Maine lighthouses photography

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Portland Head Light ~ Stephen Beckwith

Portland, Maine Lighthouse

Celebrating Christmas Nantucket style.

Bass Harbor, a picturesque village of the municipality of Tremont, is at the southwestern tip of Mount Desert Island in an area known to locals as “the quiet side.” This pretty lighthouse in its rugged setting is visited by tens of thousands of tourists each year, and it easily ranks as one of the most-photographed lighthouses in all New England. The 1855 annual report of the Lighthouse Board stated, “There is a very good harbor about four miles west of Mount Desert Harbor, called Bass…

The Portland Head Light is one of the more recognizable (and most commonly photographed) lighthouses in the United States. It is located in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, just south of Portland. The lighthouse grounds are now part of Fort Williams Park.

Halfway Rock Lighthouse, Casco Bay, Maine. For more, see lighthouse.cc/halfwayrock/ Image 389_8956adj

Bass Harbor Head Light, Acadia National Park - Photographer's Description: Another light house shot from the rocks on the coast of South Desert Island, Maine. Spring 09 Three shot HDR. Put together in Photomatix Pro 3 and Post process in Photoshop CS4.

Portland Head Lighthouse at sunrise, in Cape Elizabeth, Maine

Set at the entrance to beautiful bays and natural harbors, lighthouses have prevented ships from running aground for hundreds of years. Sadly, however, many of them have become redundant and been replaced by more effective onboard navigational systems. The ones that remain are, for the most part, au