Thanks to each and every person on this site, from the Webmaster and admins to the commenters and posters. Thank you guys for making me feel like a person with a passion and not a problem or an "unhealthy obsession".

I loved lighting far before I found this site, before I had ever opened a browser tab, before I could even talk (and back when I thought LEDs were the best lighting type, but we were all stupid as little kids). But I've always felt really alone in my passion, like nobody else in the world could ever like lights like I do. A large part of this probably comes form my parents. They would always say "you have to many lights" or "it's an unhealthy obsession" and they blamed my poor social life on my lighting passion (Spoiler: it's not ). Lighting-Gallery has really helped me feel like part of a community, like somewhere I can finally relate to people. It's proven to me that there's nothing wrong with me. Now I'm a freshman in highschool, my social life has improved and my light collection is still growing!

So thank you guys, and never let this site shut down.

I was (and am) bullied for liking street lights. I have been obsessed since I was like 1 or something! I’m usually shy, and do not have a good social life. But I do not believe it has anything to do with liking street lights.

I think this site is really fun! There are many brilliant characters!

But for now @lightbulbhpscfl stay strong, do not let people criticise your passion!

I'll give you my two cents worth.  I thought it was a strange hobby that I collect light bulbs about 50 years ago.  I did not find anything until I found this site.  I have been here for about 18 years now

I can relate to this so much, it's beyond words! I've always loved streetlights, even before I could walk or talk, let alone know what the internet was. As many of you may already know, I've always anthropomorphized them, and they always had souls, personalities, and something to say! Up until I joined this site in May of 2026, I didn't know any of the model names or manufacturers of the streetlights and parking lot lights I had been seeing for many years. Then, over the course of the summer, I learned from all of you guys about the models, manufacturers, and design lineages of the streetlights I had always seen, and now I can put a model name to all of them. I first learned about the GE M400, then the GE HMAA, the Holophane Mongoose, the AEL LuxMaster series, the GE Decashield, and so on and so forth!
Now, I can proudly identify about 95% of all the streetlights in my city, and it drives the people around me nuts. 

That's awesome. I thought I knew a lot about lights, but after seeing the people on this site, I don't know much at all.