Drama 16 Stage Lighting

2) Photo taken by Nic Christopher. Taken around 6:53 on 4/9/12 on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland.

3) THEME: Dealer’s Choice- BRILLIANT!

4) DESCRIPTION: This is one of my most recent pictures that I have added to my collection of shots from around the world. I was happy to hear that this week was “Dealer’s Choice” because I couldn’t wait to use one of the pictures I took in Ireland for a photo observation. I noticed that when I am taking my pictures now, I am much more aware of the light around me. When flipping through my pictures and looking at the ones with interesting lighting, I stumbled across this one and decided to make my theme BRILLIANT!

Brilliant- splendid or magnificent, that is what I saw within this image. The Dingle peninsula is crawling with 30 miles of old churches, small islands and ancient monastic temple ruins. Everywhere I turned I was either walking into a sheep or stumbling across ruins from a once prospering monastic settlement. Unfortunately, the day that I spent touring the Dingle peninsula, it was rather stormy and the rain was coming in fierce but short bursts. The spotty weather made picture taking hard and sightseeing limiting. Just as I was wrapping up my drive the clouds started to clear and the sun began to poke its way through.  We drove past this church and bell tower and pulled over to check out one last set of remains from an ancient oratory. As I got out of the car, I stopped and looked up to see that the bell tower was in a perfect silhouette and the clouds were magnificent.

I see this image and immediately think of the word brilliant because of the way the sun seems to almost be pushing the clouds away and blowing them out in all directions. The sun appears to be almost a living force that is fighting the clouds and making its space in the sky. now that it has made its space the images on earth become much more enhanced and stunning. The way the bell tower is positioned directly in front of the sun surrounded by the clouds is simply magnificent. The sky almost appears to be on fire, the light is so pure and the colors are so vivid. It was a wonderful way to end our damp drive; the firey bright sky bursting open to cast the late evening light on our last sight for the day.