W/NW: Lighthouses

[raydm6]

Gibbs Hill Lighthouse, Bermuda - 2014 (Canon S90)




"The optic consists of a Fresnel lens from 1904 revolving on steel bearings. However, for most of its history, the lens revolved on a bed of 1,200 pounds of mercury." - Wikipedia


"The lighthouse has 185 steps to the top in eight flights." - Wikipedia

 

[Bob Michaels]

Cape San Blas up in the Florida panhandle - A good friend wanted a photo of this lighthouse, so while I was camped nearby, I set up camera on tripod and got ready for sunset by sitting in a camp chair with a bottle of wine. I was sure there would be some combination of sunset light and the beam that would make the photo as I envisioned it. I made a few photos as the sun was setting while waiting for the light to come on. Almost an hour after the last rays of sunlight and most of the wine gone, I learned the lighthouse had been decommissioned years earlier. Thanks to Photoshop, that beam from the lighthouse appeared after I returned home.

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

White Lighthouse​

Sony A7III, Sigma 90mm f2.8 lens
Sony in camera B&W JPEG
Yokohama, Japan - June 2023
Image is lower resolution than original​

 

[largedrink]

Nugget Point by Hugh B

Otago, N.Z., Rolleiflex 3.5E Xenotar, Ilford FP4 125 film

Took this on an extended South Island road trip last year. Its a spectacular location.

 

[css9450]

Ludington, MI. This lighthouse has a pronounced "lean" to it, due to settlement over the years. Add in the fact that it's base is so oddly shaped (it is shaped like a wedge to help resist damage from ice sheets) it seems there aren't any straight lines on it at all!

 

[Out to Lunch]

Vietnam, Vung Tau, Small Mountain. The lighthouse dog. Epson R-D1 - Zeiss Biogon T* 2.8/28 ZM.

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

...it seems there aren't any straight lines on it at all!

Maybe so, but your horizon is perfectly level!

The image is outstanding! Well done!

All the best,
Mike

 

[maigo]

White Lighthouse​

Sony A7III, Sigma 90mm f2.8 lens
Sony in camera B&W JPEG
Yokohama, Japan - June 2023
Image is lower resolution than original​

Thanks for sharing.
Now I have learned about the museum ships Hikawa Maru and Mikasa.

 

[css9450]

Maybe so, but your horizon is perfectly level!

The image is outstanding! Well done!

All the best,
Mike

Thanks, fortunately that horizon was there because without it I am sure I would have had the whole thing crooked! Easily fixed nowadays with digital but it always bugged me when I'd get my slides back and there would be some that were crooked...

 

[css9450]

Port Washington WI:

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

Yokohama Port "Akatodai" red lighthouse
Built on the end of an isolated breakwater. In service since 1896.
I decided to photograph this lighthouse after reading this news article.



Sony A7III camera
Sigma 100-400mm f5-6.3 DG DN OS Contemporary lens
Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
November 2024​

 

[skopar steve]

Nubble Point Lighthouse York Maine.

 

[skopar steve]

Bass Harbor Light Maine.

 

[mnutzer]

The ridiculous fake lighthouse at Romanshorn on Lake Constance
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[Sanug]

Campen lighthouse, Ostfriesland, Germany.



Praktica MTL5, Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 4/50 mm. Image 1 with red filtre
Adox HR-50, Adox XT-3, 1+3

 

[Sanug]

Same on Fuji slide film.


Praktica MTL5, Meyer Orestor 2.8/100 mm

 

[mnutzer]

The ridiculous fake lighthouse at Romanshorn on Lake Constance - II
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[Retro-Grouch]

Nubble Point Lighthouse York Maine.

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I have more than my share of shots of the Nubble Point Light; every time I drove up the coast, I'd make a detour to give it a try, thinking I'd get something different or striking. But it was always a mob scene of other photographers thinking the same thing, and it felt like the mob scene at Yosemite where everyone is trying to duplicate Ansel's iconic shot of Half Dome. I finally gave up, but your shot is a nice one, and does capture the starkness and beauty of the location. There's a reason it's become such an icon!

 

[skopar steve]

Since I don't live far from Nubble Point ( an hours drive) I try yo go at odd times. Especially during storms or big cloud days. But as you say there is almost always a mob, and no where to park.

 

[Mark240590]

Heard Groyne Lighthouse, River Tyne, England.

Made famous by Barbour who adopted it as their logo 🙂
KMZ ISKRA
Kodak Tmax 400