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Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 28-70mm f/2.8D IF-ED

01/27/2011 01:04:26 PM · #1

Heceta Head is one of the most impressive lighthouses on the Oregon USA coast.

Heceta Head

1/1000s f/8.0 at 600.0mm iso400 - Canon EF 300mm F/4 USM + Canon 2X Extender - 1/19/2011

Heceta Head Lighthouse

1/320s f/11.0 at 105.0mm iso400 - Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM - 1/19/2011

Heceta LH in BW

1/250s f/16.0 at 31.0mm iso400 - Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM - 1/19/2011

The Lighthouse Light

1/250s f/7.1 at 22.0mm iso800 - Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM - 1/19/2011
Inside the Lighthouse

1/10s f/2.8 at 22.0mm iso800 - Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM - 1/19/2011

Heceta Head Lighthouse is located on the Oregon Coast 13 miles (21 km) north of Florence, Oregon and 13 miles (21 km) south of Yachats, Oregon, USA.

Built in 1894, the 56-foot (17 m) tall lighthouse shines a beam visible for 21 miles (34 km), making it the strongest light on the Oregon Coast.

The lighthouse is an operating navigation beam which still has its original 1st order Fresnel lens. Its oil burning wick has been replaced with two incandescent bulbs. The Fresnel lens rotates on gears to direct a rotating beam of light out to sea.

Heceta Head is named after the Spanish explorer Bruno de Heceta, who explored the Pacific Northwest during the late 18th century.

Message edited by author 2011-01-27 13:29:56.

hihosilver

Nikon D200

01/27/2011 01:20:39 PM · #2

Steve, I see your usually well-composed images once again bring to us the beauty of this remarkable lighthouse. Good stuff!

GeneralE

Canon PowerShot S3 IS

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

01/27/2011 01:35:33 PM · #3

Your nice close-up views, not so often seen, help one have more of a sense of what it would have been like to live/work there in the old days. The longer views (like mine) make the lighthouse into just another part of a fantasy landscape, but viewed from without rather than pulling you in and making you feel a part of the story.

I didn't have time to stop and visit the lighthouse, but I did pause at the highway turnout to get a couple of views last time I drove south this way.

01/27/2011 01:43:29 PM · #4

Originally posted by hihosilver:

Steve, I see your usually well-composed images once again bring to us the beauty of this remarkable lighthouse. Good stuff!

Long time... no see... in case you are interested my complete collection of Oregon Lighthouses are here:
//www.pbase.com/azleader/lighthouses

A couple other lighthouses in Washington at Cape Disappointment can be found here:
//www.pbase.com/azleader/wa_cape_disappointment

Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 28-70mm f/2.8D IF-ED

01/27/2011 01:48:28 PM · #5

Originally posted by GeneralE:

Yours is the more classic view of Heceta... and I think much better than mine. At the time I wanted something different and shot it at 600mm only. I should have switched lenses and taken classic views as well. Whoops! ;)

hihosilver

Nikon D200

01/27/2011 04:01:50 PM · #6

Oh! the Yaquina lighthouse images portray sunset, fog and tons of interior history and drama. That one's a beauty!

amathiasphoto

Nikon D300

Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 EX DG APO IF for Nikon

01/27/2011 04:21:34 PM · #7

Heceta Head is one of my favorite places on earth. Will be staying in the B&B there in just a few weeks. Anyway, though I don't know how to create a thumbnail or image here from an external site, I figured I'd throw my photo into the heceta lighthouse discussion. So, an HDR view of heceta head from about 4 years ago-

HDR Heceta Head

GeneralE

Canon PowerShot S3 IS

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

01/27/2011 04:36:19 PM · #8

Originally posted by amathiasphoto:

Anyway, though I don't know how to create a thumbnail or image here from an external site ...

If you are hosting your images at your own or other site, you can:
1. create your own thumbnail version and upload to your site
2. make a hypertext link to the image, as you did previously
3. in place of entering a text description for the image's URL, enter the URL of the thumbnail image you created, surrounded by the [img][/img] tags

It should display the small image in your post, and clicking on that should take the viewer to the original (large) image at your site -- you can test it out using the "Preview" button.

Here is an example from my gallery at pBase; you can quote this post to see how the code is structured.

amathiasphoto

Nikon D300

Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 EX DG APO IF for Nikon

01/27/2011 04:57:54 PM · #9

Alright, we'll test it out! Here is the HDR one-

and thanks for that general