After days of taking and processing hundreds of photos, I have sort of burned out. All things photographic remain exciting. I have 7 photos in the Museum Week Art Show (yay!!) and Livingstone Studio, one of the art galleries on the island, is now carrying several of my photos (another yay!!). It's fun to be seen as a member of the island artist community, though I mostly feel like an impostor. My display board is captured in my extras album: http://365project.org/taffy/the-also-ran-ph/2013-07-16.
So, I came to take this photo because I got to Whiskey Point too late to photograph the kids "fish painting" (another museum week festivity). The light was good so I thought it was timely just to do a Beaver Island posting. I took four shots, but the others were all vertical and I thought this captured the lighthouse setting better. To the right you can see a stone memorial to Beaver Islanders lost at sea.
Below is information from Wikipedia that matches what I've understood from island historians. Beaver Island Harbor Light (or St. James Light) is a lighthouse located in St. James Township, Michigan on the northern end of Beaver Island on Lake Michigan. It has also been called "St. James Harbor Light" and "Whiskey Point Light." It is associated with a U.S. Coast Guard station, which was formerly a lifesaving station.[4] The tower is constructed of Cream City Brick.
Whiskey Point was originally named for the 1838 fur trading post that operated on the point, and for the commodity that was the post's chief item of sale. Soon afterward in the 1850s, St. James's Harbor on Beaver Island became established as a safe haven in a storm (an event quite common on Lake Michigan). The light was thus a natural extension of the emergency usage. The original light was constructed in 1856, and the light currently in use was constructed in 1870. At this time, the harbor is used by the Beaver Island ferry, so the light is still an active aid to navigation.
Wonderful photo! And congratulations on your becoming a part of the art community. You should feel good about it, your work is always amazing. This one does not disappoint. I love it and would buy it in a gallery...or at least would WANT to!!! FAV!!!
This is gorgeous Taffy. Sorry to hear that you are suffering a bit of a burn out though. I tend to think that it is temporary and is more like a wee overload!
This is a wonderful lighthouse. I like the rough look on the brick washout of the tower. Yay to all the success you are having with your photographs :)
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Thanks Gena, Susale, Barb, Kim, Paul, Ana, and Jayn! It is exciting and something that would never happen in Chicago! So, no matter what happens, I'm glad to be part of this experience - knowing how lucky I am to be living in this wonderful small community all summer! Thank you all for your encouraging words about my photos! And Paul, you're right...I think I just overdid it with the Garden Tour. I hadn't considered the time once the photos had been taken, just to process and get to the folks who asked for them!
Wonderful shot Taffy! The history is so interesting too. Congrats on the museum art show! It all sounds so exciting and fab that you are recognized as part of the artistic community! Please let us know how you get on! I am Sure they will love your work!
Taffy, that is so great, to have your work in a gallery!!!! Huge, huge congrats on that!!!
And I love this photo, another one to be proud of! Nice saturated colors and very nice composition and POV with great sense of depth and scale (the lighthouse really looks so huge compared to the memorial)!
Thank you for your encouragement! The color was heightened a bit using HDR as a first step -- it was that blue, but the light was still pretty bright even for evening and it looked washed out initially. It's fun to watch the ferry come in from there.
I love lighthouses. This is such a GREAT shot. How fun for you to have some photos in the art show. Way to go!!!! Thanks for stopping by my project, and commenting.
First and foremost- congratulations on having your photos displayed and for sale!! This is a lovely shot- I love light houses to begin with! But the colors here are really nice too. I was reading your history and wondered if this area was connected with the Gordon Lightfoot song The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald. I know it's about one of the Great Lakes, but I can't remember which one! I'll have to dig out the CD later. Any way, beautiful shot- so excited for you!
@dreamatrix@yonnie@elisasaeter@willowdragon@kareenking@zambianlass@archaeofrog@humphreyhippo@38dcmoder@pflaume@olivetreeann@kerristephens I'm so pleased that you liked the lighthouse image! I was just reading in the Beaver Beacon (our monthly magazine which was sent to Chicago, so I just was reading the June issue tonite) said they are doing a major renovation to replace windows, bricks, put in a new staircase, clean up, etc. starting June 28th. I had to laugh...do you see any sign of work on it??? Ann, the Edmond Fitzgerald went down in Lake Superior, which (for our international friends), is the deepest, largest, and coldest of the Great Lakes, furthest north on the border of the US and Canada. Lake Michigan has its share of wrecks and is considered the most dangerous of the lakes to sail on, because of the very unpredictable winds. But none made as famous as Lightfoot's song did for the EF.
Lovely shot, much better viewed large. Congratulations on your photos in the show and gallery. And I sympathize entirely about processing and delivering hundreds of photos, I've done it many times. When you're back in town we can discuss workflow. Lightroom helps a lot.
@danielwsc Thanks Daniel! I was thinking actually of all the volunteer work you did with the kids' programs. I can't imagine keeping up with that as you do! And thanks for viewing large -- I'm glad I got to take the photo before the restoration starts (it apparently was supposed to go under renovation almost three weeks ago).
@taffy I thought it might be Superior (because of the lyrics) but couldn't remember for sure. Well, now I don't have to go dig out the CD! Although I might have to listen to the song tomorrow because it's playing in my head now!
Thanks Gena, Susale, Barb, Kim, Paul, Ana, and Jayn! It is exciting and something that would never happen in Chicago! So, no matter what happens, I'm glad to be part of this experience - knowing how lucky I am to be living in this wonderful small community all summer! Thank you all for your encouraging words about my photos! And Paul, you're right...I think I just overdid it with the Garden Tour. I hadn't considered the time once the photos had been taken, just to process and get to the folks who asked for them!
And I love this photo, another one to be proud of! Nice saturated colors and very nice composition and POV with great sense of depth and scale (the lighthouse really looks so huge compared to the memorial)!
Thank you for your encouragement! The color was heightened a bit using HDR as a first step -- it was that blue, but the light was still pretty bright even for evening and it looked washed out initially. It's fun to watch the ferry come in from there.