So I had an appointment with the immunologist at York Hospital yesterday. I evidently turned the wrong way leaving the hospital because I ended up on Route 1A instead of 1, and found myself headed up the coast road. It was okay. It is hard to get actually lost in Southern Maine, as long as you remember which side the ocean is supposed to be on. I knew I was headed home, generally. From Long Sands Beach in York, I could see Nubble Light, out at the end of Cape Neddick, so, I thought, why not. I am lost anyway. Nubble Light is one of the iconic lighthouses of Maine, perhaps a tad less photographed than Portland Head or Pemiquid, but easily recognizable from post cards and the Travel Channel. It sits on a little lump of rock offshore, off the tip of Cape Neddick. It’s bright red brick outhouse, and neat picket fence stand out. They gave the brick outhouse a fresh coat of paint recently from the look of things, but I noticed that the “captains chair” cable crossing that used to take the lighthouse keeper out to the island has now been dismantled. Looks like it is boats and fair weather only these days.

It was a pretty good day for photographing the Nubble: Enough clouds to be interesting, and intermittent sun on the island and the surround sea. Enough sea to interesting as well. Some nice color in the water. Pretty good pretty. I shot with the Sony NEX 3NL and it’s 16-50mm zoom, on “superior auto” but with HDR processing in mind. Processed in Snapseed on my tablet.

For several cameras now, I have used this scene at Nubble as a good test of a camera’s inherent image quality. I have a set of shots with every camera I have owned in the past 10 years. The Sony, by the way, did very well!