Sherkin Island Sunset, Co. Cork

Medium fine art print: 13" x 4.3" Price: €59

Large fine art print: 36" x 13" Price: €199

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Description:
This image is an example of why you should never give up on a scene when all indications are that the light is bad, and going to remain bad.

Made from near the Baltimore Beacon looking out over Sherkin Island and its lighthouse. The evening had looked promising, but a band of cloud moved in from the west and looked to smother all the colour of the sunset. I was ready to leave, but a photographer friend who was with me wasn't about to give up just yet.

We stuck around and a few minutes after the sun set (invisibly), we were rewarded with this stunning display on the underside of the encroaching low cloud. It literally came from nowhere.

The lighthouse in the image is the east Sherkin light, and it's one of the few lighthouses in the country that's not under the auspices of the Commissioners for Irish Lights, being maintained instead by the locals on the island.

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