![]() The Titan Tapestry bag is named after Titan, a puppy we encountered during our photo shoot. The Great Lakes Beanie is named after my beloved Great Lakes that surround my home state of Michigan. As you may have noticed, I enjoy giving my special projects meaningful names. In fact, I’d recommend heading over to the Salt of the Earth Beanie and just use the Herringbone Half Double Crochet for a similar look. But you may need fewer stitches and rows to achieve the same measurements. You can certainly make the Light Keeper’s Cap out of a regular, slightly thicker worsted yarn. But because it is a bit lightweight, I found there were more stitches per inch than if worked with a heavier weight worsted weight yarn. It has a beautiful drape that I just love. It is worsted weight, but is ever so slightly on the lightweight end of the scale. This high quality wool yarn is available from many well known retailers including Joann and Hobby Lobby. To achieve the amazing Herringbone texture, it is worked back and forth in joined rows. A photographer was in the right place at the right time, hovering in a helicopter above the historic La Jument lighthouse off the coast of France.My friends, meet a thing of simple beauty: The Light Keeper’s Cap.Įver since I learned the Herringbone Half Double Crochet stitch I’ve been wanting to make something special with it. In 2015, De Wire blogged of Malgorn that "he is undoubtedly retired by now and enjoying well-deserved quieter days." 21, 1989.Īccording to Elinor De Wire, the author of " The Lightkeepers' Menagerie," Malgorn "had nearly 40 years in the French lighthouse service." First prize went to this picture from photographer Stephane Duroy.Ī number of other similar photographs of waves hitting the lighthouse are available on Getty Images, but perhaps none has the powerful feeling that Guichard captured on Dec. ![]() Guichard went on to win 2nd prize in the "Nature" category for the 1991 World Press Photo contest. Celtic Countries published that "lighthouses in Brittany have been automated in the past decades and La Jument itself has no longer a keeper since 1991." The photographer presented the former lighthouse keeper with a signed and framed print of the now-famous picture.Īccording to the two men and other accounts of the story, the last year La Jument had a lighthouse keeper was 1991. Malgorn responded that "no, it was a one-off." "Normally, you wouldn't go out," Guichard said. Guichard asked if he had opened the door because he heard the helicopter. "I didn't know a huge wave was coming," Malgorn answered. In a video interview reuniting Guichard and Malgorn, Malgorn was asked what he remembered from the moment seen in the photograph: The lighthouse keeper standing in the doorway was Theodore Malgorn. The picture was named, "Phares dans la Tempete, La Jument," which means "Lighthouse in a Storm, at La Jument." It's located off the Brittany coast in France and was built between 19. Four photographs from the same incredible moment are available for purchase on his website. ![]() It was captured by photographer Jean Guichard from a helicopter on Dec. A larger version was available on Reddit. Certainly an alarming situation for the man in the doorway. ![]()
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