Tracked delivery to Ireland: €10
Letters from the Landscape
I'd gone up to catch a big sea detonating against the rock. The forecast looked promising. It didn't quite deliver. But what I got instead was something better in its own way. The swell had just hit and was pulling back, and you can see the water ebbing off in every direction, revealing so much of Fastnet Rock that is normally underwater. The dark mass of it. The actual shape and scale.
From sea level, you see a lighthouse on a lump of rock. From up here, in the trough between waves, the rock dominates. The lighthouse is over fifty metres tall and it looks almost secondary. That's what I love about this photograph. Ireland's Teardrop, the last point of land emigrants saw as they sailed west, guiding ships since 1904. But from this angle, what strikes me is the sheer physical presence of the rock itself, battered and massive, with the Atlantic pulling away before the next wave arrives.
I still haven't got the massive wave I originally went up for. But I'm patient enough to keep trying!
Read the story behind these photographs, from six or seven nights out on the Fastnet Rock.
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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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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.
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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
High quality service & product. Very happy with the picture of Fastnet Rock Lighthouse.
We were very happy with our picture of Fastnet Rock lighthouse. An incredible picture of an incredible structure !
I absolutely love my picture of the Fastnet Lighthouse-Peter framed it and shipped it out to New Zealand, it arrived in perfect condition and very speedily,I am wowed by it every time I look at it 😍 Maree Scott
I bought this as a gift for my wife earlier in thhe year and i am still getting thanks forf it. Spectacular image.
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