Nocturne, Skellig Michael, KerrySkellig Michael at night, twelve kilometres off the Kerry coast. The monastic clochn sit exactly where sixth century monks built them, dry stone beehive huts on a ledge six hundred feet above the Atlantic. Little Skellig rises from the dark water beyond. I made this photograph on a clear, moonless night with virtually no cloud cover. The Milky Way arcs across the sky above the settlement, thousands of stars visible thanks to the remarkable atmospheric