Sakonnet Light

Posted by Henry (Fall River, United States) on 12 May 2008 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.

A few towns over from where I live is the quaint village of Little Compton, Rhode Island. I have a fondness for the area and many of my ancestors lived and farmed the land. Being part Native American I also like that the area was once under the dominion of the Wampanoag tribe. They called their lands "Sakonnet". Their leader at the time was "Awashonks" a powerful and popular female chief. Her power, popularity and penchant for preserving the land for her people of course marked her for death by the English colonists (no slight to my modern British friends). She was murdered and found floating in the bay that marked the Northern boundary of her tribal lands. After she was assassinated part of her tribe was sold into slavery, others were relocated. Today, a real estate company carries her name which is a bitter irony that irritates me.

I was on Sakonnet Point one fall day and a storm was fast approaching. The little lighthouse had this glowing quality which contrasted nicely against the foreboding sky and water. Weirdly, in a few of the photos from this series there was what appeared to be (at a great distance) a figure walking on the water. Hence, my story above.

This photo is the first digital art photography image I ever captured. I used a Minolta RD-175 which by today's standards was archaic. It was the second digital camera I had used for commercial work, but the first camera that began to deliver any level of quality that would make it useful for traditional, gallery-level, marketable work.

Things have certainly changed since back then.

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