
on your wall
The Old Head of Kinsale, Co. Cork
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.
I chartered a helicopter from Cork Airport for this one. Late summer evening, 2010. I knew exactly the photograph I wanted to make, and the only way to get it was from the air.
On the way out I was worried. The sky was too clean, too perfect. I work with big skies most of the time and I need cloud to give them structure. But as we came around and I got the Old Head dead centre in the frame, I realised the simplicity was the whole point. That colour gradient from deep blue overhead down to almost white at the horizon does all the work. A little line of puffy clouds sitting in the distance, and nothing else competing.
There's been a lighthouse out on that tip since 1665. The original was a cottage with an open fire burning on its roof, which is a wonderful thing to sit with. The current tower catches the last golden light right at the end of the peninsula, bounded by cliffs on every side. From the air, the low sun sculpts every fairway and bunker on the golf course. In a large print, you can actually pick out individual golfers.
Perfect symmetry. The headland splitting dark ocean on both sides, Kinsale Harbour off in the distance. I've learned that the conditions you worry about sometimes turn out to be exactly right!
Every print from Exhibition size up ships free to Ireland, the UK and Europe. Studio prints and books carry a small charge. You pay one delivery charge per order. If it includes a print from Exhibition size up, that rate covers everything in it. Outside Europe, each rate covers up to two prints from Exhibition size up, or up to four Studio prints and books. Larger orders pay the rate again for each further two large prints, or each further four smaller pieces.
- Studio prints & books: €10 Ireland, €20 UK and Europe, €30 US and Canada, €40 rest of the world
- Exhibition size and up: free to Ireland, the UK and Europe, €50 US and Canada, €100 rest of the world
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We produce all our prints to order, so you can be sure you're getting the best quality work to hang on your wall. The estimated delivery date for your address is shown on each print's page: the time it takes to make the print, plus the courier's time to you.
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.
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Thanks for your trust, and we hope you get many years of enjoyment from your new print!































