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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Eighty-six: An American safari -- wildlife photography in southeast Alaska’s wilderness > Point Retreat Light House, Admiralty Island, Alaska, 2013
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07-JUN-2013

Point Retreat Light House, Admiralty Island, Alaska, 2013

This lighthouse sits at the northern tip of the ninety-mile long Admiralty Island. In 1794, the English explorer George Vancouver sent an officer ashore here to find food and water. However the fellow encountered a band of celebrating natives, and beat a hasty retreat. The tip of land had found a name, and 110 years later, it had its first lighthouse. The lighthouse is now automated, and stands as a historic reminder of Alaska’s Inside Passage history. In this image, the setting sun leaves its last light upon the top of the massive mountain rising behind the lighthouse and gilds the tiny-whitewashed structures below. The last light of the day symbolically echoes the function of the lighthouse itself.

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Phil Douglis01-Sep-2013 19:46
And it was exactly that harmony that brought me to this image, Tim. Both of us are seekers of light. We see light not only as a source for our exposures, but even more as a way of expressing ideas, and organizing our images according to those ideas. This image is about a light house. It is about the last light of the day, in a place where the days are very long. As I looked at this scene, I could almost feel the little lighthouse throwing its beam all the way up to the mountaintop. As you say, the light illuminates this image from corner to corner, creating a diagonal path for the eye to travel. Harmony - the quality that forms a pleasing and consistent whole -- is certainly at the core of this image.
Tim May31-Aug-2013 21:19
Such a wonderful balance here. the light on the top of the mountain in one corner and the light on the buildings in the other. For me it creates a harmony.
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