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I love lighthouses, and I'm sure there must be a few lurkling in people's archives. Here are three views of one of my favourites at Rubha Nan Gall on the Isle of Mull, just to get you started.

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18-70 kit, 1/40 F22 ISO80 @28mm
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18-70 kit, 1/80 F25 ISO80 @28mm
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These are from a trip in August 2007. F stops and ISO was all new then and I had not realised that F16+ was probably not a good choice. The kit was my only lens at this point. The good thing with using Raw is that you always go back and have another play with PP.

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I like #3 most. Excellent colors and composition.
Good work. :D
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I'm with the Doc on this one. There are billions of photos of lighthouses and the sea, but this one is very pretty with the texture of a sea of grass instead!
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Birma wrote:I love lighthouses, and I'm sure there must be a few lurkling in people's archives. Here are three views of one of my favourites at Rubha Nan Gall on the Isle of Mull, just to get you started.
Here's one of mine...
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This one is off Anglesea. I am sure I have others, but it's a start!
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I dont have that many lighthouses I'm afraid... but here's two from my Flickr stream:

Staviken's lighthouse
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The leaning lighthouse of Otterbäcken
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harveyzone wrote:
Birma wrote:I love lighthouses, and I'm sure there must be a few lurkling in people's archives. Here are three views of one of my favourites at Rubha Nan Gall on the Isle of Mull, just to get you started.
Here's one of mine...
Here are couple more....

This one is at Portland Bill in Dorset:
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And this one is Hartland Point Lighthouse, North Devon:
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... Shame about the blown highlights on this one :(
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All right, I don't like to repost things I have posted earlier, but then again....

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I apologize to those that saw it already...

By the way, Birma, I really like the second one.

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harveyzone wrote:
harveyzone wrote:
Birma wrote:I love lighthouses, and I'm sure there must be a few lurkling in people's archives. Here are three views of one of my favourites at Rubha Nan Gall on the Isle of Mull, just to get you started.
Here's one of mine...
Here are couple more....
Blimey - it is amazing how many you can find when you look!

Here is a fourth one. This is actually a church at Ilfracombe, Devon, but the tower doubles as a light house, which is caught on one of it's flashes in the first shot...
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The last one has a feint rainbow over it which you can just about make out. It was very strong when I first saw it, but by the time I had grabbed the camera it had faded. Oh well.
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Thanks to everyone for your comments, and thanks to Zeb, Tom and Jonathan for more lighthouses. I especially like the church and leaning wooden one!

Kevin, I'm glad you got the grass thing. I've never really managed to capture long grass as I've wanted to but the journey continues :) .
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... and more lighthouses

All with 18-70 kit

1/200 F13.0 ISO100 @ 60mm
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Lismore Lighthouse, the Sound of Mull, Scotland

1/320 F9.0 ISO100 @ 70mm
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Longstone Lighthouse, Farne Islands, NE England

1/200 F10.0 ISO100 @ 18mm
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Farne Lighthouse, Farne Islands, NE England

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For your further enjoyment :)
English and Welsh Lighthouses http://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/interacti ... index.html
Scottish Lighthouses http://www.nlb.org.uk/ourlights/library.htm
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those last 3 shots are marvelous. Thanks for sharing Birma. :D
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Thanks Doc!

One last pic, a bit tenuous, the small dot in the centre of the horizon is Coquest Lighthouse - honest :) Anyway, I just like the pic, and at least it's by the sea.

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Beautiful. :D
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Lovely Lighthouse photo Sonolta. Great with all of the sailing craft around the harbour. Those seats are high up! Multiple types of photo opportunity from one venue (and perhaps seat?) - brilliant.
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Hahah.. That's awesome Sonolta. Nice with multi-purpose arenas :mrgreen:
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