This is actually kind of sad :( RIP Lightkeeping profession - thank you to all the lighthouse keepers that helped bring our people home alive for so many years
@@tomfisher9089 Breaking: Human male discovers that in exchange for goods and services the counterparty expects something in return. Up Next: Do Humans need food? And if they do, how will they obtain it if they are no farmers?
Fortunately*, there are indeed systems in place, that still "bring our people home alive", without many humans actually living such remote existences for all those years. (* Not a matter of fortune at all - it's just good old progress without the often misplaced sentimentality. 👍🙂)
@@rm5146 This epic photograph is also displayed in the intensive cares quarter of the public hospital in Geneva, it has been there for years.. Just at the entrance of it.
I have this picture hanging in my lounge room. I have had it since 1989 and I am always fascinated by it. So glad I know the story behind it, and have seen the real man himself now. Wow. What still gets me is just how casual he was...look at him....hand in his pocket !! Ha !! I know he didn't see the wave, but he still knew it was a very windy and heavy sea day, and yet so casual. Love it !!
I have it on our Log Wall next to our Fireplace in our den. I’ve read online that the picture has sold over 500 thousand times!! our picture is pretty big but it’s not quite as big as this wall poster picture. That this lighthouse keeper was given.
my late wife got me mine for Christmas in 2007. It hangs on the wall in our guest bathroom which has a Nautical theme. It's often commented on by lots of people that see it for the first time.
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some of them do but after millions of hits remember the walls are made for that exact purpose the walls are 5 feet thick and they are 50 feet in the ground/sea
Facebook needs a remember/bookmark feature. I can't lose this video. This picture meant so much to me having it on my wall in giant poster form in my late teen/university years. What a gem finding this video. Absolutely love these guys for doing all of this.
From a young age to the present day I wish to spend a year in a lighthouse. For me it is a symbol of patience and withstand the storms of life. And a guide for the safety of others
@@GaborPetre-dl3xs I would really like to understand what you wrote because honestly, I didn't understand anything despite the RU-vid translation, but nevertheless I put 👍 for your two comments
I've marveled over that remarkable, iconic photo over the years...in many locations in my travels. Like others, I always wondered about the fate of the lighthouse keeper at that moment and the circumstances behind how the photo was created. This video was fascinating to hear the story behind it...and the outcome. As a photographer myself, all of us strive to take that one indelible, timeless image that will outlive us. Some of us accomplish it...most don't. One motto I've always followed over the years is when someone asks me how I decide where to be to stand when taking a photo - I metaphorically tell them to look at where everyone else is - and stand somewhere else.
@Stevey B I’ve wanted to know the story behind the photo. There was no internet in 1991 and basically impossible to found out that information. So yeah I have waited all my life to find out the story.
"A lot of people thought he must have died, just a few seconds after the photograph, swamped by that wave...but he survived - and I'm going to find out how." As a kid, I assumed he just walked inside and shut the door. Now, we finally hear that he... ... just walked inside and shut the door. 😐
@@x-raytech7811 Technology saved plenty of people as well and it also made lives easier for many. People talk plenty to each other, only cynical assholes who love seeing everything being bad think otherwise. Kinda funny, you shit on technology with a name such as X-Ray Tech. You realize that one thing revolutionized medical technology and saved lots of lives. You're a stupid person did you know that. Technology destroys some jobs, but it also creates new jobs.
@@flybeep1661 u r a bit rude but I will still respond. Technology discovered x-rays but also atomic bombs that killed at once in japan a lot more lives than we have cured sick people around the world maybe since 1945 till now. Also they broke the treaty of nuclear deal last week so they ll build more bombs now. Technology also extend the life span of elderly but also sufferage with it. In Syria right now advanced countries dropping bombs on civilians. I can name many more examples.
Finally!! I've always wondered if lighthouse keeper survived. I've had "La Jument" lighthouse picture for over 25 years. Everyone asks me the same thing including where the lighthouse is etc. It's survived over 18 different moves through four states because it's one of my favorite pictures. Thank you for posting!!
The Bretons 💪in the Oceanstorms are like Sahraouis in the Sandstorm or Himalayan Sherpa in Snowstorm..... They just feel good in their element. When "normals classics" people just pray to survive😖 We are the Frenchtastics 😘🙋🏻♂️with love. NB : photographer and helicopter pilot was amazing to 👏 Thanks to alls
It's sad that technology, and GPS, have made this sort of job obsolete. I grew up as a kid in the 1970's, and when you didn't have cell phones, or Google, there was an awful lot about life, and the world, that you simply did not know. You grew up with a sense of "mystery", and believe it or not, there was a time when not having instant answers to all questions was a *GOOD* thing. You grew up with *WONDER* . It's sad that no kids today can grow up with a sense of wonder.
I remember this photo! Incredible timing. So he didn't know the wave was coming and for some strange reason a helicopter is outside. He opens the door to see what heck is going on and BAM, he is famous. That is funny. Thank you Sir.
What a great story and encounter between the lighthouse keeper and the plucky photographer who's helicopter noise made the keeper so curious he opened his 'front door' to see who was there! I had this photo on my wall for many years, until it faded. Here's a link to another amazing lighthouse adventure of Ushant: Insane Shift Change of French Lighthouse Keepers The change of shift at Kereon lighthouse in the Iroise Sea, the last French sea lighthouse to become automated 10 years ago.
Loved this short story with so much positive comments...wish I could've had my OWN copy of the photo just to share the experience with everyone here...great job indeed!!
Up until about 30 to 35 years ago here in the United States we still had between 80 and 115 “Lighthouse” Employees. And, I know I’m not the only one that feels so pissed off pertaining to what I say next. None of these jobs had to go the way of the wind. NOT. A. ONE, DID. These jobs could have been preserved. And, They should have been. Because, just like the lighthouses themselves, that are preserved in history, so was being a, “LIGHTHOUSE-KEEPER.” we have dozens and dozens of light houses here in the United States that are preserved under local, state, and federal protection. And by Congress. The jobs should have, and could have been secured by Congress!!!!!
Wow Love lighthouses and their history Magnificent structures built by brave men and populated by men of strength and character Awesome footage and this is from a series called 'Coast'
I purchased this picture of the lighthouse in 2005 from Ikea and had it over my sofa for seven years. I loved it and i sold it in a yard sale for $50 😁
I've always wondered about the background of this picture. Having been a lightkeeper on the west coast of British Columbia for 45 years. I hope to get a copy of this for my wall one day. Thanks for the story. And yes our lighthouses are still manned here in Canada.
your comment is a great small story. which lighthouse did you keep if you don't mind? I saw that photo when I was in elementary and always wonder about where was taken, from where...with a telephoto, who was the guy and so... watching this mini-documentary and reading all these nice comments made my day.
D33P S3A started my career at Egg island ltstn. Then to Addenbrooke ltstn. Then Langara ltstn. Then to Pachena Point ltstn then finished at Pulteney Point ltstn. Served as Principal Ltkpr at each station with the exception of Egg Is. 1973-2018.
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I also bought it for my late husband around the same time. Was a very large framed print with a scripture verse placed under the photograph. Always thought it was an amazing photograph and thought about what someone had to endure doing that job. ❤
First seeing that picture decades ago I was drawn to it’s ominous beauty, but like many, I too feared the guy met a terrible fate. Thankfully not so and what a great story.
How with waves like this, and I've even seen bigger ones that engulf the entire structure, do the keepers survive? Surely they must flood and the windows would break. And if you went to the top you would be washed away or still engulfed with water from many pictures I've seen. Just curious.
I've heard a lot of foreign accents speaking in French but this time hearing a Scottish accent in French was well... really different. Perhaps the only other one that was more "off the shelf" was that of an Alabama man trying to say "Tue" which sounded more like "Toe"
I have a poster of this and it is a powerful image. I would have liked to know what it is like to be inside that structure during a storm. Do the walls shake at all; can you feel when the wave crash around you; what does it sound like; did he ever wonder if a particularly bad storm would take him out; can you hear the wind from inside?
I was given a large, framed print of the wave crashing into the stalwart lighthouse. I never knew where it was until now. Thanks for posting! Great narration!
It's mostly what bought me here ? To know more about how and why the picture was taken. I feel it's amazing how the Lighthouse could withstand the continuous pounding from the sea.
concrete needs to set... and might need a couple days.... so how did they... how did the masons.... do this in 1911? The precast-drag-moor and anchor methods didn't exist then...
wow i saw this picture back in 1989 in a picture frame stored at manhattan i was working as a security guard and i always stare at that picture thinking how in the word this person was there....
Interesting! The photographer flew there to capture the last days of the manned lighthouse before automation took over and the keeper came out at the sound of the helicopter- very serendipitous.
1:55 No way, is it the most produced image, of any year. images on stamps banknotes and coins and other official documents are way more produced. 4:00 So, the lighthouse-man only went out because he heard the helicopter and thought it may have been lighthouse business; he could have been killed on account of the photographer. o0o
I would like to know how this Lighthouse was built so long ago, without all of the current day technology. I mean how did they lay the base in weather like that?
I think the stones are "Granit Breton" called "pierre de taille". See here: www.histoiremaritimebretagnenord.fr/activit% C3% A9s-maritimes/phares-et-balises /
Amazing!!!…I was a Lighthouse Keepers daughter…my Great Great Grandfather , my Great Grandfather, my Grandfather, my Father were all lighthouse keepers in Australia…we lived on an Island..my Dad lived on 2 Islands..I didn’t like the lifestyle as a child but would love to be back there at anyone of them now as an older woman..
I think the Celtic people who as germanic origins, reach Britanny BEFORE they go to Great Britain...whe found Celtic archeologic's in the north half of France, particulary in Alsace , close to the Rhine river along the german border...
wow! this giant photo has been in my dad office since I was a kid, me and my cousin would always stare and wonder about the story of the photo. very interesting.
I have finally discovered the Photo Man and the Man in the Lighthouse. In 1989 I was in California and we had an Earthquake and I was put in Charge of a Earthquake Committee for my company, and it ran until I left in 1994. Shortly thereafter, I found this Photograph and I was in awe and in amazement, of the thrust and power of the Ocean Waves and how strong they were in the picture. I was so inspired of this picture that it has never left my mind and heart. The inspiration came when I was reading Matthew 7:24-29 one day. Then it happened, my heart began to race at how Jesus Christ allows the waves to hit and batter a lighthouse. And at the same time; as I trust him, no matter how strong the winds and the rains come my way, my house or life will not fall. Because I have built my life Upon the Rock and not on Sand. Be Blessed in knowing a God who allows you to be tested, just to make of you a Strong Character - Lighthouse !
