Jennymount Mill, Belfast

Jennymount Mill, Belfast

This is Jennymount Mill - a Victorian architectural gem in Belfast that is somehow still surviving for its original purpose. The motorway in front of the mill was originally railway sidings, but apart from that you have to go back a long way looking at old maps to see any change in the layout of the land around here. 

I used a low ISO to try and capture the sharp silhouette of the mill against the sky, but a fast shutter speed to expose more or less only for the setting sun. This threw everything into pitch black darkness apart from the last fading light in the blue sky and the sun itself. I then took the foreground up a little in Lightroom to expose the traffic on the motorway (a departure from my usual love of massive blocks of black in sunset photos). It's an image I am in two minds about. The vehicles add interest, but I also think they look a little "generated".

Date Taken
13th January 2026

Camera
OM-D E-M5 Mark III (Micro Four Thirds (MFT))

Settings
ISO200 | f4.5 | 1/3200 | 12mm

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