With this new Complete Guide to Lighthouses of Andalusia, the Asturian nautical photographer Félix González Muñiz obtains a new doctorate in twilight and dawn, since it is in that magic hour, in which the sun slowly approaches the horizon, when the light caresses with better criteria the lighthouses and the magical landscape that surrounds them.
36 lighthouses dot the Andalusian coast and all of them, from the El Rompido lighthouse in Huelva, to the Garrucha lighthouse in Almería, have been patiently and meticulously photographed by Félix, in a tour de force that includes thousands of kilometers of land travel , and also many miles by sea, in addition to countless hours spent at the foot of the lighthouse, waiting for the precise light or the vibration of the atmosphere necessary to press the camera shutter and get that unique snapshot, worthy of being perpetuated and shared .
After the success of his previous books Asturias Costa Atlántica (2014), Faros de Asturias (2017), Faros Mar Cantábrico (2019), Faros de Galicia (2020) and Complete guide to Cantábrico and Galicia lighthouses (2021), some of them already out of print and therefore, a collector’s item, this Guide also promises a good reception by the many fans of photography in general and those of the sea and lighthouses in particular, since the beauty of the images is combined with the more practical format of this edition: soft cover, smaller size, lighter weight, illustrative maps, summary of the characteristics of each lighthouse and a more contained price….all this makes this Guide an ideal travel companion, which invites and helps to explore the beautiful coast of Andalusia from lighthouse to lighthouse, what better excuse for a long, beautiful and secular pilgrimage?
The photographs are accompanied by some texts: the prologue, a brief introduction to each of the 5 Andalusian coastal provinces (Huelva, Cádiz, Málaga, Granada and Almería) and a few lines as captions for each of the 36 lighthouses, all of them written by Pepe Díaz, a sailor and philologist fond of putting one word after another, who regularly collaborates with Félix on his nautical-themed books.
