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I’d never been up in the top of a working lighthouse before. Not just the room below the main light and the walkway that usually surrounds that. Instead the glass room right up the top with the actual rotating lighting assembly. I’d been up in this section in some other lighthouses that were no longer operation but this was a first.

The ladder was there and the trapdoor open so I poked my head up to take a look. The lighting was great – it was a great big glass bubble after all :). During the day the actual light wasn’t on thankfully.

Lighting the Way

NIKON D750 + 14.0 mm f/2.8 @ 14 mm, 1/500 sec at f/8, ISO 100

Somehow my camera followed and started taking images :). This rotating pillar for the light and the large black flags out each side looked quite interesting. I decided to make a feature of them in the big glass cavern.

I was taking these handheld and it was quite bright both outside and inside (with clear blue skies). The contrast was just a touch too wide here so I decided to bracket my handheld frames just in case.

The first image above is a HDR merge of three exposures (-2 & 1/3EV to -1/3EV) and the image below is a merge of five exposures (-3 & 1/3EV to 2/3EV).

Lightstand

NIKON D750 + 14.0 mm f/2.8 @ 14 mm, 1/500 sec at f/8, ISO 100

It’s not everyday you get to be on the inside of one of these glass domes looking out. Of course these days the light assembly is much diminished from days gone by. When this lighthouse was first built there was probably this huge glass fresnel lens assembly taking up most of the space. Today all that has been replaced by this small LED unit. Still pretty cool tho :).

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