My mother's home near Cabinteely, County Dublin is much nearer The Three Rock Mountain than I am in my home just across the border, in Bray County Wicklow (as some of you who are familiar with my interminable "Bathroom" Sunset Series already know!). The TV transmitters that have over the year's been a constant (unwelcome) landmark for Dubliners like me atop this mountain therefore appear considerably nearer here through my long lens. In fact this is the first time I have shot the Sunset over this Dublin mountain from this perspective. It was a bit special to-night, for at least three reasons then, this sunset. Firstly, it was as you can see spectacular - with one very distinct orange beam (or pillar even, thanks Viny!) of light spraying light more or less vertically up from behind the mountain as you can clearly see in this shot. This single distinctive beam of light persisted for fifteen, maybe twenty minutes, & was at it's peak in intensity more or less when I shot this image. Secondly, it's a vantage point from which I have watched hundreds, possibly thousands of sunsets from during the first quarter century of my life - my parent's bedroom window. This though, was the very first time I've actually photographed it from here, & only because I was with my kids at the Circus earlier, so happened to have my camera in the car when I got to my mother's house for dinner this evening. Also, I would have missed this completely anyway, as I was in "eating my mother's amazing stew mode" at the time. If she had not been at the kitchen window & said "there's another beautiful sunset" (like she has maybe hundreds of times from that window over the years), then I would not have sloped off for five (OK, ten) minutes upstairs to her bedroom with my camera for the best vantage point, photographically. I was up & down maybe three times over the ten minutes, got three or four nice shots, of which I think this is probably the best. I still managed to have two helpings of her Stew, too... Thirdly, a nice local birdy on it's way home co-operated with my usual MO for Sunset shot's...& flew right past the orange beam of light. :)