The Moon, The Lighthouse & The Flashlight
Light on the End of the Island

After a long day of exploring Long Island’s largest decaying state asylum, we headed to the Island’s end with hopes to catch some kind of meteor shower activity. The night was an exploration of light–first from the beautiful Montauk Lighthouse.

But a haze of cloud cover thwarted our plans initially…

…which the lighthouse illuminated into a veil. We had moments of seeing the stars, but had some time to kill before the night would be clear.

So we started playing around with light painting! And my friend’s son discovered he was a natural at painting light in the sky.

“hi”

😊

Then I tried. That’s a Z for Zorro and me.

Then boom, the milky way was above our heads.

Star gazers

The best shots were on the way out. We wanted to head to Camp Hero close by. But that was a bit of a fail. (Peep the shooting star! We were at the tail end of the Perseids.)

This was a funny picture as another night photographer walked by with a flashlight illuminating us. My good ol’ fisheye lens grabs it all.

But that gave use ideas for more light painting.

Onward to Custer Observatory. My friend burrito-ed on the ground looking for shooting stars while I tried to deal with the big shine of moonlight blowing out my shots.

The moon looks like the sun–

Observatory parts

Wacky star gazing chair looks like a bondage chair

Instead of setting up the tent, we opted for the long ride back to Brooklyn. It’s been a while since I pulled an all nighter.

Thanks for the light, Long Island.