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Point Bonita Lighthouse
Ermell, I've been thinking about asking California State Parks whether they'd open the lighthouse only to me and not to any other visitors. I'm not sure whether that's possible, but I'll give it a try… --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 07:09, 18 May 2018 (UTC) P.S. I've removed the water drop. Thanks! [reply]
Charles, I'm sorry to disappoint you – but if you'd take a closer look, you'd see the reflection of the sun on the top of the tower. So, yes, the sun was shining that day. And what's in the background is what people in San Francisco call “Karl the fog”. Just google it. --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 07:02, 18 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I've only been to San Francisco once and didn't meet Karl, who is a fascinating natural occurence, but unfortunately not so photogenic! Charles (talk) 07:34, 18 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I guess the question at hand is: should we aim at depicting things as they are or should we wait for a magic moment that makes the subject look good (although that's not what the subject would usually look like). So, what I'm saying is: I totally hear you – I could live without Karl myself. But are terrible (from my perspective) images like this really what we're aiming for? --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 07:57, 18 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Do you think I would nominate an image here if I was unhappy about the light? I'm actually very satisfied with the light. With a blue sky in the background it would look like a postcard. Look at this image: Point Reyes Lighthouse in 2012 (one of my worst lighthouse pictures ever featured here – totally unrealistic setting: Point Reyes Lighthouse is situated one of the most foggies places on this planet and the picture is 100% artificial. I think we should delist it.) Also think about it like this: you can only get the kind of colors as in the image above if you don't have a super sunny day with blue sky. Get out and shoot and just give it a try ;-) --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 07:02, 18 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I like that photo a lot more, so we may just have a difference of taste. I actually have been shooting a good deal, but with my smartphone. I have yet to edit any of those photos or upload them here, but I think I will do that in some cases, because a lot of them are of New Rochelle, New York (I work there often and walk from the train station to the nursing home where I work, a distance of about 1.2 miles by the shortest route, which I don't necessarily take), and some of them are better than what's already in Category:New Rochelle, New York for those subjects, though not necessarily because they're that good... :-) -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:00, 18 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Just from an taste-viewpoint, I like blue skies a lot (even more with some of the puffy clouds that are so rare in California). So, we might even agree when it comes to what we'd rather frame and put on our wall at home. I've just gotten more into questioning myself (i.e. my photography) when it comes to depicting things in a way that doesn't actually have anything to do with the reality of that place. --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 09:25, 18 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 3 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--Cart (talk) 08:51, 19 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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