Welcome to the sea bed........ - a photo on Flickriver

Welcome to the sea bed........

            And meanwhile the wind gets gale force and the wet snow blows in my face and I only now can I imagine what it must have been like here as the whipped up sea crashed her high waves against he splash wharf in front of the lightkeeper's house.
The only thing that reassures me is the fact that I'm standing safe in the middle of the fields of the "Noordoostpolder" and that the former sea, today's "IJsselmeer" , is raging many miles away.
Until 1875, the lighthouse was a wooden dwelling and the lighthouse consited of a petroleum light.
During heavy storm and heavy ice conditons, the lighthouse keeper and his family had to be resqued from the dead several times.
Untill that date, the canal was owned by a private company and a toll was charged for the passage and use of the moorings.
In 1876, the Department of Public Works became the manager of the canal and applied considerable improvements, including the repair of the seriously neclected dams and the construction of a new lightkeeper's house in an austere neoclassical style.
The light on the house was a white light, and the interior of the house included a cast-iron structure supporting the heavy light tower.
The light was visible as far as 18,5 kilometers from the sea.
Inside the house was a water tank connected to the sea like a communicating barrel.
The tank contained a device very modern for the time, the self -recording gauge, so that the lightkeeper could read the water levels inside the house in rough weather.
After the Zuiderzee was closed off, the dams were demolished and the basalt stones were reused to build the dikes of the Noordoostpolder........ 

   

Taken on: March 10, 2023

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Camera: Olympus E-M5MarkIII, f/8.0, 1/200 sec, 20mm (=40mm), ISO 2000 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Olympus E-M5MarkIII
Lens:	OLYMPUS M.12-40mm F2.8
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	0.005 sec (1/200)
Focal Length:	20mm (35mm equivalent: 40mm)
ISO:	2000
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	On, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Center-weighted average
White Balance:	Auto
Gain Control:	High gain up
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Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 12.2.1 (Windows)
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