Hook Lighthouse at Dusk, WexfordEight hundred years. Hook Lighthouse has been standing on that headland for eight hundred years, and on this particular evening it felt like every one of them. I was down on the rocks below the peninsula as the last daylight drained out of the sky. Long exposure, somewhere around a minute, which meant dealing with the beacon. Every rotation threatened to blow out the frame completely. So I stood there in the dark on wet rock, hand over the lens,