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Heceta Head Lighthouse:
This 56 foot tall lighthouse built in 1892 is dwarfed by its surroundings and its beam can be seen 21 miles away. It is the brightest light on the Oregon coast and was automated in 1963. The head lightkeeper’s house was demolished in 1940 due to electrification but the duplex that housed the two assistant lightkeepers was preserved and is in use as a bed and breakfast.

I'm a North Carolina photographer that moved to Oregon in 2018. My interest in photography started with a Christmas present in 1963, a Kodak Instamatic 100. What thrill for a nine-year-old. Looking back at those blurry and erratically exposed photographs I still feel the excitement of using it and I still have the camera. My real aha moment was in the 6th grade. My teacher brought in an inexpensive plastic darkroom kit one day for a class project. We spent the whole day taking photographs and developing them; I still have that first photograph I ever printed. As my interest grew the collection of cameras and darkroom equipment grew. I became involved in my high school yearbook and helped design the yearbook department's first darkroom. ...