torsdag 17. september 2015

I had this plan! (now updated with readable text)...

A plan for todays post, that is.
Just discovered I have to get up at four in the morning... and that's soon to be just a few hours away, which in turn should mean that I have to get myself to bed quite soon...ish.


Well. I don't have to run yet, I think. 
I just wanted to say a few words about some buildings that I care a lot for. 
Being a sailor you get to know them, and you get to a point where you like them. A lot.
They are very different, but they are still sort of the same. They were true life savers back in the days, but can still be today, so don't put their lights out you coming generations. 
I am talking about lighthouses, and their different forms but similar function.


A Lighthouse (def.):
"a tower or other structure displaying or flashing a very bright light for the guidance of ships in avoiding dangerous areas, in following certain routes, etc."


As usual, definitions does not quite reflect the real world in every sense. It says nothing about how many lives and ships they have saved. It says nothing about the total ammount of relief sailors must have felt through the years just by discovering the light through the fog or seaspray from the bow on a horrible night at sea. It says nothing about the men that built them, out there on a tiny little skerry or on a hardly visible sea stack in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by nothing but death and horror. It says nothing about the fact that they are all strong, wonderful buildings, masterpieces of architects, engineers and craftsmen. It says nothing about the men, and sometimes entire families living at the lighthouse premises to take care of, and protect, that fragile and important light, day and night for a lifetime. Neither does it tell any stories of all those heartbreaking and horrible scenes the lighthouse keepers must have witnessed at times when the weather and conditions has been so bad that no lighthouse in the world could save the ones out there. The lost souls, navigating the wrong part of the big blue at the wrong time.


I love lighthouses, both for the function and the more esthetic part. I love their presence, the bold way they present themselves, the stories told around them, and the fact that they are lifesavers more than anything. 


I got a few photos of them, and will probably take more in the years to come. The lighthouses snapped and showed here today is from different parts of Norway. Others are from Wales, Scotland and the northern isles over there... Way out West.



5 kommentarer:

  1. Great post Mr Karlsvik and a great set of snaps. You'll have to get to Rathlin Island sometime and take all three lighthouses :)

    SvarSlett
    Svar
    1. That would be a great trip and some nice lighthouses to go through Michael :)
      I have just been out snapping the lighthouse here at the island of Ona where I got a cottage. 4th pic if you count from the top of this page. I will stay for about a week and will try to snap some old photos but on paper negatives this time. Never done that before but find it quite fun. Hope to have something to post some time during next weekend :)

      Slett
    2. Paper negs sound very interesting. Andrew Sanderson is the man, apparently - although Ms Ingram has something to say about this too. I'm way behind on all of this - I'm just trying to get to grips with the basics for now...although I'm getting mightly bored by all my postcard snapshots (as I'm sure all 2 or 3 of my readers are lol). One day, one day, I just might do something interesting, photographically-speaking! Keep up the blog Roy - I always enjoy reading your posts and looking at your great 'snaps'.

      BTW, I Google-mapped Island of Ona and the Google's red placemark was in the middle of the sea! What a fantastic landscape you get to visit - totally brilliant. I thought I lived in the middle of nowhere in The Liberties but you are way off the map - literally!

      Slett
    3. Paper negs sound very interesting. Andrew Sanderson is the man, apparently - although Ms Ingram has something to say about this too. I'm way behind on all of this - I'm just trying to get to grips with the basics for now...although I'm getting mightly bored by all my postcard snapshots (as I'm sure all 2 or 3 of my readers are lol). One day, one day, I just might do something interesting, photographically-speaking! Keep up the blog Roy - I always enjoy reading your posts and looking at your great 'snaps'.

      BTW, I Google-mapped Island of Ona and the Google's red placemark was in the middle of the sea! What a fantastic landscape you get to visit - totally brilliant. I thought I lived in the middle of nowhere in The Liberties but you are way off the map - literally!

      Slett
    4. Oh... so you've been google mapping and stuff, and actually found my small island Ona?! Well, it's there, on the map and everything, but you have to really use the zooming tool to get a grip of size and such. It's just a few feet long and a couple wide, so nothing much to find that is new from time to time... This time I'm out with some new material though, both in form and composition, so stay tuned a few hours more and I'm out with a new post... I hope!

      Slett

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