My wife Liz and I spent part of our summer holidays this year on the west coast of Ireland, visiting family and touring the local beauty spots.
The coastline in this part of the world is absolutely stunning, rugged and desolate, battered by wind, waves and weather coming in from the Atlantic.
Loop Head is one such part of the coastline of County Clare that we just keep on coming back to. We've never seen it on a sunny day, but even so there's a brooding magnificence to the scenery that rough weather just brings to the fore.
I shot the images for this panorama of part of Loop Head while dodging rain squalls and physically holding my tripod in place against the gusts of wind that threatened to blow me and it off the cliff.
I think it gives a much better representation of the feel of this part of Ireland that a postcard perfect sunny view could ever do.
Filename - loop head panorama 01.jpg
Camera - Canon 5D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 24mm
Exposure - 1/8 sec @ f11, ISO100
Location - Llandudno, North Wales
This image - 1200x290px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS5
Comments - Panorama stitched from separate overlapping exposures.
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