I was just playing around with my picture of the Rawley Point Lighthouse and came up with this cool looking black and white, sepia, old looking version of it.
All of the work on this image was done in Adobe Lightroom 2.1 working with the original RAW file. After exporting the JPG, I made a slight contrast adgustment in Photoshop.
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The Racine Breakwater Lighthouse sits on the north breakwater of Racine Harbor. This light is no longer in service. The Coast Guard had planned on disposing of the tower in 1987, but the town fought to save it.
The tower is 46 feet high and at one time had a Sixth Order Fresnel lens, but it has been removed.
This light has quite a history to it. It has been moved and rebuilt a number of times. To read more on the history of the Racine Breakwater Lighthouse you can visit this link: Seeing the Light - Racine North Breakwater Lighthouse
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The city of Milwaukee has three lighthouses. The Milwaukee Pier Head and Breakwater lighthouses are located in the Milwaukee Harbor, while the North Point Lighthouse sits on a bluff to the north of the harbor.
Milwaukee Breakwater Lighthouse
Built in 1926, the breakwater light is located on the breakwater to the Milwaukee Harbor. The tower is 53 feet tall and and contains a Fourth Order Fresnel Lens. The lighthouse sits on a pier 20 feet above the water.
Milwaukee Pier Head Lighthouse
This light was built in 1906 and replaced the original light from 1872. It is 42 feet high and has a Fifth Order Fresnel lens. The light is located on a pier where the Milwaukee River enters the harbor.
North Point Lighthouse
The North Point light was built in 1888. It was built to replace the original 1855 light that was located 100 feet east of this location and was being threatened by erosion. The original tower was 39 feet high. In 1908 it was determined that the nearby trees were beginning to block the light. So instead of cutting the trees, they built a 35 foot structure next to the light and then placed the existing tower on top of the structure raising the light to it’s present height of 74 feet. The North Point light has a Forth Order Fresnel lens that produces a light that can be seen 21 miles away.
For more information on the North Point Lighthouse you can visit their web site at www.NorthPointLighthouse.org
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We checked another lighthouse off our list the other day. We drove down to Evanston IL, (A northern suburb of Chicago.) to see the Grosse Point Lighthouse. What a beauty. It was built in 1873 and is 113 feet tall. The grounds of the lighthouse are awesome, but it’s very tough to photograph because of all the trees on the grounds. I want to go back in the winter when the trees are bare. Here’s a couple of the better shots I got.
You can read more about this lighthouse at this link,
The history section tells of the ship wreck that killed 300-400 people and finally convinced the government that a lighthouse was needed in that area.
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