Blew away! Gosh! Those trees tell the story!

May be windswept but still standing proud Bill.

Great capture and info! I thought ND is the windiest place on Earth...

Super pic, well captured, you can tell its very windy :0) xx

Cool capture and interesting information

Great shot, and what an inviting little path.

Stellar lighting contrast and composition of the lighthouse and environs, Bill.

What a beautiful scene, and it definitely looks as though it gets a lot of stiff wind, for sure! Well captured, Bill!

Great place to fly a kite. Nice shot Bill.

A marvelous shot, hon. I like the distance from here to the lighthouse. It's very inviting!

A lovely capture and POV with the wind swept trees!

real cool and if you like wind this is the place to go.

WOW! It is beautiful even though it is pretty windy .-)

You folks must see the coast of Maine... images like this all the way. This is beautiful Bill. Nice compo!

This reminds me (even down to the lighthouse) of the North Devon coast line.. Holidays spent there are to many to recall.. :-) A great shot Bill, looks lovely to me! Wind and all lol Rob

Superb capture my friend. God bless.

Fantastic image !

Nice one Bill. What a cool place, and you did it fine justice mate.

What a glorious shot this is, Bill! Wow! It's easy to see the direction the wind usually comes from, here. Jeeze..... 100 MPH.... I don't think I'll try to fly the Phantom there.... :-P

It isn't just the wind, which you captured strongly with that big tree bent over (whether from actual wind or the years of accumulated wind on its branches), it's also your composition and light/dark/hues. I can't tell whether it was windy the day you shot, because not everything is bent over; but as I say, the vegetation definitely shows the past-effects of wind, because it's grown in that tilted fashion that vegetation grows in, in very windy locales. It feels windswept. But the power of this shot is in your choices. The lighthouse and that deep gray sky is one strong half of the shot; but it's contrasted with a wallop, with the heavy left half, doused in shadows and darks, with a road almost black in one spot (black from shade), the way the road curves into that darkness and then winds out of it to circle the lighthouse---kind of drawing the two halves of the shot together---the red vegetation on the left, and the way everything piles into the frame's left edge---as if the wind, for years, just smashed that whole side of the landscape into a wall. (The 'wall', of course being the frame.) A marvelous composition, and very dramatic. And it has open mystery---the sea---and enclosed mystery---the path all in one. And btw, that lighthouse is dignified standing out there. A very thoughtful shot, with real quality. I've been to one hugely windy place, Mt Washington in New Hampshire where the gusts get huge; I don't know how it compares to this spot, but I do know what it's like to approach a place where the winds are an immense wall. I think, coming from Chicago, I was a little more prepared; but it was still a tidal wave to walk into, so I can imagine how it might feel here. Some winds can be so fierce, you lose your breath and your whole body turns to steel, just to get through it. Everyone should go through it once, to feel how powerful nature can get...

Powerful winds.... Nice capture. Aloha

Very nice capture. The forces of nature are always impressive.

'Just lean on me brother' - the tree is almost uprooted! - be careful to follow that pass, that you don't get accidentally get squashed there ... apart from all that wind - every picture tells a story and this one is hair-raising ;P BB

marvellous

I've gotten behind in visiting your gallery, Bill & I missed this gem. This composition is outstanding in every way...

Very romantic scene !

I love lighthouses and this whole photo shows life for a lightkeeper on the coast.