Featured image: Gail Park – The Secret Fort by the Sea – Portnoo, Co. Donegal, 2nd Place winner in the Heritage and Coast category.
Seven images from Donegal’s wild and wonderful coast were shortlisted in the final of this year’s Love Your Coast photography competition.
One photograph taken in Portnoo by Gail Park took second place in the Heritage on the Coast category.
Pictured above, “The Secret Fort by the Sea” captures Doon Fort on a calm December evening.
Gail said about her photo, “Taken in late December, the setting sun lighting up the brown and red shrubs complimented with no wind, this was the most idyllic evening to capture Doon Fort. With Croagh Head and Aranmore Island sitting in the Atlantic behind it, it’s hidden away and not signposted on account of it being surrounds fully by private lands. As a result, this photo required my DJI Mini2 drone.”
An Taisce’s Clean Coasts Programme proudly announced the winning photographers of the 15th edition of the Love Your Coast photography competition at an event in Dublin yesterday evening.
Pawel Zygmunt – The Lighthouse – Fanad Head, Co. Donegal
Other shortlisted photos from Donegal included John Seager, “Stranded” taken at Marble Hill Strand, in the Coastal Landscape Category. Pawel Zygmunt, with “The Lighthouse”, taken at Fanad Head, in the Heritage on the Coast category.
Sinead Mc Cahey, with “Mulroy Bouquet”, Woodquarter Mulroy Bay, in the Underwater Category, and Stephen Dunbar, with “The Corncrake”, taken at Tory island.
Sinead McCahey – Mulroy Bouquet – Mulroy Bay, Co. Donegal
In the People and the Coast category, two shortlisted photos were taken in Donegal, these were, Megan Gayda, with “Into the Vortex”, taken in Donegal Bay, and Aaron Van Haaster, with “Reading by the coast”, taken at Tullen Strand, Bundoran.
In the 15 years since its inception in 2010, the Love Your Coast photography competition has been a celebration of the extraordinary beauty of Ireland’s coastline, that Clean Coasts’ volunteers work diligently to protect.
The Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government is proud to support An Taisce’s ‘Clean Coasts Programme’, in its enthusiastic engagement with marine communities in relation to marine litter and in raising public awareness and influencing positive behaviour among civil society.
Clean Coasts is also sponsored by Fáilte Ireland, the National Tourism Development Authority. Initiatives from associated Clean Coasts groups and the Green Coast Awards act as custodians for Ireland’s beaches, seas, and marine life, to maintain that they are managed appropriately and that they are litter and pollution free for our visitors to enjoy!
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