On coming back from Dublin the other weekend we decided to get off the motorway and make our way to the Rock of Cashel. Alas the medieval site was in the midst of restoration work so much of the buildings were covered in scaffolding and cordoned off.
Visitors still milled around the rest of the site (entrance fee was waived as a result of the works) but the concentration of people in a smaller area and the presence of the scaffolding did not make a compelling photographic opportunity.
Overall I found the view over the mist covered valley and the ruined Hore Abbey to present the most likely opportunity, though the conditions were hardly promising.
The final image used above was treated in Lightroom 5 CC where I used the “de-haze slider” – a new feature to me that was not on my original Lightroom 5. It made a massive difference as the two images below testify.
Overall I think I would have preferred to have paid the entrance money and seen everything fully restored. May be a return trip might be in order.
Meticulous Mick 
Aye u get it in Camera Raw too it an amazing tool bit like clarity neefs to used sparingly – u can easily overdo it – but is a very powerful tool
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It wasn’t in my original Lightroom 5 but found it in the CC version. Unless going for a very artistic / stylised look most tools are best used in careful measure I find…
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Thanks MM I didn’t know about that de-haze. Looks great 😃
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It does look a beautiful place 🙂
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Hi there Jo, thanks for coming over and leaving a comment – good to hear you liked what you saw. MM🍀
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I’ve only been to Ireland once and I liked it very much. 🙂
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Hope you headed out west when you came over, west is best! From Donegal to Cork. Many years ago did the Coast to Coast walk ending in Robin Hood’s Bay and we often stayed with friends in Harrogate. My brother in law is from Ilkley. Lovely part of the world. Am also a bit of a Portugal fan, having lived in Lisbon for 3 years…MM🍀
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Sounds like we have plenty in common. I love Robin Hood’s Bay and the cliff top walks along that coast. I was just admiring your ‘Solitude’ 🙂
I started in Cork and did Ring of Kerry and Dingle. Would have loved to go further up the coast but I had to get back to Dublin. Many thanks for the follow, by the way 🙂
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Donegal is amazing and I love Connemara too, so plenty of reasons to return 😉
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Wonderful old grave stones and the before and after certainly show the benefits of de-haze.
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Yes, it works really well and such a simple tool too 👍
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great capture!
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Cheers Arv! pity the rest of the scene was covered in scaffolding…
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love the old Irish graveyard pics!
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Cheers Liz, plenty of these lying around the place….HVD❤️
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Pretty neat. Love those old rurik cross tombstones.
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