Gougane Barra, Co. CorkThis was made sometime around 2008 or 2009, not long after I'd moved to West Cork. One of my earliest photographs from Gougane Barra, and still one of my favourites. I was down at the lough before first light. The valley was completely still, mist sitting on the water, not a breath of wind. Just dark shapes and silence. Then the sun cleared the hills to the east and came through in this narrow band of warm light that caught the island and St.