Last weekend I had to go to Savannah, GA on business. The trip gave me the opportunity to do a little photography in my spare time while I was there and now the first of the Low Country Lighthouse photo galleries, one devoted to sunrise shots taken at Tybee Island Tuesday morning before I flew home, has been uploaded to my website. Here's the URL to the new photo gallery:

http://www.coastalbeacons.com/atlanticcoastgallery/LowCountry/Tybee/tybee.htm

Here's teaser for you. This shot of the Fresnel lens in the lantern room at Tybee Island with the sunrise refracting in the prisms of the Fresnel lens was shot at 300 mm on Furi Provia 100F slide film with my Nikon N90 propped on a fencepost to steady it. The camera was attached to a minipod whose legs I was holding flush against the fencepost. That's a technique that has served me well over the years when I haven't had one of my regular Bogen tripods with me. A minipod is easy to toss in a suitcase or bag so I always have one of those along wherever I go.



There will be at least one more Tybee Island gallery coming, maybe 2 more, I haven't decided yet. There will also be galleries for Hunting Island, SC and St Simon's Island, GA coming, along with a few miscellaneous shots of the lighthouses at Harbour Town on Hilton Head Island and the little abandoned Cockspur Island lighthouse in GA.

I hope you enjoy these as they're added.

Gary