Anticipation
Sometimes the anticipation of an event can be greater than the event itself. Like for instance, let's say you've become a bit of a photographer and you're thinking about opening a Web Site - Oh My Goodness! Just think of all the anticipation that's involved in that; for years you've talked to people about it and thought about. What do you call it? What should it look like? Why should you bother? Does anybody even care!?!?!?!
They do. People care. I care.
So here we are, the launch of my photography website:
Lynette Johnson Photography
which is easiest to spell if you sound out photo-GRAPH-Y and THIS is the photo that got it all started!
The Last Lighting of the Pigeon Point Lighthouse, Santa Cruz CA.
We were on a bike ride that afternoon, Tandem you know, we ride tandem, which is a story for another day but this day, we were at the coast on a ride with our tandem buddies when we stopped at the Pigeon Point Lighthouse for a rest where I overheard the docent telling her group, "Every year on the 2nd Saturday in November, we light the gas in the first-order Fresnel lens. Photographers come from all around to photograph it."
Oh that sparked me! "Let's come back and get a picture of it on my new camera!" I said.
In November we came back and they were right, there were real photographers there, tons of them shoulder to shoulder ... and me!
Not knowing what I was doing, I set up my camera on my flimsy little plastic tripod, got out my notes and dialed in exactly what the guys at the camera shop had said to do. Raw files, what are those? I was on my Canon Rebel T2i set on .jpg and other such settings that meant little to me at the time ... F stops and apreture, shutter speeds and such... smaller means farther and larger means shorter, but it worked!!
I was so excited to get this photo! It completely changed my view of photography; never before had I experienced long-exposure photography and this was all it took to hook me. I've been exploring night-time photography ever since and boy am I glad. It all started here, at the Pigeon Point Lighthouse, November 2010.
We had no idea then, that THIS would be the LAST time the gas would be lit. The next year, they didn't light it because California was out of money!! The following year they were repaving the parking lot; the year after that it was because, well I don't remember why but each year it was something different until finally they put the antique lens in the museum in town, never to shine from the lighthouse again.
This is the LAST Lighting of the antique Fresnel lens at the Pigeon Point Lighthouse and the FIRST of my nighttime photography adventures which brings me to today; the opening of my long-anticipated website.
Have a look around and see what you think. I'm available for questions or comments, for photography talk and even for pricing info! Just click on the "Contact Lynette" link and we'll be connected in no time!
Sometimes the anticipation of an event is worse than the event itself.
Or BETTER!
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