After looking for lighthouses around the Black Sea for a couple of weeks, where I found some but couldn't find a lot of pictures of them, I decided to look for more popular lighthouses, specifically ones that have been photographed numerous times. I found a couple of Web sites with lists of popular lighthouses, which led me to Le Phare du Petit Minou, or (in English) the Petit Minou lighthouse.
It's located near Brest, France, which is on the northern coast of the Bay of Biscay. You know that part of France that sticks out west into the Celtic Sea, south of England? That's where it's located. (Click to jump to Google Maps.)
Here's how the Lighthouse Directory describes it:
"1848 (Louis Plantier). Active; focal plane 32 m (105 ft); two flashes every 6 s, white or red depending on direction; also a quick-flashing white light, focal plane 22 m (72 ft), which serves as the front light of the Portzic range. 26 m (85 ft) round granite tower with lantern and gallery, rising from a circular 1-story stone keeper's house. The tower is painted white on the southwest (seaward) side and is unpainted otherwise; lantern painted red. Fresnel lens in use. Next to the lighthouse is a shorter signal tower carrying radar equipment.Because this is a well-known and picturesque lighthouse, there are indeed lots of pictures of it. So I have a variety of them (6) below, and also a drone video, which seem to be proliferating all over YouTube.
The lighthouse is the front light of a range, with the Portzic lighthouse (see above) as the rear light. Located on an islet just offshore, connected to the mainland by an arched stone bridge, at the northern entrance to the Goulet de Brest, about 6 km (3.5 mi) southwest of La Trinité."
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