Fleeting

I had a lovely day today, teaching one to one with Ann Marie. Ann Marie had been given a voucher for Christmas ! Ann Marie had already done some classes in Dublin so she was not a beginner. We met early in Louisburgh and made our first stop at Carramore Beach, just as we got there the heavens opened and it poured rain, so badly we had to make a dash back to the car and just wait it out. It seemed like not a great start to the day! But after five minutes or so the rain stopped and the light was just so dramatic. I love this kind of weather because it does create dramatic landscapes when the sun breaks through the dark skies.It is often fleeting and can be very challenging to capture, but Ann Marie was certainly up for the challenge and we spent most of the day chasing the light up and down the Doolough valley ! Sitting out the showers in the car, then jumping into action as soon as the rain stopped and before the skies would clear to blue .Ann Marie got some great pictures and was introduced to "lightroom" for the first time in the afternoon, and was amazed at how easy it was to use and what a difference she could make to her images!!
The dramatics continued as I drove home and I just had to stop at the quay in Westport when I saw this scene, the dark sky over the brightly lit mud flats. Within a minute of this image being made the sun had disappeared and everything went dark, and it rained - again !
camera Fuji XE1