Cork photographer’s stone circle snap lights up the Smithsonian

The image is one of 100 photographs featured as part of the Lights Out: Recovering Our Night Sky exhibit which runs at the Smithsonian from March 2023 until December 2025

The International Space Station flies high above Drombeg Stone Circle near Glandore in West Cork in this image captured by Cian O'Regan in March 2020. The image goes on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History on March 23 for two years as part of a new exhibit on light pollution. Picture: Cian O'Regan

A Cork photographer’s image of a west Cork stone circle has been chosen for a major exhibition about light pollution at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington DC.

A photograph of Drombeg Stone Circle near the village of Glandore in West Cork, taken by Cork photographer, Cian O’Regan, will go on display on March 23 at the Smithsonian — the most visited natural history museum in the world.