Lighting Up Time

Sky fairly grey this evening.
Although light, if not exactly sunlight was breaking through in patches.
I have a colour version which is fairly blue with a mirror sea from long exposure.
However, I opted for this version and had some fun in Silver Efex
pushing the drama to the very edge.
As a number of people said when I purchased the nik collection,
the trick with software is knowing when to stop.
Oh well we are all allowed to get carried away occasionally.

The lighthouse building is listed as a building of Architectural/Historic interest. The shipmaster of Aberdeen requested that a light be established at Girdle Ness, Aberdeen following the wrecking of a whaling ship called the Oscar in 1813. There were only 2 survivors from a crew of 45.

The lighthouse was built by an Aberdeen contractor, James Gibb. The light had a new form of double light, showing 2 distinct lights from the same tower, one above the other, both fixed. The lower light consisted of 13 lamps and reflectors arranged like a garland in a glazed gallery built round the outside of the tower about one third of the way up. In 1890 the lower light was discontinued. The main light was altered in 1847 and the old lantern which was too small, was transferred to Inchkeith.

In 1860 Girdle Ness was visited by the Astronomer Royal, Professor George Airy, (later Sir George) who described it as "the best lighthouse that I have seen".