{"id":7124,"date":"2010-07-19T11:04:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T18:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=7124"},"modified":"2010-07-19T20:01:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T03:01:27","slug":"death-of-the-lighthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2010\/07\/19\/death-of-the-lighthouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of the lighthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Technology moves on.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>To the extent that they are still in use, <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lighthouse target=_blank>lighthouses<\/a> are now mostly automated, using solar batteries and no human labor.  GPS and sophisticated guidance technologies killed them.  Yet I find I can never resist checking one out when the opportunity arises, and a drive along the California coast offers many such opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>These were snapped at Pigeon Point on Highway One, on the way from San Francisco to Santa Cruz.  All snapped on the Panasonic G1 with the kit lens.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/PigeonPoint2.jpg\" width=\"548\" height=\"814\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Lighthouse keeper&#8217;s hut.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/PigeonPoint1.jpg\" width=\"814\" height=\"613\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Why not make it beautiful?<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/PigeonPoint3.jpg\" width=\"548\" height=\"814\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Weathering.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/PigeonPoint4.jpg\" width=\"814\" height=\"548\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Ventilation inlets.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology moves on. To the extent that they are still in use, lighthouses are now mostly automated, using solar batteries and no human labor. GPS and sophisticated guidance technologies killed them. Yet I find I can never resist checking one out when the opportunity arises, and a drive along the California coast offers many such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2010\/07\/19\/death-of-the-lighthouse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Death of the lighthouse<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7124"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7135,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions\/7135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}