Kilcumin Sunrise

Well today is the last day of August and there is a real end of summer feeling,the kids on our street are going back to school and some are heading off to University and of course the days are getting shorter. In fact the days are shortening by 4 minutes a day, this is good news for the landscape photographer because the sun is rising and setting at much more sensible times. generally during the summer I avoid sunrises, preferring to stay in my bed. But today the sunrise was at 6.44. I decided to go to Kilcumin Head and photograph the sunrise from Mayo's East coast. So I set the alarm for 5.15 and drove the hour or so to Kilcumin, it was very cloudy and I did wonder on many occasions wether I would be better to go home and skip it, because it looked like the sunrise would not be visible. But as I got to Kilcumin a gap appeared under the cloud and I did see the sunrise, I only saw the sun for about five minutes before it rose up and behind that great bank of cloud. but those few minutes were magical. Cant really capture the feel of in a picture, but to be there alone with the sea lapping on the rocks was really special. And when it was over I drove home and was on time to bring Trish her breakfast in bed!!