Giants Causeway Sunset Photo

Photographer’s Note

The Giants Causeway, Co Antrim in N Ireland is a mass of basalt columns packed tightly together. The tops of the columns form stepping stones that lead from the cliff foot and disappear under the sea. Altogether there are 40,000 of these stone columns, mostly hexagonal but some with four, five, seven and eight sides. The tallest are about 40 feet high, and the solidified lava in the cliffs is 90 feet thick in places.

Taken at Sunset Last Friday evening.

Thanks for looking :)
Gary

Glint, Silversnow, ManuMay, Dpbours, smythdylan has marked this note useful

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Canada (292) 2008-07-03 6:21 [Comment]

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yuo (856) 2008-07-03 6:53

Hi Gary,
it intersting shape of hexagonal stones.
the sunset is really beautiful.
TFS! Yuo

Praetzer (1657) 2008-07-03 7:25

Thanks for your note.
Excellent use of wide-angle. Also the grad filter effect is very well done: in a lot of cases, the picture becomes unreal: Here it adds value. Congrats. Alfred

Glint (3196) 2008-07-03 8:12

hello Gary,
dramatic and evocative,I like it.Well composed with the digonal line of the water and of course the thirds rule used.
Bev

siggi (1419) 2008-07-03 9:58

Hello Gary,
Beautiful scenery. Excellent colours, good light .
Best regards
Siegfried

marjan (6113) 2008-07-03 10:26

hi Gary xcellent shot , superb composition and very high quality.
Marjan

batalay (21821) 2008-07-03 17:13

Hello Gary,

What an astonishing site, either from a distant planet or a science fiction story. Normally, hexagonal cross-sections (along with equilateral triangles and squares) are the only regular polygons that can "tile" flat space. But if you have irregular shapes in between, you could still tile. There must be a little of both dynamics going on here. The compositions, colors and textures are sensational in your photograph. So you shot this just last Friday, and not in the Triasic or Jurasic period!?! The note informs the photograph well, indeed, this is one that I plan to put away among my favorites, as soon as I can free up some space.

Warm regards and have a good weekend,

Bulent

Silversnow (2161) 2008-07-04 9:14

Wow, a classic geological monument very well captured in gorgeous sunset colors on a superb composition :D

ManuMay (12304) 2008-07-04 9:51

WOOOOOOW!!!!

Great Gary!!
Absolute a piece part of a dream.
Great colours, contrasts, point of view. Superb!!!
Best Regards.
Manuel

chawax (6428) 2008-07-04 11:41

Hi Gary,
Great shot of this incredible place (you can't believe it's something natural !). Great light and great colours.
Regards,
Olivier

Dpbours (220) 2008-07-04 11:55

Hello Gary,

What an interesting causeway that is!
Do you know why they built this over there? Well, I guess against the sea. But why so labour intensive with all those stones? Why not with concrete or some other kind of easier solution? How old is it? Just wondering ;-).
Nice compo. Enough to see in this composition and a pleasant sunset. Nice!!

Greetings and have a nice weekend,
Dennis

baladine (1201) 2008-08-01 8:33

Hello Gary,
Very impressive clouds there ! Beautiful colours and light.
Regards
Orianne

kyrneucciu (1344) 2008-09-04 2:27

Hi Gary,true small jewels that this stereotype. cheer. JO

BoisBarb (9563) 2008-09-13 7:57

Je découvre une galerie d'une rare beauté et d'une rare qualité. La gestion des lumières et l'utilisation du ND Grad sont parfaitement maîtrisées et conduise à de véritables petit chef d'œuvres
BoisBarb