Next up, another shot from one of the Inter­na­tional Stu­dents’ Soci­ety trips (actu­ally my first). We went down to Kil­lar­ney to drive around the Ring of Kerry, a fam­ous and most beau­ti­ful region /​land­scape in the south west of Ire­land. More pho­tos from the trip can be seen here.

At the time I was still pretty new to D-​SLR pho­to­graphy and the Sony Alpha 100. I also just got my external flash gun, so I was exper­i­ment­ing as much as I could. Con­sid­er­ing how com­plic­ated get­ting a good expos­ure with flash and ambi­ent light­ing is to a new­bie like me, you can ima­gine how happy I was when this photo just came out as beau­ti­ful and per­fectly exposed as it is!

The photo shows the gui­tar­ist of the band “Fred” rip­ping an awe­some solo, lit­er­ally on the dance floor. Turn­ing the photo upside down just gave it the extra bit of, well, weirdness :-)