The Alchemist’s Hour landscape photgraphy

The Alchemist’s Hour landscape photgraphyAs the usual grey veil lifted I glimpsed the celestial alchemist transmuting the physical world into a dream of pure, molten gold.

the mundane transforms into a sea of gold

The forest of silver birch trees in Glendalough Valley is transformed into a labyrinth of light by the afternoon sun

A sense too of the natural cycle of things

As the sea ebbs

and entirely at home in the beautiful desolation

A lonely farm house provides a sense of scale at the foot of Benchoona Mountain as the ancient land rises from the frigid lake all the way to the clouds

A momentary collision of light and water quietly dissects a sun-kissed peak of Ben Gorm to separate it from its shadowed valley below

A silent biographer of the Connemara coast

one's eye follows the curve to be lead across Ballynakill Bay to gaze up on the prize

Northern Ireland

A Connemara pony overlooking the Connemara coastline from the top of the Sky Road near Clifden

Ireland with the large Mweelrea mountain as the background