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Fern with Bluebells, Muckross, Killarney, Co. Kerry
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.
Bluebells are liars. Beautiful ones, but liars all the same. They're blue from one angle, purple from another. Overcast light pushes them violet. A break in the canopy and they swing back to blue. I've had two cameras render the same scene in completely different colours. Maddening.
Every spring at Muckross there's a window of maybe two weeks where they peak. This morning was overcast, which is exactly what you want. Flat, even light through the canopy, no harsh shadows, and the woodland floor was a carpet of colour stretching in every direction. Right in front of me, a single fern frond was unfurling in that acid green you only get from new growth. The contrast against the blue was remarkable.
I got low, opened the aperture wide, and let everything behind the fern dissolve into soft waves of blue and purple bleeding into each other. What I was after wasn't really the flowers. It was the texture of the colour itself. Those gradations, that refusal to settle into one thing.
You end up kneeling in damp earth, trying not to crush the very thing you're photographing. But with the whole forest floor glowing like that, wet knees don't register!
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!































