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Relatively normal treatment here … Crazy HDR color saturation on this one …

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I’ve gone lighthouse crazy lately. I’ve photographed, at present count, 34 separate lighthouses in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, and even two in Nova Scotia. There is one photo of each lighthouse in this Flickr set. You can see a wider collection of my photos tagged with “lighthouse”.

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Took a little trip to Annisquam Lighthouse over the weekend. Top: HDR technique. Bottom: stitched about 6 images in Photoshop.

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I’m kind of pleased with how this one came out. It’s an HDR image of Point Judith Lighthouse, taken yesterday evening.

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Daughter and I took a boat tour to Rose Island, off the coast of Newport yesterday. The tour combined a trip to the Rose Island lighthouse with seal watching. The tour is run jointly by Save the Bay, which promotes awareness of Narragansett Bay ecology, and the Rose Island Lighthouse foundation, which restored and maintains [...]

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This lighthouse is on an island in Boston Harbor, accessible only by boat.

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Took a sunset “photo cruise” tonight. Got a nice photo of this lighthouse. Very little editing here, this is pretty much the way it came out of the camera: Ok, I added the seagull in Photoshop, but the rest is pretty much true to the scene.

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Highland Light (Cape Cod Light), in Truro, taken during our Cape trip in August. As I get better at this technique, it becomes clear that there is no need for a photo to have an empty sky, ever.

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