Lens Artists Photo Challenge #308 – Perfect Pairs

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The challenge from Elizabeth of Albatz Travel Adventures is to use diptychs to create perfect pairs. I wasn’t familiar with this term so I was glad she defined it like this: “A diptych is two images placed in proximity to one another, forming a pair. To make a successful pairing there should be several things in common, and something very different, contrasting.“

I love lighthouses and I am fortunate to live close to two different lighthouses. The first one I will feature is the Tybee Island Light Station, Georgia’s oldest and tallest lighthouse with 178 steps to the top. The original lighthouse was constructed in 1736. The lighthouse has been rebuilt several times and the daymark has also changed several times. Today the lighthouse is painted with the 1916 daymark of three stripes – black at the top, white in the middle, black at the bottom.

The lighthouse has just completed it’s latest restoration. The first two images below show the lighthouse during the restoration project and the lighthouse as it looks today with it’s new coat of paint.

Tybee Island Lighthouse during restoration, June, 2024
Tybee Island Lighthouse after restoration, July, 2024

The Lighthouse flies an American Flag on patriotic holidays such as Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Veteran’s Day. The following two images show the lighthouse as it was on Memorial Day, 2021 and this year’s Memorial Day, 2024 after the old layers of paint had been scraped off.

Tybee Island Light Station on Memorial Day 2021, before the 2024 restoration
Tybee Island Light Station Memorial Day 2024, during restoration

The Cockspur Island Lighthouse is shown in the next pair. On the left is a closeup of the lighthouse at high tide as seen from a boat. On the right is the lighthouse as seen from the Lighthouse trail at Ft. Pulaski National Monument near Tybee Island. If you look closely at the image from the trail you can see the top of the Tybee Island Lighthouse to the right of the water tower on the other side of the water behind the lighthouse.

Many thanks to our host Elizabeth of Albatz Travel Adventures for this challenge Lens-Artists #308 – Perfect Pairs

31 thoughts on “Lens Artists Photo Challenge #308 – Perfect Pairs”

  3. I love lighthouses too. Seeing yours I am inspired to start looking for my own lighthouse ‘diptychs’. The before and after is a really interesting way of using diptychs. I had thought of using ‘before and after’ for food, but not for renovations. Having just gone through a massive intrusive renovation of the building I live in I see that I took photos of the construction (and videos of the noise) but don’t have any ‘after’ photos. Hmmm… Thanks to you I can see I will be busy for a long while.

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    1. Thank you so much for your comments. I had to think a lot about how to approach this challenge. I enjoyed using our local lighthouses as examples. I hope I represented diptychs well.

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    1. Thanks Tina. I have been taking photos of the progress on the lighthouse all along. When I was taking pictures after it was finished I got the idea to use them for the challenge. Glad you liked them.

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  13. Wow, that was quite the sprucing up of the Tybee Island Light Station. Your pairing enabled us to see just how much. My love affair with lighthouses has been just about forever. Thanks.

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    1. Curt, I’ve had a love with lighthouses about the same amount of time as you. It was really interesting to see the progress as they worked to restore the Tybee Light. I was told they scraped off many layers of paint to get it down to the bare walls.

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