Here are some photos I took this year. 2020 wasn’t a year for travel, so most of these shots were taken in or near the 5km zone around the house. Inevitably, I kept on returning to the same subjects: Ballycotton and Garryvoe in County Cork. This reduced range forced me to consider new ways of looking at the same things. It was also the year I got a 400 mm lens, giving me much more visibility of objects in the far distance.
Garryvoe hotel at sunrise. I took a few photos like this during the year, when the conditions were right. Morning fog has a profound effect on the local landscape.The short summer hiatus afforded us an opportunity to go slightly further, and this one was taken by the cliff walk.The ghost ship MV Alta washed up on the Ballycotton coast just a few weeks or so before lockdown. A harbinger of what was to come as we too became trapped by the forces of nature.Ballycotton moonrise This one was very popular indeed. I love the colours and the shine off the waters. The evening wasn’t very clear, but the clouds added a mysterious quality to the moon.It seems like ages since Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE lit up our night skies in the summer. The camera required some serious tweaking to get right. Taken in the back field around midnight back in mid-July.A fortuitous one, this. The island swathed in fog, apart from its topmost parts. Like an otherworldly city in the air.Birds departing in a line from the local wood. An almost oriental quality to this photo.A boat in Ballycotton bay, awaiting the setting of the sun. This was taken while out with a few other photographers in Ballycotton.Stormy waves in Garryvoe, looking east to the signal tower by Knockadoon.A funny one this: a goose washing itself in The Lough in Cork.Ok, last one: a tree illuminated by the sunrise, with fog in the near distance.
Passive Impressions 
Lovely Colm!