Lighthouses

[auburngrad82]

One of my favorite subjects to photograph is lighthouses. Here are just a few:


Orient Point, Long Island, NY


Statue of Liberty, Manhattan, NY


Bodie Island Lighthouse, Outer Banks, NC


Currituck Lighthouse, Outer Banks, NC


Okracoke Lighthouse, Okracoke Island, Outer Banks, NC

[electricmonk]

1. I love the Outer Banks. Here's another Bodie Island shot

The original is a lot sharper than this, had to shrink it a whole lot.



I have some black and white ones of it too that are pretty cool but they aren't scanned yet.

[Touchdown]

2. IIRC: I couldn't get too close to this one

Historical landmark possibly, so I used a 200mm TP. Somewhere on the North peninsula of the San Diego Bay.

[Malva Zebrina]

3. I live in the land of lighthouses

Bass Harbor, Maine



Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia


Pemaquid Light


Pemaquid light--

[intheflow]

6. Spent a lot of time around Bass Harbor. I love that lighthouse.

But your really brilliant work is in the Peggy's Cove and the first Pemaquid lighthouse photo. Great compostition with the rocks and the reflections!

[Pert_UK]

4. Thought I'd add one in case you're interested....

Cape Leuwin Lighthouse, Augusta, Western Australia.....Fantastic drive down there.....2 oceans meet at that point....I think, although I may have got confused....

[intheflow]

5. Northern California

Naval lighthouse, somewhere between Carmel and Big Sur.



I have a lot more, not scanned in.

[Baclava]

7. The Key West Lighthouse

[Baclava]

8. The Cape Canaveral Lighthouse

[Blue_In_AK]

9. Everybody loves lighthouses...

Here's one in southern Oregon ... I don't remember exactly where.

[Be Brave]

13. That's the Coquille River Lighthouse, near Bandon, OR. n/t

[Blue_In_AK]

14. Thank you, you're absolutely right.

Do you live around there? The Oregon coast is so beautiful.

[Be Brave]

16. I live in the valley, but I visit the coast often because,

as you say, it is very beautiful. It's only about a 60-mile drive from where I live to the coast.

[Coastie for Truth]

10. In the old days, the Coast Guard League sold

"Light House" calendars - and actively solicited 'chromes (were talking 1960's) of light houses.

The photo of the "Head of Passes, Louisiana Light Tower and Radio Tower" with an oil tanker in the background was done by my cubicle mate.

Anybody know if that's still around.

[TahitiNut]

11. My first cousin once removed (a Coastie) kept this lighthouse.

It's on Middle Island, slightly north of Alpena. He was a Chief, and was the lighthouse keeper of two or three, at various times, in Michigan. The last one he kept was north of Manistique on the Keewenah Peninsula somewhere. When we traveled up to visit him and his family at Middle Island in the 50's, we had to go the last 2.5 miles by boat. As a teenager, I thought that was kewl. I thought the lighthouse was VERY kewl. Not many families got to vacation on a private lighthouse island. He was the last keeper of the Middle Island light before it was automated, I think.

[Blue_In_AK]

12. I love that one with the reflection... n/t

[Lefty48197]

15. Here's one from Michigan's Mission Peninsula

The water levels have been so low that you can walk out on that rocky "sand bar" about 1/2 mile into Grand Traverse Bay. The area is right near the 45th parallel, and that rock mound is no doubt, part of some sort of pagan ritual.