Nocturne, Fanad Head, Co. DonegalFanad Head is one of those lighthouses I keep going back to. This was made well after sunset, probably around half ten on a summer evening, with the beam already sweeping through low cloud. The keeper's cottage still had its lights on, which gave the whole headland a sense of life against an otherwise empty sky. I'd been waiting for the water to settle. The wind had dropped just enough to let a long exposure flatten the surface of the inlet, and the