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If you want to enjoy some of the most spectacular coastal scenery in the world then you need travel no further than the west coast of Ireland.

Battered by Atlantic breakers, the coastal cliffs and rocks of Loop Head in County Clare provide some dramatic wave action to photograph, even on a relatively calm and sunny day.

This offshore rock shelf, throwing up huge plumes of spray, is to be found just outside the seaside town of Kilkee at the start of the Loop Head peninsula.