Grace #25/40

This is a photograph of the Roman Rock lighthouse, that stands 3km offshore in False Bay, south of Cape Town, South Africa. It is 20km from the far south western tip of the African continent, where the land narrows down to a point and drops off cliffs into the Atlantic Ocean. It is the only one in South Africa to be built on a single rock, and was first lit on the 16th September, 1861. I have been photographing this lighthouse for almost two years, getting up in the dark and standing out on the edge of the ocean in all manner of weather, tracking the sunrise over the mountains in the background that lie 50km away across the cold waters of the bay. I have photographed it from shore, and...View all