Tillamook Head Lighthouse
by Sharon Elliott
Title
Tillamook Head Lighthouse
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Sharon Elliott
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Photograph - Photography
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Tillamook Lighthouse from Cannon Beach OR. What a beautiful end to the day. This was the first lighthouse I captured in my trip from Northern Oregon, down the coast to Bandon Beach. I wanted to visit each lighthouse along the way along the beautiful Oregon Coast. This particualr beach is my all-time favorite. There is something about this small town and beach that gives me much peace. I could walk here for countless hours, thinking,meditating and praying. The day was coming to an end here, and even the Sea Gulls were enjoying the quiet of the day.
Tillamook Rock Lighthouse was completed and the oil lamp inside the Fresnel lens was fired up for the first time on January 11, 1881. The light shined almost continuously for the next seventy-six years. It was finally extinguished in September 1957, when the lighthouse was decommissioned and replaced by a bouy. The lighthouse was never automated and during its active years was always manned. The keepers of the Tillamook Rock Lighthouse lived an isolated and lonely existence, even by the standards of their profession. They were often exposed to the worst insults the ocean could throw at them.
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William Fields
Nicely done Sharon! I love the moodiness that the haze creates and the placement of the birds. L
JOHN TELFER
Sharon, Excellent capture of the Tillamook Head Lighthouse out in the middle of the water love the sun's aftermath glowing in the sky as the sun has set on the horizon and the beautiful silhouette of the water rolling into shore, very interesting story about the Tillamook Head Lighthouse, fav and liked
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