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The 38 foot tall Mukilteo Lighthouse was constructed in 1905. On our return trip we stopped to take night photos of it. This was the fourth lighthouse seen on our two day trip.
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Hello to all of my Flickr friends. I hope everyone is enjoying their Summer. We are having an unusual Summer here in the Pacific Northwest. Clear, warm cloudless days! Okay this shot was on one of those days when we had some clouds. Otherwise with me being busy and the clear skies, I have not been out shooting too much.
This day I wanted to get up to Mukilteo to shoot the quaint little lighthouse at sunset. I live over 40 miles from this spot and it can either be a boon or a bust when it comes to our sunset light in Puget Sound. Well I was happy to say it was not a complete bust here as the clouds did light up a little.
This is a combination of three exposures (-2,0,+2) merged and tonemapped in Photomatix. I then did a perspective crop on the lighthouse and did some "Dodge and Burn" in Photoshop. I then moved to Lightroom and pulled back the saturation a bit in the greens and brought down the luminosity of the oranges and yellows. I finished off by applying a little noise removal and sharpening.
Thank you for your support, views, comments and faves. I do appreciate them. As I have said a bit earlier this year, I have been a "Lurker" here on Flickr lately with how busy I have been. Again, I hope everyone is enjoying the Summer weather where you are, and for those of you south of the equator, I hope you are enjoying your Winter.
Here are several other shots of this charming little lighthouse next to the Mukilteo/Clinton Ferry terminal: www.flickr.com/photos/fresnatic/5267813297/in/set-7215762... www.flickr.com/photos/fresnatic/4832194029/in/set-7215762...
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As if the Mukilteo Lighthouse wasn't cute enough, every year it is fully decked out for Christmas--with wreaths, snowflakes, and Christmas lights covering the whole thing. There is even a person who looks suspiciously like Santa Claus perched up in the top of the lighthouse itself. I hadn't actually seen it in person, but this past Friday I finally made it down there at the right time of year and wasn't disappointed a bit. I even brought my camera along.
Here's wishing you and yours peace and happiness during the holidays. May your feet stay dry, your hands warm, and your heart full.
Dropped my brother off at the ferry. And took some photographs around the park. The photo is of the Mukilteo lighthouse.
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I have always wanted a shot of the Mukilteo Lighthouse with it's Christmas lights on. I really wanted some snow on it, but the lights were not on it when we had our last snow in November. I usually will not do a straight on shot of a building because of the distortion that is created by the camera lens, which I fixed somewhat in Photoshop with a perspective crop.
As I might create a Christmas card out of this, I did not want one of the Washington State Ferries in the shot. I have another from my usual side angle that has a ferry in it, but I thought it would distract from the lighthouse in this case. Here is one of my older shots: www.flickr.com/photos/fresnatic/4832194029/
This is three exposures (-2,0,+2) merged and tonemapped in Photomatix 4.0. Oh how I love the new de-ghosting tool in Photomatix 4.0. The wind was blowing at a good clip, so those icicle lights were moving during the lengthened exposures. I perspective cropped in Photoshop CS5 and erased some of the ghosting that Photomatix did not take care of. Added the Vignette in Lightroom 3.0.
Thank you for the views, comments and faves. I appreciate them. I also want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Here's a shot from December 21st down at the Mukilteo Lighthouse in Mukilteo, Washington. We were gifted with what can recently be characterized as freakishly nice weather--which is to stay that it stopped raining and the sun was actually visible. I couldn't pass up the opportunity to drag the kids outside and do some shooting at one of my favorite locations close to home.
First, yes this is real. This is a shot just as a storm was breaking at sunset at the Mukilteo Lighthouse in Mukilteo, Washington. A ferry, I believe the Cathlamet, is also visible just to the right of the lighthouse, docked at the ferry terminal.
The story: So there I was at a local diner, like usual. A summer storm had moved in and it was pouring down rain outside. I was absent-mindedly stabbing the cherry in my Shirley Temple, contemplating whether or not to go down to the beach for some sunset pics. The maraschino juice from the impaled fruit flowed into the tonic in little red clouds. I glanced up at my kids, and in their eyes I saw relief. Relief that it was raining and they wouldn't have to endure watching me take pictures of the same lighthouse in Mukilteo yet one more time.
I glanced outside, towards the west, and saw an ever-so-slight break in the clouds. There were forty-five minutes until sunset. I could make it. My kids' glance moved from me, to the sky, to me. Their expressions changed. They knew. I wasn't going to miss it.
I paid the bill, quaffed my Shirley Temple in one gulp, and bolted for the door. I threw my kids in the back, gingerly and delicately set my camera gear in the passenger seat, and raced for Mukilteo. After thirty minutes, during which time I expanded my kids' vocabulary at several stop lights, we arrived just in time to catch a truly magnificent sunset right behind the lighthouse. My kids' response to this glorious spectacle? "Oh yeah, that's great Dad..."
I've been wanting to get this shot of the Mukilteo Lighthouse for some time. Although it's surrounded closely by support buildings, this isolated effect was made possible by using a fisheye lens. It might look more dramatic with some storm clouds, but a brilliant Autumn sunrise isn't too shabby.
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The clouds were doing really interesting things as sunset was drawing near so I thought, "At last, this is my chance!" Snapped on the fisheye, left all other lenses at home (otherwise I couldn't resist the temptation to use a different lens), and tore down to Mukilteo in the hopes of catching the lighthouse at Mukilteo with some cool colors and clouds behind it. Thankfully, some of them were still around by the time I got down there!
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So, I've always been into HDR, as i'm not good enough to get by in most situations without it. It's funny how sometimes making something completely outrageous seems like a good idea, but looking back it was pretty much disgusting. Sometimes I just don't know what I was thinking... haha
Since the weather has been icky, and since I've been pretty busy at work, I haven't taken many pictures in a while... so I thought i'd spend a few minutes this morning making this one from the Mukilteo Lighthouse a bit more tasteful and pretty.
With the new software I got several months ago, I have been going back into the archives to look for photos that I could improve. This is a shot from last June, and is a later in the evening shot versus the one that I posted much earlier in my stream. This one includes the Whidbey Island car ferry.
I remember that sunset was awesome, but I was hell bent on not moving my camera from the position I thought was the best! I have learned a lot since then. Don't just take all of your photos from one spot! Get some variety! The only things that changed in this particular series of photos I took that night, was that the light changed in the sky and the clouds moved, and I either had the ferry in the shot or not! Not much variety! I do move around now to get all sorts of angles when I shoot photos.
This is actually one image tonemapped in Photomatix, and then cropped in Photoshop. There was some up and down motion with the ferry, so I thought one image would be better here! I also ran the photo through Topaz Adjust and then ran the photo through Topaz Denoise twice, to clean up the sky. Some dodging, burning, and spot desaturation of color were also done in Photoshop. Final adjustments were completed inLightroom2.
I know there are some in the photographic community whom frown on so much postprocessing. To them I would say that everyone is an artist and sees things differently. I am a color junkie, so I like to create images that are full of color and life. I do wait for the "Perfect" conditions to take my photos and do not add or Photoshop in the sky or other major features. I use the software to clean up artifacts, such as an unwanted telephone pole, or correct the perspective that sometimes results from our lenses. I feel that all of us here on Flickr are artists, and somewhat could be called "Digital Artists."
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We took the ferry to Whidbey Island. Since we arrived closed to ferry departure time, there was no opportunity to photograph the Lighthouse from land. This shot was taken from the ferry as we left the dock.
The Mukilteo Lighthouse was built in 1906 at the cost of $27,000.00. The Lighthouse was operated by the Coast Guard for many years but was turned over to the City of Mukilteo in 2001. Two families of Lighthouse keepers lived for many years in the houses on either side of the Lighthouse.
I finally decided to stop by the lighthouse last night after work to check out what looked like a decent sunset. It ended up being less exciting than I had thought, so I set up shop and snapped a few HDR's instead =)
For some dumb reason I shot it at a weird angle then had to use the lens correction filter in photoshop to try to straighten it out... its still not perfect, but its a hell of a lot closer.
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April 30, 2009 Explore #195
I downloaded the trial for Topaz Adjust and spent some time playing with some of the ligthhouse shots from a week or so ago... I'm not certain I like the results, although I hardly know what I am doing with the program yet.
Mukilteo, Washington
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It was one of those all-to-rare perfect Spring Saturdays in the Northwest. It was unseasonably warm and sunny, so (naturally), there were roughly 10-15 thousand people crammed into a 500 foot stretch of beach down in at Mukilteo Lighthouse Park. But, the fates smiled, and was somehow able to obtain a person-free shot of the lighthouse at sunset with one of the ferries coming in from Whidbey Island. Just to the right of this shot, my 10-year-old daughter is set up with her tripod shooting away as I try to pass some of my vast photographic wisdom to the new generation. ;)
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Original Photograph International Copyright Jan Bussey
Mukilteo, Washington
(Assistant Keeper’s House
(Later called Quarters B by the Coast Guard)
This house, built in 1905-1906 as part of the Mukilteo
Light Station, was designed by Carl W. Leick. The first
Family to occupy this house was that of the first
Assistant Lighthouse Keeper, David O. Kinyon.
The photo shows how the original light station was
built on a spit of land between Possession Sound and
a tidal lagoon which extended back to the railroad.
From the left, the buildings are: the windmill, which
Provided fresh water; the coal and oil shed, which
stored fuel for the compressor, the lamp, and the
houses; the Assistant Keeper’s house; the lighthouse;
and the Keeper’s house. A garage was added in 1928.
Today’s foghorn is behind the enclosure near the water
and is fully automated. When the sensor unit detects
fog within one-half mile of the light station, the horn
sounds for three seconds and then is silent for
twenty-seven seconds.
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Thank-you for your visit!
I really appreciate it!
Sonja
....Puget Sound - Washighton State.
And this is for Candie who posted a photo recently she took of this same lighthouse...
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Which then prompted me to dig out this 35mm shot taken by hubbie from the ferry also (except 20 years ago) then scan it, edit it a bit, and upload it here.
Lacey