Corkscrew Hill Aerial Photography | Ireland
Winding Irish Road Through a Black and White Landscape
From above, the road becomes the subject.
I photographed Corkscrew Hill in Ireland in 2019, drawn to the way the narrow roadway twists back and forth across the countryside. At ground level, each bend would be experienced one at a time. From this elevated viewpoint, the entire sequence becomes visible at once—a series of tight curves cutting a dark ribbon through the surrounding fields and trees.
Black and white changed the scene considerably. Without colour competing for attention, the road markings, vegetation and repeated bends become much more graphic. The asphalt stands apart from the textured landscape, while two small cars give the photograph scale and make the road feel even more dramatic.
What interested me most was the geometry. One curve leads naturally into another, then disappears behind vegetation before returning farther up the hillside. The eye keeps following it. There is no single obvious endpoint; the road simply continues through the frame.
Ireland is often photographed for its expansive green landscapes, but I wanted something different here. The aerial perspective turned an ordinary country road into an almost abstract composition of curves, lines and changing textures.
For me, Corkscrew Hill is exactly the kind of subject that benefits from being seen from an unfamiliar angle. From above, the landscape reveals a structure that would be impossible to appreciate in quite the same way from the road itself.
© Dan Kosmayer, 2019
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