The Relighting

Posted by MontereyJohn (Salinas, California, United States) on 18 November 2007 in Architecture and Portfolio.

Sunday, November 18, 2007
Re-lighting 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 lens 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 this one came out to my satisfaction.

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.

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