Google Earth Lighthouse Uncontest

by **MontaukPoint** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:44 pm

Hi Everybody,

A new Uncontest has arrived. This one - Google Earth lighthouse snapshots.

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About Google Earth (More detail is available on ther website)

For those who do not know what I'm talking about; Google Earth is a free program that can be downloaded at earth.google.com. It is easy to use and you should get used to it fairly quickly.

To post a image here pick a angle/altitude on Google Earth you like best, go to FILE, SAVE, SAVE IMAGE. After that, just upload the image into your Photo Gallery (or whatever you usually use) and post it like you always do.

Uncontest Rules

1 - Only US Lights (Once it dies down I will start another country)
2 - Avoid posting multiple images of the same lighthouse

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I will start it off, with my favourite light (and my username) - Montauk Point, NY

by **Hersh** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:20 am

I have saved a number of these over the last couple of years, but many from Windows Live Local not Google earth. Close enough?

Here's Big Bay...

by **bert911** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:21 am

What a great idea!

Here is Bodie Island

by **ron** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:16 am

why on earth would you not allow other lights than USA???????

by **Ross** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:19 am

Just a starting point, I would guess. Be sure and leave the Google imprints on these as well, if you do post!

by **xihunter** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:19 pm

Michigan City Pier Light

by **MontaukPoint** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:54 pm

ron wrote:why on earth would you not allow other lights than USA???????

I just thought it would be a good way to start off, after this starts to die down I am going to start one for another country.

-Alan

by **MontaukPoint** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:01 pm

Cedar Island, NY

by **ron** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:15 pm

i guess so. there are not a lot of high defination sites up here, i've looking and printing them out, they are more accurate than our old survey's

by **Gary Martin** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:57 pm

I guess one of the closest tall towers to me now, at least as the crow flies, is probably Fire Island, NY.

by **Gary Martin** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:58 pm

One of my favorite lights to photograph is Cape Lookout, NC.

by **Grover1** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:54 pm

With the computer skills of an octopus, here's a stab at Twin Lights ...

<img src="http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/7131/googlexn3.jpg">

by **Gary Martin** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:41 pm

The resolution of this shot of Pigeon Point, CA south of Pescadero isn't the greatest but it is a spectacular light to photograph!

by **MontaukPoint** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:53 pm

One from my summer lighthousing trips - Sanibel Island, FL

by **Gary Martin** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:03 pm

Cape Hatteras

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