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Hook Lighthouse at Dusk, Wexford
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Eight hundred years. Hook Lighthouse has been standing on that headland for eight hundred years, and on this particular evening it felt like every one of them.
I was down on the rocks below the peninsula as the last daylight drained out of the sky. Long exposure, somewhere around a minute, which meant dealing with the beacon. Every rotation threatened to blow out the frame completely. So I stood there in the dark on wet rock, hand over the lens, letting the light flash once to register properly, then covering each subsequent sweep. You're counting the rhythm, trying not to wreck sixty seconds of work with one mistimed move. It requires a bit of nerve.
But the balance came out. That single flash of warm gold cuts across the blue hour water, and here's what I love most. The long exposure has smoothed the sea into something very calm, but where the beam touches the surface, it reveals the actual ripples and texture underneath. The smooth water is a kind of lie. The illuminated water tells the truth.
A spur of rock runs across the middle of the frame, creating a zigzag line that pulls you from the foreground tidal pools straight out to the lighthouse. I didn't plan that. I was just trying to find a position where the beam's reflection would trail back toward me, and the rocks happened to cooperate!
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