The Lighthouse

[eregyrn]

So, a couple of weeks ago, I went again to visit my Mom down on the Jersey Shore; because this summer she had her 80th birthday, and to celebrate it, my brother rented a house a block from her so that his entire family (grown children and spouses) could converge, since Mom's place doesn't have the room (and has a cat, to whom my nephew's wife is

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[okojosan]

I love the photos! What beautiful weather you had that day. It looks like it was almost impossible to take a bad photo.

Is that the beach that was covered in snow last winter? Can you see your mom's house from the lighthouse?

[eregyrn]

I'm sure this beach was ALSO covered in snow last winter, yeah. But my Mom lives in the middle of the island, which is 18 miles long, and this is on the northern tip. So you really can't meaningfully see her house (and anyway it would be blocked by taller houses).

Although, as I'll demonstrate with the pics tomorrow -- from the high deck of a house just a block over from hers, I was able to take a very blurry pic showing the top of the Lighthouse. (We've always known that on certain clear days, the Lighthouse is juuuust visible to the naked eye when you are driving across the bridge onto the island, which hits the island more or less at its midpoint.)

[catspaw_sgjd]

Beautiful pics :-)

Also - what pretty feet you have *g*

[eregyrn]

Why thank you! :) Foot, anyway.

[jenlev]

Wow, great shots, fabulous sky. *hugs*

[eregyrn]

Thanks! Yes, I particularly like the sky in that first shot. Really was perfect weather.

[jenlev]

Looks gorgeous.

PS> Er...just posted a drunken moose story. :)

[cofax7]

Wow, you've got a great lens on that camera, to get such a good shot of the lantern room from below.

The original Fresnel lenses do give some fantastic pictures when they're still in operation. Here's an example: Pigeon Point Light, on the one day a year that the old lens gets lit. (And probably the last day for a while: they're planning to take the lens out so the building can be stabilized.)

Anyway, these are great photos! Thanks for sharing them.

[eregyrn]

Hah, my first thought was, what do you mean? They had a plexiglas ceiling inside the top keeping us from climbing up alongside the lens, but it had a bunch of 8" diameter holes cut in it, so I just stuck my camera right up into that opening and took the shot...

Oh, right, you mean the one of the entire top of the lighthouse taken from below. Gotcha.

Oooooohhhh! That is SUCH a cool shot of the Pigeon Point light. Maaaaan. Now I really want to be able to see an old Fresnel lens in operation in person, darnit. However, I don't think my camera can do the kind of extended exposures you'd need to get a shot like that. But boy, that's neat.