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Letters from the Landscape
Keem Beach sits at the western end of Achill Island, tucked into a steep bowl of cliffs where the road drops in tight bends that make you wonder if you've taken a wrong turn. You haven't. I was there as the tide pushed in under a heavy, unbroken sky. Grey-purple cloud pressing down, no warmth in the light at all. The rocks formed a natural arrangement across the foreground, different sizes, different distances from the lens, and the composition just fell into place.
I set up for a long exposure to smooth the incoming water around the base of each rock and to pull detail from the wet sand. When a tide moves across a flat beach like this, it leaves fine channels and patterns in the surface. The long exposure turns that sand pale and reflective against dark stone. That contrast was what I was after.
There's a faint outline of land on the horizon, just visible through haze. I folded it into the frame because it gives the image a sense of depth that would otherwise be empty sky meeting empty sea. Achill has a difficult history, famine and emigration and hard living, and when the sky comes down heavy over those cliffs the place feels more honest. I prefer it like this.
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.
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