Photo of the Day


The Woods Ahead

July 8, 2019

By Jacqueline Tobin

© Paula O'Hara

This couple had exchanged vows in the United States and hired photographer Paula O’Hara to do a post-wedding shoot in Ireland. She took them to the Dark Hedges, a highly photographed location in Northern Ireland, especially popular all after all of its cameos in Game of Thrones.

“I really wanted to try something different, and I hadn’t seen a photograph of them from this angle,” O’Hara says, “showing the full shape of the trees right before you go into them.”

It was a misty morning, she recalls, and “there was a moment when they were standing there together, holding hands ready to walk into this eery and ominous-looking place, and it felt like there was a symbolic nature in that—this newly married couple journeying to unknown places but doing it together.”

(Shot with a Canon EOS R and 50mm f/1.2L lens at f/2, 1/125 sec. and ISO 1000.)

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