Shannon to Tralee

I arrived in Shannon at 8:30am or so, local time. I didn't get any sleep on the plane and suffered from jet lag in a very severe way. However, I wanted to get down towards County Kerry as quickly as possible. I got to my rental car and insanely, decided to drive the two hours or so down to Tralee. Keep in mind that I was tired and had no practice whatsoever on how to drive on the wrong side of the road. Things turned out OK though and I didn't die on the way down (the near-death experiences due to driving came later on - in the next couple of days).

I arrived in Tralee around 2:00pm. I slept for four hours and then went out and took some photos of the Dingle Peninsula from across Tralee Bay. It was chilly (3-4 degrees centigrade) and rainy. Not the most pleasant way to start a vacation.

A couple of notes about the photos. First off, it was damn cold and clammy on this day. It was drizzly, cold, windy: just what you'd expect for Irish weather. In addition, the sky was bright and the grass was very, very green. This makes for massively high contrast. The slide film had a slightly difficult time with it and the scanner had an even more difficult time with it. If I knew what I was doing with my slide scanner right now I might have been able to squeeze out a bit more information that would make the image a little brighter (and it's not so easy as just setting the Brightness and Contrast levers) but until I figure out the trick to digital image editing you're going to have to put up with these shots. What's more (yes, there's more) these images were taken sometime around 6:30pm local time. The sun was already on its way down and I didn't have that much to work with. Kind of adds to the gloominess of the scene.