New Year's Day 2011

I spent New Year's with friends in Oughterard, the gateway to The West. It's a special place, Connemara, God's own country. I'd like to spend more time there, photographing it more extensively. It is layered with history, fields of old potato drills can still be seen half way up mountain sides. These images are of Loughaunierin, just off the N59 between Oughterard and Maam Cross. The old Galway to Clifden railway line ran along the far shore of the lake.