It is infrequent that you get a chance to do a close walk up on a lighthouse. There is one at Owl Nest in Camden, ME area, but for the most part the walk ups are rare. Here in Scituate Harbor, Massachusetts you can move around this 1800′s era structure for about 270 degrees. This is a working lighthouse and is heavily vistited due to its close proximity to some heavily populated cities, a working harbor, and a wonderful long breakwater rock walk.
For this Image, some special gear was used for the first time. I still chuckle as I laid almost prone, framing the 16mm fish, when a visitor asked what I was doing. Most have not been obvious, as I laid sprawled out on the visitor trail, with my DLSR and tri-pod inches hanging vertically inches from my face.
In any event, the wonderful, sea-blue sky, had some interesting wisps of clouds which swirled around the peak of the light house. Blue and white are two very strong colors, which really work well together in this vertical Image.
There is a sign posted at the entrance of the Lighthouse, about a true story of two young girls who, during a British invasion of the harbor in 1812 , had the fortitude to play the drums and fife which convinced the British to rethink the incursion which left the harbor and area unscathed. The girls have written themselves into local history as the Lighthouse Army of Two.
