{"id":55,"date":"2014-12-02T16:48:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T16:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/?p=55"},"modified":"2021-07-17T15:52:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T19:52:42","slug":"lighthouse-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/lighthouse-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"“Lighthouse Caf\u00e9” \u2014a social arrangement"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lighthouse<\/a><\/p>\n

Early one spring several years back, I was arranging a barbecue on Wincoma Beach, Huntington, NY, near my sister\u2019s home. We were inviting some artist friends from Connecticut, Long Island, and New Jersey. I wanted to show them the view before their arrival.<\/p>\n

This photo emerged after two evenings of shooting, the last evening using a tripod. I wanted the light reflections of the lighthouse and the red buoy to appear in the photo. However, they were out-of-sync, so i needed to leave the lens open for awhile\u201430 seconds was sufficient. It all worked out, for the shot is at dusk\u2014low light\u2014which requires a long exposure. A long exposure meant a small aperture. This in turn resulted in great depth-of-field\u2014sharp focus from the foreground to background. AND, I got my two reflected columns of light.<\/p>\n

I like this photo primarily because the three chairs face one-another in a magical setting. I\u2019ve seen dozens of paintings and photos of a single sea-side chair facing the water. This is always a contemplative, reflective, introspective type shot, one I\u2019ve always appreciated. But what sets this image apart is the communal arrangement of the chairs. It creates more of a social setting.<\/p>\n

The horizon reveals the Connecticut shoreline. The lights on the horizon are those of Norwalk, CT. The land spit on the top left is Lloyd\u2019s Neck.<\/p>\n

Because of the social placement of the three chairs and the appearance of the Huntington Lighthouse, I named this photo, \u201cLighthouse Caf\u00e9.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early one spring several years back, I was arranging a barbecue on Wincoma Beach, Huntington, NY, near my sister\u2019s home. We were inviting some artist friends from Connecticut, Long Island, and New Jersey. I wanted to show them the view before their arrival. This photo emerged after two evenings of shooting, the last evening using … Continue reading ““Lighthouse Caf\u00e9” \u2014a social arrangement”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,41,30,31],"tags":[16,17,14,15,13,18,20,19],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-sellers","category-image-interpretation","category-image-origin","category-method","tag-adirondack-chair","tag-beach","tag-huntington-lighthouse","tag-light","tag-lighthouse","tag-lloyds-neck","tag-refection","tag-wincoma"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/john-ellsworth-Lighthouse-Cafe-imagetalk-e1417649864234.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5bW7P-T","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}