Ostra Algogrundet Lighthouse Metal Print

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Östra Älgögrundet fyr ( lighthouse ) along the coast of Sweden amid the islands of the Stockholm Archipelago seen from the high deck of a cruise ship on Baltic Sea at sunrise. The lighthouse station was established in 1931. The 25 foot tall lighthouse looks deceptively small when seen from above. Beautiful ripples of blue and golden yellow and orange from the rising sun and reflections of the lighthouse in the ocean water.

I rose at 4:30 AM to take this series of photographs of the Stockholm archipelago and at first the white night in August was so bright I thought I had missed the sunrise and that it would be a gray and foggy day. Soon, however, a soft golden orange crept into the sky and reflected in the water of the Baltic Sea. Throughout the morning the gentle golden hour colors you see here would intensify and change dramatically to bright orange and then pink and purple. It was an amazing show of color - a sunset unlike any I have ever seen. Simply beautiful.

I have been hooked on photography since age six when my grandmother, returning from a trip to Egypt, passed on her well-traveled Kodak Brownie camera as well as her wanderlust. A travel, editorial and fine art photographer by profession, my images seek to shine a light on the reality around me and to evoke an emotional response. My work has been shown in galleries throughout the New York metropolitan area, including at the Museum of the City of New York and hang in the collections of private, institutional and corporate collectors. They have been published in Smithsonian and Coastal Living magazines, in The Guardian newspaper, in books published by National Geographic, Fodors, DK and Workman Publishing and in dozens of other...