That's a fine landscape shot, Seamus.
Perhaps a touch of contrast/clarity to spice it up? Some vignetting? Grain? Or would that be to artsy-fartsy for your street/documentary credo?
Thanks, SB, you've restored my faith in myself!.
The thing about the picture is that while it means very little to an international audience on this site, it means a lot locally, because it's near an old church which dates back to ancient times and a sacred monastic settlement. In fact, you can see the remains of the structure just above the left fencing in the picture, and then there's the iconic mountain, Ben Bulben - Ireland's equivalent of Table Mountain - beneath whose head lies buried the great poet, W. B. Yeats, much of whose work was inspired by the landscape in these here parts:
'Under bare Ben Bulben's head
In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.
An ancestor was rector there
Long years ago, a church stands near,
By the road an ancient cross.
No marble, no conventional phrase;
On limestone quarried near the spot
By his command these words are cut:
Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman pass by!'
As for the artsy/fartsy technical aspects, gimmie that any time. The peculiar thing is that when I look at the image in Lightroom, it appears fine, but when I upload, it seems to go very flat. I tried a few times to add some sparkle, but obviously from where you're sitting, nothing doing although it's fine here. Maybe it's a monitor thing, and anyway, the light was terrible on the day.
What you said earlier about photographers and their raison d'etre is a true thing. I went out to the old church (it was quite a trek for the likes of me over rough terrain) and I got nothing, but on my way back, I discovered the fallen fence, and hey presto, serendipity! The great joy was to be out shooting again, and not knowing what lies around the next corner.
