Beaver Island Lighthouse at High Noon
by Kris Rasmusson
Title
Beaver Island Lighthouse at High Noon
Artist
Kris Rasmusson
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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Beaver Island is the largest island in Lake Michigan and the central island in the Beaver Island archipelago. Located at Beaver Head on the south end of the island, I arrived at the elegant lighthouse on a late Summer day at high noon. I had been there many times before and knew that high noon was best time to get what I was after. There are many platitudes and bromides taught to photography students that channel and stifle their imagination. One of my least favorites is the one about the ‘sweet’ light of early morning and late afternoon and how a landscape photographer cannot get a stellar image without it. In the days when most photographers used Kodachrome, a film with a pathetic five stop exposure latitude, there may have been some truth in it. But to those of us who use T-max 100 film and develop it to achieve ten or more stops of exposure latitude, this is ridiculous. Thus I ascended the spiral staircase confident about capturing the nifty beam of light that poured through the tower window to bathe brick and wrought iron steps in a spectacular show of gradient-radiant light. Not only was the sun aligned perfectly that day, but so were the planets. I was given the staircase for ten minutes!! No tourists, no government employees, nothing but quietude to set up view camera and Gitzo tripod and snatch one of my favorite photographs.
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January 26th, 2011
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