Tracked delivery to Ireland: €10
Letters from the Landscape
Ireland's finest lighthouse, without question. For most of the year you can't step from a boat onto it. The sea around the Fastnet is relentlessly hostile, and what you're looking at here is a fairly typical day. Not even a bad one. In winter, it gets much worse.
What draws me back to this photograph is the colour of the water. Where surf breaks over submerged rocks at the fringes, the white water sits just beneath the surface and turns the dark Atlantic green into this remarkable turquoise. You wouldn't expect it twelve miles off West Cork. I associate that colour with the tropics, not with a jagged rock in Irish waters. But there it is. The Atlantic does what it wants.
Cape Clear Island sits on the horizon behind, the closest point of land. Often called the Teardrop of Ireland, it was the last thing emigrants saw of home when sailing for America and Australia. That thought always sits with me when I look at this image. It adds a weight to the place that goes well beyond what the eye sees.
Read the story behind these photographs, from six or seven nights out on the Fastnet Rock.
Every print is made to order: printed, checked, signed, and packaged for you individually.
Every print is signed. Unframed and framed prints are signed and titled by hand on the white border beneath the photograph.
Archival inks on museum-grade materials. Unframed and framed prints are Giclée prints on cotton rag paper.
Prints are well-packaged, tracked and insured. If one arrives damaged, I'll replace it at no cost.
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I ship worldwide, and every print from Exhibition size up goes free to Ireland, the UK and Europe. Studio prints and books carry a small charge, and the cost for the size you've chosen is shown under the Add to Cart button. The full table is on our Shipping page, and you'll see the exact cost at checkout before you pay. Every parcel is tracked and insured. Within the EU there's no customs duty; outside it, any import duty or tax is the buyer's to pay.
Yes. A framed size is the whole frame, edge to edge: 3 inches bigger each way than the print inside it. An unframed size is the sheet of paper, including the white border where I sign and title each print by hand. Canvas and Floating Panel sizes are the face of the piece.
Yes, free. Send me a photograph of your wall. I'll send it back with the print hanging on it, at its true size and in the correct perspective. Start my free preview
Changed your mind? Send it back within 30 days for a full refund; you cover the return postage. If it arrives damaged or isn't right, I'll replace it or refund you, free. And it's guaranteed for life against fading. The full policy
We are thoroughly enjoying the beautiful, framed photograph of Fastnet lighthouse from the air. It is a constant reminder of our amazing stay in Ireland and our cruise around the lighthouse.
We got our large framed print of the fastnet after seeing it on holiday in Kerry. It is the centrepiece of our kitchen living area and lots of visitors comment on the what a great picture it is.
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