Misty sunrise at Grange Stone Circle, Lough Gur, Co. Limerick

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A beautiful scene at Grange Stone Circle, the largest and most elaborate stone circle in Ireland. It sits close to the lake shore and on rare occasions the mist thant hangs over the lake drifts up and over the stone circle. Such was the scene that I witnessed on this morning in autumn 2018, a beautiful clear sky and strong sunlight burning through the mist that clung to the old stones of the circle with beams of light scattered by the branches of the mature trees that grow along its bank.

While Grange may be more popularly associated with the sunrise on the Summer Solstice, I’ve been chasing the original story from 1912 of an astronomical orientation centred around the November/February cross-quarter days. For the past 15 years I’ve been visiting the site around these sunrises and sunsets, observing the light in the passage and the shadows inside the circle itself. The clearing of some trees which formerly obscured the horizon allowed a much clearer observation in recent years, culminating in a series of images caputring the event from beginning to end.

Read more on the blog post: http://blog.shadowsandstone.com

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