LIGHTHOUSES OF THE WORLD.

Then I've succeed in my mission!

That's so cute! Little baby lightbulb thinks its a lighthouse! Aww!

Le Stiff - northeast point of Ouessant (Ushant) Island, off west tip of Brittany/France. The present lantern was added to the lighthouse in 1831.

Any idea why it appears to be twinned, Walter?

http://www.csmonitor.com/CSM-Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2009/Photos-of-the-Day-12-30/(photo)/9

No, but there are two one-story keeper's houses and outbuildings as well.
(Sorry for not responding earlier.)

The tower is just described as "two adjacent white round stone towers".
"This magnificent seventeenth century lighthouse was built at the order of Louis XIV's chief military engineer, the Marquis de Vauban [1681 construction started, finished 1699, lights were working since 1700]. It displayed an open fire until 1820, when the first lantern was installed; in 1831 the present lantern and one of the first large Fresnel lenses were added. Keepers staffed the lighthouse until 1993."

When the New Year sunrise is sweeping across our country, the first spot that the sunrise is seen is at the West Quoddy Lighthouse near Lubec Maine. This is the most easterly point in the continental US. (Obviously Hawaii, by crossing the dateline is more easterly as a technicality but this spot is where the druids go to bring in the new years)

While Googling away, trying to find an elusive Edward Hopper painting the other night, I came across this. It's called The Lighthouse at Two Lights. I didn't know Hopper was an admirer & painter of lighthouses, too. Not sure if it's been posted here already. Anyone know the actual location of this painting?

The light is on "Two Lights State Park" near Cape Elizabeth Maine. CApe Elizabeth is a small peninsula about 15 miles S of Portland Maine. The lighthouse is third most popular to the East Quoddy HEad (canada) and Cape Neddick lights in being photographed by tourists. There are about 50 lights up the MAine Coast, most have been replaced or are in private hands.

Heres the only picture I have of the CApe Liz lighthouse. Its Hoppers and you can see the tower. This is just from another angle of perspective

Ah, thank you, farmer.
Now I'm going to do a little online map scrutiny so's I can locate the actual spot.
I really like that painting. But then I'm a bit of a fan of Hopper's.

google up Lighthouses of Maine or New England. Its a photo club site that is always loading new shots of lighthouses up and down the EAst Coast. If you see any neat ones, please post ok? I like Hoppers watercolors. When he was a student with Robert Henri, he picked up some of the bad habits of"The Eight" and was awild ass watercolorist. His oils are a bit staged for my liking, but his sense of place and unfettering the landscape so that he gets his point of being alone quite clearly. Even his figures, whenever he paints figures, look like zombies with vacant looks as if into themselves.

Thanks again, farmer.

Will do, later on in the day. And if I find anything I think might interest you guys, I certainly will post here.

I've had a lovely time checking out the lighthouses of Maine (& New England), farmer. Seeing their locations, through checking the maps - plus reading the information on each one, has added another dimension to the experience (for someone who doesn't live in the US). Thanks for your suggestion.

http://www.lighthousefriends.com/pull-state.asp?state=ME&Submit=Go

I've come across some delightful, small (probably insignificant) & out of the way lighthouses (I think those might actually be my favourites ) in my travels through a number of different sites. Interesting, very interesting!

No doubt about it. Lighthouses are the stuff of dreaming (apart from their original practical purposes, of course! )They are just beautiful.

I love lighthouses. We have one about 20 miles south of the Paq state line at a big bluff that overlooks the Chesapeake Bay. The light is called "Turkey Point Light" and has a long hiking trail through a seaside park that gets to the park. Weve often taken hikes there and Ive taken my sketchbooks to draw the light while my wife would sit under a tree and knit.

US lighthouses usually fit four models, the big stocky tower, the spar or tower "can", the light and keeper house, and the strut or cannister lights that stand out in the bays.
Nothing really exotic like some of those in Europe or Asia.
I especially like old lighthouses that sit in relatively remote points. A type of signal spar ( actually a radio beacon that was designed for the LORAN network) is used in really remote areas in Maine and ALaska.

Yes, those were the ones that appealed to me, too. The little, rather unspectacular ones with lots of character, way out in the middle of nowhere.

Like this one. Lovely.:

http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=512

An Edward Hopper lighthouse? What a great painting Olga!

And a total surprise, tsar! And Edward Hopper light house!

(But, just quietly, I much prefer his urban scapes.)

Wow, I just found this post and will have to take time to see what has been pictured already. I love lighthouses.