin Airport air traffic control tower due to a misinterpretation of where they needed to be for the alignment to occur. As I had no other ideas in mind with how much I had photographed in recent months as conditions were so frequently stunning, I said I’d help out and get the shot for them at last.
We waited for the alignment to occur adjusting our position in the process as PhotoPills was a bit off on where we had to exactly stand. In the process of waiting, we took some shots at Red Rock and gave the other photographer a lesson on composition which is often more important than the technicalities of the camera. There is not much use in having the best camera around or having high technical proficiency if you do not know how to compose a photo well that is eye catching, especially in the age of smartphones and digital cameras where it gets more and more difficult for your image to stand out.
One example of having a composition conscious mind is this here. There’s a lovely carpet of sea thrift flowers beside the Sutton Martello Tower. The average person will think this is a scene worthy of a photograph but they capture from eye level as it’s what you see and takes the least effort. It’s so much more photographically interesting and pleasing to shoot low down at the level of the flora making them a more dynamic subject in the scene whereas at eye level, they don’t play much of a role. I show an image below shot at eye level compared to the one where I adjusted my position to level with the flowers though not at the exact same ones as there was multiple carpets of them – can you spot the ones I did photograph? It’s open to subjectivity but I much prefer the image where the sea thrift play a much bigger role.
There was cloud blocking the horizon so it wasn’t going to be right in line, we had to get it sitting at the top. It was a bright sun with a lot of contrast between the solar disc and the landscape below. It was very challenging to shoot but with the power of editing, I was able to recover some details on the sun and the foreground. I helped out the other photographer with dialling in the settings and exposure. They got the shot and was relieved they could finally mark off the air traffic control tower. It looked like the sky was going to light up so waited around.
The cirrus cloud streaks in the sky lit up beautifully after the sun had set and not only that, there was a very bright sun pillar beaming high into the sky. I have captured it on my phone below to illustrate before the sky went from golden to a wide spectrum of colours.
I would not make it to get to position for a landscape shot of the martello tower with the DSLR so I sent the drone up. I stacked a series of multiple shots to smoothen out the water in Photoshop and get the effect as if I was shooting a long exposure. Only problem with doing this, especially with a drone, is always the risk of blur at the edges as there’s only so much the software can make adjustment for any movement of the camera in between the different shots which with a drone trying to stabilise in the air, it only takes a slight bit of damage on the propellers or breeze to move. I was amazed with how sharp the final result came out and I got the stunning sky in all of its glory including the sun pillar to the left of the tower. Times like this I’m glad I have a drone or I would have missed it.
#11 – Misty Kells
Continuing in building my Meath portfolio, next up on the list was to capture the Spire of Lloyd and the monastic site in Kells. I’ve wanted to get all the heritage sites in Meath on a misty morning as I think it would make for a cool series when you put them all up against each other. In 2024, I managed Trim Castle and the Hill of Slane both on perfect misty mornings. Spring 2025 did not have very many misty morning opportunities as airmasses tended to be very dry but the second week of April brought a few as a temporary more humid airmass arrived. As already mentioned in the first highlight, the 10th April was one of the misty mornings. Two days before, the 8th April, was another. I took this as the opportunity to chance going to Kells which is a good distance drive. Only thing was, I did not have my main DSLRs which were getting sensor cleaned. I was given an old Canon DSLR from my uncle which I had yet to use so I brought that with me and tried capturing with it but I could instantly tell how old it was by the inferior image quality and dynamic range. It’s still better than nothing though.
I arrived at the Spire of Lloyd at 40 minutes before sunrise. There was plenty of mist and fog on the way, very thick in places including through the main town of Kells but it was low lying so there was none at the hill where the lighthouse was. That was a bit disappointing but it was beautiful looking down at the low lying mist from the hill and it looked like the sky was going to light up which indeed it did as evidenced by the first two images shown below taken with the old Canon DSLR.
The drone captured better quality shots than the old camera and I think the better perspective too, you can even see Kells itself with the low lying mist to the right of it in the first image whilst the third one has it behind the lighthouse and closer as it was compressed using the 70mm lens. Though I was disappointed by the lack of mist on the hill, I can’t really moan with a sky like this can I?
Some more camera shots looking at the cattle in the field beside the tower and the misty landscape behind illuminated by the rising sun. Quality not the best again as they’re from a camera with outdated technology.
I waited over 30 minutes for one more shot that I had in mind as the sun needed time to rise over the hill and capture a starburst sunrise beside the tower with the camera. It was going to be challenging with the inferior dynamic range but I managed a result that was ok. Lots of colour artifacts in the sky from trying to reduce the exposure and the foreground looking soft from the recovered shadows. This was clearly pushing the camera to its absolute limit.
I showed my first attempt of it appearing over the hill also below which did not go too well, colours all over the place and very overexposed where the sun is. I am showing this to those who believe I always get a perfect photo and very envious. That is nonsense, I just don’t tend to show all the bad ones. None of us like to, we like to showcase the best of ourselves to the world. We all have stinkers.
Bonus shoutouts to the Baily Lighthouse red sunrise on the 3rd April caused by saharan dust and a colourful sky at the Fairy Tree in Knockbridge, Louth on the 10th April (what a day!) as this post is already too long and I need to conclude it.
That’s spring 2025. What an amazing season of memories made. This collage is just a selection of the moments I managed to capture throughout the three months. Many people would be delighted to have this as a whole portfolio but this is just my work from one single season of weather. When the weather is beautiful in Ireland, I prioritise it over anything else to make the most of it best I can as who knows when you’d get another period like it again. Periods like these are the exception in our climate unlike if I was living in Spain, I probably wouldn’t get out as often to specifically capture the sun as well there’s no novelty of it there, it’s more unusual for the sun to not be out. Doing all these rises and sets meant sacrificing my sleep which suffered majorly. It got to a point where I did not do a sunrise for the final two weeks of May though I’d have loved to as a good sunrise sets me up for the day ahead. When you do both sunrise and sunset as consistently as I did though especially with the short nights between them at this time of year, it gets too much.
Spring 2025 will live long in the memory. Will never be forgotten. Thank you very much weather gods for gracing us with one of the best seasons we will probably ever see weather wise in this country and unlike 2020, we did not have lockdown restrictions to contend with.
