Ade McCabe
The Old and the New.
Flamborough Old and New Lighthouses.
The new lighthouse isn't exactly new. It was built in 1806 to guide ships to Bridlington and Scarborough. The old lighthouse dates back to 1674 with very little evidence that it was ever lit.
The new lighthouse was the first in the country to utilise coloured glass to differentiate it from the lighthouse further south at Cromer in Norfolk, with seafarers learning the mnemonic "Two whites to one red / indicates Flamboro' Head."
Interesting reading up about the history of lighthouses around the UK's coast. I never realised, though it makes complete sense, that every lighthouse has it's own unique signal. Something that I had noticed flying the drone the evening before from this same field and trying to coordinate the flashes with taking an image. It now flashes four white lights in close succession every 15 seconds.
As usual, with so many people drawn to the headland to watch sunrise and sunset I didn't feel comfortable flying the drone so retreated to this recently harvested field an hour or so before sunset.
I'd bought a Freewell circular polariser a few weeks ago and this was the first time I'd use it. Took a few attempts taking an image then landing and changing the position of the polariser to have it only affect the sky. The low sun was bringing out the colour in the field and didn't need anything added to it further, though the light leakage in the bottom right corner is something I need to have a play with.
The Old and the New.
Flamborough Old and New Lighthouses.
The new lighthouse isn't exactly new. It was built in 1806 to guide ships to Bridlington and Scarborough. The old lighthouse dates back to 1674 with very little evidence that it was ever lit.
The new lighthouse was the first in the country to utilise coloured glass to differentiate it from the lighthouse further south at Cromer in Norfolk, with seafarers learning the mnemonic "Two whites to one red / indicates Flamboro' Head."
Interesting reading up about the history of lighthouses around the UK's coast. I never realised, though it makes complete sense, that every lighthouse has it's own unique signal. Something that I had noticed flying the drone the evening before from this same field and trying to coordinate the flashes with taking an image. It now flashes four white lights in close succession every 15 seconds.
As usual, with so many people drawn to the headland to watch sunrise and sunset I didn't feel comfortable flying the drone so retreated to this recently harvested field an hour or so before sunset.
I'd bought a Freewell circular polariser a few weeks ago and this was the first time I'd use it. Took a few attempts taking an image then landing and changing the position of the polariser to have it only affect the sky. The low sun was bringing out the colour in the field and didn't need anything added to it further, though the light leakage in the bottom right corner is something I need to have a play with.