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Floating Iron Stairs ... Since 1894

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The Heceta Head Lighthouse still has its original iron stairs. I believe they're attached to the floor at the top and at the bottom of each section, but nowhere else. What I AM sure about is this: at no point does the circular stairwell touch the outside wall, and there is no center support. (Has to be the floor supports, yes? That's what I'm thinking.) The pole you see on the far right holds up the light, which is directly above. The stairs are a separate bit of business. This is the uppermost section, closed to the public, that the lightkeeper would have climbed in order to service the light.

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RodS Online Now!

12:59AM | Sat, 18 June 2011

Well photographed and fascinating information, Tara! It's cool you got an inside look at this! Not sure I'd feel to warm and fuzzy about those stairs, though - although the look very well constructed. Super capture!

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Faemike55

1:26AM | Sat, 18 June 2011

I'd climb them in a heart-beat. Great capture do you have any more POVs of this wonderful spiral staircase?

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Chipka

1:57AM | Sat, 18 June 2011

I've seen stairways like this and they have a nicely gentle sway to them: nothing perilous or even vertigo-inducing, but something easily noticed if you know what to feel for. Rather like being in the Sears Tower (pfft, who is that Willis guy anyway?) on a windy day: the whole thing sways and twists rather nicely. I love the shape of this and the "details within details" POV you're so good at. Iron is such an intriguing thing: so heavy, so strong, so dense, so much a part of our planetary core, and yet it can be as delicate (comparatively) as a hanging stairway built by spiders (they're good at that let's-make-something-really-strong-out-of-something-as-flimsy-as-silk sort of thing, so I'm sure that at least one spider had some say in the construction of this stairwell...okay, that's how it would have been in my world, since I have it on good authority that spiders talk there, and give lots of (unsolicited) advice. This is a great shot and I love the way the light just whispers into this. It reminds me of stairs I saw in a cathedral in Prague (different sort of stairs.) The light was the same: alive and oddly transparent, if that makes any kind of sense.

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jayfar

2:04AM | Sat, 18 June 2011

You have 'high lighted' a lovely bit of engineering here Tara, Great shot.

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helanker

2:34AM | Sat, 18 June 2011

OH Yes, that could make one unsure about using those stairs or rather make ME sure not to use them. LOL ! Excellent capture Tara :-)

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jclP

2:38AM | Sat, 18 June 2011

very nice capture

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wysiwig

2:55AM | Sat, 18 June 2011

What a marvelous representation of the art of the industrial age. Graceful and almost delicate. Wonderful details. Great capture.

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durleybeachbum

3:08AM | Sat, 18 June 2011

A most wonderful picture..but for once I think I need to see MORE to understand the structure! (Bother that design qualification..)

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lyron

3:34AM | Sat, 18 June 2011

Beautiful capture!!

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elizabyte

3:48AM | Sat, 18 June 2011

I have a strange phobia about climbing ladders. Stairs like this totally invoke that phobia. Look how much like a ladder they are! Totally aside from that, it's a fantastic photograph, very evocative. (Evocative enough to make my stomach do a little phobic flip ;))

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Feliciti

4:39AM | Sat, 18 June 2011

wonderful details in this shot ! like the way of lights this make a dreamy feeling!

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fallen21

4:52AM | Sat, 18 June 2011

Excellent capture!

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cfulton

8:03AM | Sat, 18 June 2011

Engineering ingenuity! Well captured, Clive

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bobrgallegos

8:48AM | Sat, 18 June 2011

Very cool photo composed wonderfully!

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jophoto

9:10AM | Sat, 18 June 2011

Wow! Since 1894...I wonder how many things built in 1994 will stand the test of time as well as this...Fine capture Tara.

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thecytron

9:57AM | Sat, 18 June 2011

AmaZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzing clarity and details!

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debbielove

9:59AM | Sat, 18 June 2011

No! Would not go up these if you paid me thousands! I can't do spiral stairs! Freaks me out! Great idea and fine shot! Rob

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wotan

10:12AM | Sat, 18 June 2011

Cool!

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Meisiekind

10:21AM | Sat, 18 June 2011

I'm with Rob - freaks me too. Hope you didn't climb it?!?! Excellent image though Dierbaar. The pov is spot on.

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Orinoor

11:15AM | Sat, 18 June 2011

Wonderful tidbit and love the shot, I love ironworks. This reminds me of those attic stairs that fold down.

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awjay

11:37AM | Sat, 18 June 2011

nice abstract

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emmecielle

12:36PM | Sat, 18 June 2011

Excellent capture! :)

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MrsRatbag

8:15PM | Sat, 18 June 2011

Oh, beautiful in front of the bright window; love the shapes of the iron pieces making it up. What a great design! And what a beautiful photo!

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hipps13

12:55AM | Sun, 19 June 2011

cool stare warm hugs, Linda Kaye

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tofi

7:19AM | Sun, 19 June 2011

There's something so beautiful and unique about your composition, Tara! I love the view.. it's just revealing enough, but yet modest and mysterious. Very informative and curious capture that you've tickled the mind with. Wonderful lighting and feel to this!

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mickuk50

8:00AM | Sun, 19 June 2011

Gravity :o)..

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blondeblurr

8:41AM | Sun, 19 June 2011

As I am not a regular kind of visitor to lighthouses, I can't say to have seen staircases like that at all - but find the steel or rather iron-designed staircase unique, somewhat unusual but very intriguing, BB

gonzojr

10:49AM | Sun, 19 June 2011

Very interesting, and cool image!

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beachzz

12:45AM | Mon, 20 June 2011

I don't know where to start--there are so many parts of this that are SO good---the light, the detail, the POV--I don't think WOW covers it!!

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evinrude

8:42AM | Mon, 20 June 2011

VERY nicely done.

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