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| Medior7? - Famous Light HouseMon, 05 Jan 2009 21:20:13 -0800 by wwwMedior7comwww.Medior7.com Movie Search Engine, Ive always wondered what happened to the guy in the doorway, and what god-awful circumstances put him there. It turns out the picture was taken by Jean Guichard a French photographer at the La Jument Lighthouse in France. Jean Guichard is best known for his explosive Wave photograph of a lighthouse off the coast of Brittany, France, showing a keeper at the door about to be engulfed by a titanic wave. The photograph is truly one of the most recognizable lighthouse photographs in the world. When first seeing the famous photograph, most people assume that the lighthouse keeper must have been killed. In fact, the keepers had been living in fear of death during the 1989 storm, and at one point had taken refuge in the lantern room of the tower. Waves the night before had smashed through the lower windows of the tower, causing the structure to flood, washing away everything in its path including the television, table, chairs, coffee maker and even the refrigerator. The keepers it turns out ,and not suprisingly, were waiting to be rescued by helicopter. As Jean Guichards helicopter approached the tower he was unaware that the keepers were waiting for a rescue helicopter. Guichard was simply there to take photographs of the waves pounding the structure. The keepers heard the sound of the helicopter and naturally assumed it was the rescue helicopter. One of the keepers opened the lower door of the structure and as he looked up at the helicopter and realized that it was not the rescue chopper, he also realized that a giant wave was about to engulf the tower. He immediately turned about and pulled the door closed behind him. Had he not done so at that second, he surely would have been killed. While all this was happening, Jean Guichard was busy taking photographs as fast as he could click the camera, thus capturing on film the most dramatic action shots ever taken at a lighthouse. ---Ive made this YouTube video out of all the pictures I could find and put them into sequence, additionally I found and added another 2 amazing sequences, including one of the lighthouse keepers running from a wave. A short higher quality version can be found here http://www.jean-guic hard.com/If youre interested in this stuff here is a fascinating wiki article about the Minots ledge Lighthouse here http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Minot's_Led ge_Light Related: medior7? famous light house la jument lighthouse keeper france brittany jean guichard door doorway giant wave photograph rescue 1989 helicopter |
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