Let’s play some catch-​up. About a month or so ago, a friend of mine and Steffi’s (Nancy) came over from Aus­tria to visit us and Maynooth again (she was here on Erasmus last year).

We all agreed that we wanted to use the Easter days off to see the a bit more of Ire­land and since none of us had seen much of the (geo­graphic) north of the island it was quickly decided that we hire a car and fol­low the com­pass needle on a trip from Sligo along the coast of Donegal all the way up to Malin Head.

What mag­ni­fi­cent land­scape up there, I must say! We really enjoyed it! But I guess, the great weather also played part in that ;-)

Com­ing back from a little detour to see beau­ti­ful Mul­lagh­more Castle there was this strange light­ing situ­ation that hap­pens every now and then where the sun shines on the ground before you and mak­ing it look almost brighter than the sky in the back­ground. And as if someone had staged it, there was this bright white swan on the lake (a tad too far away though).

In post pro­cessing I just cranked up the blacks a good bit and desat­ur­ated the col­ours ever so slightly to com­pensate for the increase in sat­ur­a­tion (that occurs when you raise the black point). Done.

PS: A selec­tion of my best pho­tos from the trip can be found here; the bulk of them is up on flickr.