
on your wall
Inside the Lantern, the Fastnet Lighthouse, Co. Cork
For a living room or above a sofa, Feature or Showcase sizes give the best impact. Unframed prints are perfect if you'd like to choose your own frame.
If in doubt, contact me!
Prints are made to order, so I can't take one back just because you've changed your mind, but if it arrives damaged or isn't what you ordered, I'll replace it at no cost. You can swap it within 30 days, though you'd cover the return postage.
The first time I visited the Fastnet, I spent most of my time just looking. You do that on the rock. The granite, the sea hammering below, everything about the place demands it. But the moment I remember most clearly happened inside the lantern room itself.
There's a small hatch at the base of the lantern assembly. You climb up through it and look directly into the Fresnel lens from below. The geometry is extraordinary. Concentric glass prism rings, heavy brass framework, the whole mechanism designed over a century ago and still precise enough to make an engineer weep. I was composing a photograph of the interior when I noticed something. As the lantern rotated, a brief rainbow would flash across the vertical support post. A tenth of a second. Then gone. Then back on the next rotation.
I wanted it in the frame. Most exposures missed entirely. A couple caught a faint smear of colour but nothing convincing. Eventually one frame caught the full spectrum, violet through red, refracted cleanly across that metal post by glass prisms designed to throw light twenty miles out to sea. Not to make rainbows for photographers crouched underneath!
That's what I love about the Fastnet. An early twentieth century industrial masterpiece that still surprises you.
Read the story behind these photographs, from six or seven nights out on the Fastnet Rock.
Shipping is free once your order passes a threshold that depends on where it's going:
- Ireland: free over €75, otherwise €9
- UK and Europe: free over €150, otherwise €20
- US and Canada: free over €250, otherwise €35
- Rest of the world: a flat €100, whatever the order value
Your exact shipping cost is specific to your location and is shown to you before you finalize checkout.
We produce all our prints to order, so you can be sure you're getting the best quality work to hang on your wall. As a result, in busy times it can take a while to process the orders. In the worst case, which is generally during the peak months of July-September, it can take 4-6 weeks to receive large framed prints. Large canvases generally take 2-3 weeks. Unframed prints are generally also 2-3 weeks at worst.
We aim to get prints out as quickly as possible, so we would expect and hope that you would receive them earlier than the above timeframes. If you have a particular need to get a print quickly, please let us know in the order notes and we'll prioritize it for you, or you can email us at info@petercox.ie.
Prints are well-packaged and in the unlikely event that it arrives damaged, we'll send a replacement free of charge.
When your order ships, you'll receive an email with your tracking number.
Thanks for your trust, and we hope you get many years of enjoyment from your new print!












