Barnagat Lighthouse (A.K.A. “Old Barney”), Barnagat Lighthouse State Park, located on the northern tip of Long Beach Island in New Jersey. At 172 feet, it is the fourth tallest lighthouse in the United States.

I had Wednesday afternoon off from work so I decided to go find this sunflower farm in Harleysville, PA because I have an idea for a sunflower field shot that has been haunting me. I found the farm but the sunflowers are probably a month and a half from having flowers. So I decided to drive the 150 miles out to Long Beach Island in New Jersey and locate the Barnagat Lighthouse, another photo subject I’ve been meaning to capture. The weather was not looking promising but the rain held off until I got my shots of the lighthouse.

For information on the Barnagat Lighthouse, visit this Wikipedia article.

I shot this as seven bracketed RAW frames and then combined them into an HDR with Photomatix Pro and finally, tone mapped that image to create the final product.