Planes line up to land at Logan, as seen from the remote camera that survived the winter storms.
Remember the remote camera we installed last year to watch the lighthouse? That’s the one from which we made the stop-action video last summer.
Well, the camera survived the winter after we were thwarted from several rescue attempts.
We just recovered it – battered and bent up almost vertically after being smacked from underneath by a big wave during a winter storm. Much to our surprise, it was dry inside, and yielded 1,400 photos. A few of them are shown here.
The camera is an old digital Canon 5D with a 24mm lens, which we housed in an a steel ammunition box with a round window cut into it for the lens. We waterproofed it, and powered it with a car battery and some solar panels that we bought on Amazon.
Then we installed the camera assembly in a wooden box secured on brackets to the side of the oil house on the ledge across from the light. Lo and behold, the camera survived the winter!
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- Foggy evening at Graves Light, as seen from the remote camera.
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- Planes line up to land at Logan.
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- Graves at midday, from the remote camera.
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- Foggy morning at Graves, as seen from the remote camera.
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- The camera survived in its ammunition box case, even though the bracket was smashed by winter storms.
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- The camera in its development stage, on the back porch in Malden, winter 2013-2014.
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- Graves at sunset, from the remote camera.
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- Graves at daybreak, from the remote camera.
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- Dave recovers the images from the camera after it survived a good pounding in the winter of 2014-15.
