For those of you who couldn't be there in the gale force winds, horizontal rain, and cold to enjoy the spectacle of the Mother's Day Gale at South Haven, here's a link to a new gallery page on my website that has a 7 frame animated GIF sequence showing one of the waves hitting the end of the pier at South Haven.

http://www.coastalbeacons.com/Storm_animation4.htm

I hope you enjoy this if you have the time to take a look. It's about 475 Kbytes and will take some time to load if you're on a dial-up connection so please be patient.

Gary

Nice sequence of shots, Gary. Those conditions were challenging.

Dan Sheehan

Hi Gary,

Here is Grand Haven on Mother's Day. Man was it brutal out there! I ended up hand-holding this shot with Velvia (40) at 1/125 second on automatic. Don't remember what F-stop. I was getting blown around so hard that I didn't dare shoot below that for fear of blurring the shot. I think it took me three days to blow all the sand out of my camera.



I bumped up the contrast a bit to help with the color.

I think only lighthouse fanatics like us brave conditions like it was out there that day. :p