I spent new years in Dingle, a small, small (small) village in Co. Kerry in South Ireland. The sum total of my activities were, in no particular order: eat, drink, sleep and shoot.
Seriously, shouldn’t that net be in the water or something? I’m no fisherman but my non-fishermen instincts were kicking in here. Unfortunately there were no actual fishermen around (apart from two I saw in a pub drinking Guinness at noon) outside who could help me on this niggling matter 
There was a whole load of noise in this image – you can see some remnants of it just below the clouds. It was far worse but I cleaned most of it up using some nice software from Imagenomic. It’s called Noiseware Professional Plug in (this link is for the MAC version, the WINDOWS version is here.) It’s a Photoshop plugin that works wonders to drastically reduce the amount of noise in your images – the first time I used it my jaw nearly fell off! I now use it all the time (it’ll feature in my HDR Tutorial). I’ll do a proper review of it when I get the time.
I’ve said it already but I’ll say it again just to remind myself, I’ve started Part 3 of my HDR Tutorial, it’s getting there but still won’t be online for a couple more days – let’s put a definite latest date on it: 10th January 
If you’re interested in knowing how I made this, along with my other photos, you can check out my HDR Tutorial
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Nice shot! The colors are great. I remember walking this same waterfront briefly a couple years ago and thinking it was an interesting spot.
Also, I just recently used Noiseware for the first time as well and I agree, it’s fantastic.