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My wife Liz and I were on a sightseeing holiday on the west coast of Ireland but I'm afraid we chose a pretty poor week weatherwise, with grey skies and drizzle for most of the time we were there.

So what do you photograph when the weather isn't playing ball? Well I take the view that all types of light are good for something, and if overcast flat lighting is what's on offer then I change my focus from photographing dramatic landscapes to looking at more intimate details, the sort of subject that would be just too contrasty in direct sunlight.

This shot is of an old lobster pot, resting on the harbour wall in the little fishing village of Crookhaven, and to me it sums up the feeling of relaxed decay that I experienced while I was there.

Converting the image to monochrome, with a hint of sepia and a vignette, helps to convey the mood of the place possibly better than a dramatically lit grand landscape could do.