I never got around to posting this photo from my Nubble Lighthouse series so I figured now was as good a time as any!

I wanted to show this angle of the Nubble Lighthouse so that the white trolley system to the left could be more easily seen. This trolley was used to transport supplies and food to the Light Keepers who lived on the island.  One interesting story I read about online told how one of the Light Keepers from the 1960’s used to put his children in this basket everyday to ferry them across the ocean for school. When a photo appeared of one of the children in the basket suspended over the water in the local newspaper the district commander decided to ban families with school age children from living on the island. If your interested in reading a lot more history about the Nubble lighthouse and want to see the famous photo from the 1960’s of the child  in the trolley above the water check out this very  informative Light House website.

Forget a quarter this seagull was not going to let anyone use this viewfinder at the Nubble Lighthouse unless they paid him with some treats!

This is the third photo in my Nubble Lighthouse series. Here is a closer look at Nubble Lighthouse showing all the buildings on the island.  The little red building in the front contains the emergency generator that powers the lighthouse light and foghorn in case the island loses power in a storm. I wanted to share a fun fact about the Nubble Lighthouse that I read on Wikipedia:

“The Voyager spacecraft, which carries photographs of Earth’s most prominent manmade structures and natural features should it fall into the hands of intelligent extraterrestrials, includes a photo of Nubble Light [along] with images of the Great Wall of China and the Taj Mahal.”

I just thought that was a pretty cool trivia tidbit!

This is the second photo in my Nubble Lighthouse series. Here is a closeup of the light tower on the Nubble Lighthouse converted to b&w. I decided to leave the light in color so it could be seen easier. One interesting thing I noticed  about the lighthouse is that it seems to be easier to see the light from afar then when close up. It must be designed that way I suppose.  Later I will post a photo of the lighthouse from much further away so you can see.

Here is the primary reason I went to Maine in the first place to take photos of my favorite lighthouse the “Nubble Lighthouse” (also known as The Cape Neddick Lighthouse).  This lighthouse is located in York, Maine. The lighthouse was built in 1879 and has been in continuous service since.  A light keeper lived on this island until the lighthouse was automated in 1987.

On this particular day it was so foggy that the foghorn on the lighthouse was blasting every 10 seconds or so to warn sailors who could not see the light.  Starting today I am going to start a series featuring photos I took of  the Nubble Lighthouse on this foggy day.

Sometimes you just get lucky when taking a picture. That was the case with this photo I took of the Nubble Lighthouse in Maine. I was just setting up to take a normal picture of the lighthouse but by the time the shutter clicked I ended up getting a seagull in the foreground of the picture that was totally unplanned but something I think enhances the image. The seagull gives a little life to the image since this picture was taken in March when there was still snow on the ground and the grass was brown.