I met fellow photographer Xavier Cohen to go photograph around. Initially, the idea was to carpool for the 135th Anniversary Lighting of the Pigeon Point Lighthouse with the original Fresnel light. Xavier suggested going to Elkhorn Slough for wildlife photography, it was definitely an experience for me, as I have not done wildlife before, and neither photographing from a Kayak. We did that, lunch, and then headed for Pigeon Point Lighthouse.
Every year on the Saturday closest to November 15th, public and photographers in general have the opportunity to experience the original lighting of the lighthouse, they keep the light static for 5 minutes to allow photographers to take the 24 light beams without any use of photoshop :-) ... This was my first year on this event, and I decided to try for one composition and hold it for those 5 minutes. You only have a couple of chances within those 5 minutes to make it happen. Next year I will try a different composition.
