The photo below is one taken just as the sun pillar that I've posted before was beginning to develop. At the time this was shot, I was considerably further to the right of the north pier at South Haven, which put the sun pillar to the left of the lighthouse. I'm not sure why, but this particular image invokes a mental image of the light of Mordor in the Lord of the Rings casting an evil glow on the thick dark clouds overhead... I guess we'll have to see what they do in the 3rd installment of the movie version of the Trilogy in a couple of years, but, in the meantime...



At the other end of the event... after the sun pillar was starting to fade, I line up so that it was directly behind the lighthouse to give a reddish "halo." Remember the line... "lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my?" That line invoked a title in my mind of Purple and Red and Yellow, Oh My! for whatever that's worth...







[This message has been edited by lighthouse_photo (edited 03-11-2002).]