Point Sur Light at Dawn

Adding to the light house folio is this film image of Point Sur lighthouse at dawn on a winter morning

Point Pinos Lighthouse

This light at the scenic Pt Pinos in Pacific Grove, California, was first lit in 1858 and is the oldest continuously operating light in California.

I am going to try to put a portfolio of lighthouse images together.

Here is a start.

Relighting the Pigeon Point Light

Today Will, a friend and I traveled over to Pigeon Point Lighthouse for the annual relighting. It was cold and foggy, which was the good news and the bad news. Bad because it was just plain miserable. Good because the fog made the beams of light coming from the old Frisnel lense really pop.

As fate would have it, I left the camera mount to my tripod in the car. I was not about to walk the better part of a mile back through wind and fog to get it. I shot my images freehand only relying on a fence post or bench to steady the camera. As a result, many of the images were pretty bad. But the one to the right came out to my satisfaction. I'll put up a few others as well.

After we left Pigeon Point we headed for Pescadero to get something to eat at Duartes, a place I really like. It has an old west feel to it in this long forgotten byway of a town. However, a few thousand other people from Pigeon Point had the same idea. So, off we went to Will's place in San Jose where Sue whipped up a lovely dinner for us.

It was then back down the 101 to Salinas and home.

And here it is 1:15 in the morning and I'm playing with the pix!

Time for bed, folks.

Pigeon Point Light at Dusk

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Monday Evening at Pigeon Point

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Lighthouse and Ice Plants in Bloom - Film Image

I have been going through the portfolio and "tweaking" in Lightroom. This shot of Pigeon Point Light with the ice plants in bloom struck me for some reason. I shot this with my trusty Minolta 700si.

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Playing with Picassa2

No idea why I'm doing this, just curious to see how it works I guess.

That's enough bloggy stuff for one day.

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Pigeon Pt Light III - Keeper's House

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The afternoon light was nice at the location. This keeper's house is not in good shape, and hunks of the upper light tend to fall, large cast iron pieces. So the site is chain linked off. Again Mr. Clone Stamp came in handy here... voila, the fence is gone!

The light is now funded for restoration thanks to the historic foundation and American Express.

Pigeon Pt Light II

Another shot of Pidgeon Point Light. Love that cold winter sky.

I noticed when I brought this image up when I got home, the was schmutz all over the place. It was some of that darned foam I referred to yesterday. It had gotten on the UV filter. Thank goodness for the clone stamp in PS!

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Dusk After the Storm

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This one is for Laurie.

After a disappointment on my eye, it didn't get zapped today, I consoled myself by driving over the coastal mountains from Palo Alto to Pescadero. Well! We had a storm blow through here last night. 100mph winds in some areas. When I got to the coast it was mere 50mph zephyrs. Sheesh. You could not see the surf for all the foam. The foam was blowing across Highway 1 several hundred yards from the waters edge. It looked like a washing machine that had overflowed.

I drove down the coast to Pigeon Point and caught the late afternoon/dusk light. It was cold and windy as hell, but at least it was far enough above sea level to get out of the foam. I had a good time!

For Micki, a Film Image - Pigeon Point Lighthouse

A film image of Pigeon Point Lighthouse. This is one of my favorite locations. It is between Santa Cruz and Half Moon Bay.


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Pigeon Point Lighthouse

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