We did manage to find the clouds on our lighthouse-hunting tour of the Gulf Coast - Gulfapalooza 2011 - but only for about half a day. Probably should have stayed an extra day to shoot Biloxi Mississippi's charming lighthouse in better light, but we had no idea how long the rest of the lights on our list would take.
I actually kind of like a lighthouse against a stormy sky. Lighthouses were invented for such weather.
Cupola!
This graffiti-covered concrete beacon by no means counts as a lighthouse, but we needed to kill some time in Biloxi to give the clouds a chance to move on. So, here you go.
The only Alabama lighthouse we had a chance of shooting lies a couple of miles offshore, at the mouth of Mobile Bay. Without an aircraft or a boat, the best vantage point from which to photograph the light is Fort Morgan.
Forts are cool.
...and spooky.
450mm lens and all, this is as close as we could get to the light. That's an oil rig, to the left of the tower.
One of the light's original Fresnel lenses, at home in the fort's museum.
And another.
Next up - the Florida panhandle has some photogenic and accessible lighthouses.
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