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It was a stormy day at Point Betsie today. The wind was howling in off the lake, bringing some decent sized waves. No matter what the weather is like, Betsie is always beautiful to me.
Scenic framing of a light tower and beacon on a coral reef serving as a navigational aid for boats and ships in the area. Guiding vessels and preventing them from running aground on the reefs.
The water appears calm with subtle ripples, varying shades of blue and turquoise indicating different depths or coral formations beneath the surface. The sky is clear and light-colored representing a fair weather and good visibility.
The presence of a smaller beacon in the background provides a sense of depth and scale, emphasizing the vastness of the seascape. The clear visibility of both light towers indicates good atmospheric conditions.
The overall impression is one of serenity and openness.
Those trees are a signature feature of the landscape at Point Betsie Lighthouse near Frankfort, Michigan.
I would rather have weather that gives us frozen lighthouses and channel markers, than 60F in December.
This is the south pier channel marker at St. Joseph from earlier this year.
Bring on winter!
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Today, all that remains of the Ardencaple Castle is a tower, perched on the edge of a plateau, looking down on a flat tract of land between it and the shore of the Firth of Clyde. The original castle was thought to have been built sometime in the 12th century, and part of the remains of the original castle were said to have existed in the 19th century.
In 1957 most of the castle was demolished by the government in order to build naval housing for the nearby HMNB Clyde (Faslane Naval Base). Today, that sole remaining tower is used as a navigational aid for shipping on the Firth of Clyde. Because of its use as a lighthouse the tower has been called Ardencaple Castle Light.
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The foliage in front of Point Betsie Lighthouse and the Fog Signal House was coated with ice from the spray of Lake Michigan's crashing waves.
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De Oude Grieken hielden zich al met steenmannetjes bezig. Volgens een mythe zouden de god Hermes en de godin Hera in een rechtszaak zijn verwikkeld. Verschillende goden die toekeken, mochten hun oordeel over de rechtszaak kenbaar maken door een steentje naar de god te gooien, die volgens hen vrijgesproken moest worden. Hermes wist de goden zo te overtuigen dat hij begraven werd onder de stenen: het eerste steenmannetje was ontstaan. Maar ook in de Scandinavische en Keltische mythologie spelen steenmannetjes een grote rol. Het waren de plekken waar trollen, elfen en andere mythische bergbewoners huisden.
In onze contreien zijn steenmannetjes meestal een belangrijk navigatiemiddel. Ze markeren routes waar markeringen met verf of andere middelen niet goed werken.
Ze zijn onmisbaar als routemarkering. Zeker als het mistig is, zie je een steenmannetje vaak eerder dan een geverfde markering. Het gebruik van steenmannetjes als navigatiemiddel is al eeuwenoud
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The ancient Greeks were already occupied with cairns. According to one myth, the god Hermes and the goddess Hera were involved in a lawsuit. Various gods who were watching were allowed to express their opinion on the trial by throwing a small stone at the god, who, according to them, should be acquitted. Hermes managed to convince the gods that he was buried under the stones: the first cairn was born. But cairns also play a major role in Scandinavian and Celtic mythology. They were the places where trolls, elves, and other mythical mountain dwellers lived.
In our region, cairns are usually an important navigational aid. They mark routes where markings with paint or other means don't work well.
They are indispensable as route markers. Especially in foggy conditions, you often see a cairn sooner than a painted marker. The use of cairns as a navigational aid is centuries old.
I've made three trips to Ferryland this summer to get an early morning shot of the lighthouse. This was the first good morning and, after meeting 3 moose on the road, I arrive to see they are painting the lighthouse. Looks like one more trip this fall. I have several from this trip I'll post over the next few weeks.
There was some super ice at Point Betsie - best I've seen there. I hope this is an indication of a good year for ice all along the western coast of Michigan!
New Presque Isle Lighthouse, built in 1870.
It was getting dark, and it was cold and windy when we arrived at this lighthouse. It was our last stop on a quick little day trip around the top of Michigan's Lower Peninsula.
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The crop in the field surrounding the Daymark has been cut and left in neat rows ready for bailing creating a different photo opportunity.
Diamond Head Lighthouse is a United States Coast Guard facility located on Diamond Head in Honolulu, on the island of Oʻahu in the State of Hawaiʻi.
The Michigan City Breakwater lighthouse is located in the harbor of Michigan City, Indiana. This is the successor to the Old Michigan City Light, when the lantern, lens and light was moved to the new light at the end of the newly extended pier. This is one of very few lights on the Great Lakes which still has the iron walkway atop the pier Wikipedia
I'm not a lighthouse fan. Oh, don't get me wrong. I'll photograph 'em if I see 'em. It's just that they're not a project like they are for some folks. So, while every other photographer in the area has photographed this lighthouse, it was my first time. We went here expecting lots of ice (google "ice covered lighthouse michigan city indiana" and see what I mean). Winter has not been that bad this year, but it was still interesting to shoot. Plus there were lots of other things to photograph as we wondered around northwest Indiana.
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February 7, 2025
And if you're curious, here's a webcam of the harbor and light. And if it's night, the lights on the horizon are Chicago.
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Out and back in the afternoon yesterday. The weather wasn't the best, but it wasn't the worst, either.
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Baileys Harbor
Door County, Wisconsin 45.070292,-87.119774
July 11, 2022
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Lindisfarne, Holy Island, Northumberland
I must confess that I wasn’t too impressed with this location on first sighting, but as always it was carefully researched by Mark and Geoff for good reason. Like most images it takes a little time to find the angles and viewpoints. I don’t think this will be the best you’ll see posted, but I like the construction and history side so hence my posting.
I’d put money on it that the majority of visitors to Holy Island never walk beyond the castle to this location so I was made up that we’d made the effort to visit and photograph it. It made the pint(s) in the Crown and Anchor all the more enjoyable while we waited for the tide to recede across the causeway.
I have no idea what it’s about and there was no information or plaque about it at the location. What little information does exist is this… it’s called Emmanuel Head (The White Pyramid) and was built between 1801 and 1810 by Trinity House. It is one of the earliest daymarks built in Britain (possibly the earliest one). A daymark is a navigational aid for shipping, and this one stands 35 feet high.
Historic Bodie Island Lighthouse Cape Hatteras National Seashore
Dare County, Coastal North Carolina
Accessed via NC-12 (Outer Banks Scenic Byway)
Date taken: August 21, 2015
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This past summer I spent over a week camping on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. On this particular afternoon, heavy skies began to build late in the evening and the color and quality of the light was just really sweet on the lush green marsh grasses. I couldn't help myself but to return to an old friend, the Bodie Island Lighthouse, and snap a few photographs.
I often wonder if the people in the middle of all the beauty know they're in the middle of it...
This was taken about half an hour before yesterday's upload.
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This is a black and white photograph of the Lighthouse erected on the Northern tip of Skopelos Island, Greece, at Cape Gourouni, viewed from afar. The 46-ft (14-m) high tower is rectangular and made of stone. The lighthouse has got a luminous range of 20 nautical miles; it functioned in 1884 for the first time.
The shot was inspired by the quotation from Virginia Woolf: ❝Lighthouses are endlessly suggestive signifiers of both human isolation and our ultimate connectedness to each other.❞
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Lighthouse Mouro
Foto: Rafael G. Riancho
The Power Of the Storm II
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Faros.Lighthouses
El fuerte Temporal sobre la Isla de Mouro.
Con olas que superan la altura del Faro (37,5 metros)
La espuma rompe y se queda "flotando"...
Lighthouse-Waves-Olas
Dartmoor crosses are a series of stone crosses, often used as directional aids due to the remoteness of the moorland and its typical bad weather. Some mark routes between Abbey's.
Crosses were erected over a long period of time, as recent as 100 years ago and the earliest approximately a 1000 years ago.
New Brighton Lighthouse (also known as Perch Rock Lighthouse / Black Rock Lighthouse) is a decommissioned lighthouse situated at the Mersey estuary on a rock outcrop off New Brighton known as Perch Rock. Together with its neighbour, the Napoleonic era Fort Perch Rock, it is one of the Wirral's best known landmarks.
For a gallery of images of Perch Rock Lighthouse please click here: www.jhluxton.com/Lighthouses/Mersey-Docks-and-Harbour-Boa...
The name Perch Rock comes from a Perch; a timber tripod supporting a lantern first erected in 1683 as a crude beacon to allow shipping to pass the rock safely.
As the Port of Liverpool developed in the Nineteenth Century the perch was deemed inadequate as it required constant maintenance and only produced a limited light.
Construction of the present tower began in 1827 by Tomkinson & Company using blocks of interlocking Anglesey granite using dovetail joints and marble dowels. The design uses many of the same construction techniques used in the building of John Smeaton's Eddystone Lighthouse 70 years earlier.
Modelled on the trunk of an oak tree, it is a free standing white painted tower with a red iron lantern. It is 29 m (95 ft) tall. It was first lit in 1830 and displayed two white flashes followed by a red flash every minute; the light-source was thirty Argand lamps, mounted on a three-sided revolving array (ten lamps on each side, with red glass mounted in front of one side).] There were also three bells mounted under the gallery to serve as a fog signal; the bells were rung by the same clockwork mechanism that caused the lamps to revolve.
The lighthouse, which was always operated by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board (Not Trinity House – the lighthouse authority for England and Wales) was in continuous use until decommissioned in October 1973 having been superseded by modern navigational technology.
Although the lighting apparatus and fog bell have been removed, the lighthouse is very well preserved and retains many features lost on other disused lighthouses.
It was restored and repainted in 2001 when an LED light source was installed which flashed the names of those lost at sea; including all the 1,517 victims of the sinking of the Titanic.
At low tide, it is possible to walk to the base of the tower, but a 25-foot ladder is needed to reach the doorway. The lighthouse is privately owned and maintained by the Kingham family, and is a Grade II* listed building.
Another plan to illuminate the lantern using LEDs and solar panels was achieved with a grant from the Coastal Revival and New Brighton Coastal Community Team (NBCCT) and has been operating (albeit only to be seen from land) since 2015.
Something that I have wanted to try for a while is a photo of the Daymark at Sunset. The Daymark was built as a navigational aid for shipping in 1864 and stands high up above Kingswear in South Devon.
Incase anyone is wondering there is a path across the field to the tower and I'm stood in the tractor tracks.
This lighthouse in Holland Michigan is one of the most iconic in the state. We have a bunch - all varieties - more than any other state.
Explored - peaked at 65
November 14, 2018
Nauset lighthouse with its distinctive red and white tower also has an alternating red and white light.
Nauset Light Beach
Cape Cod National Seashore
Eastham, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
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February 23, 2020
Race Point Lighthouse at the tip of Cape Cod.
Race Point Beach
Cape Cod National Seashore
Provincetown, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
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