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Pierce Point Ranch is one of the oldest ranches on the Point Reyes Peninsula and was one of the most successful dairy ranches of its time.
Now it is just a note in a brochure.
This area is just downstream and on a side channel from the main falls of Great Falls National Park. These rocks are pointing in the direction of the main channel of the Potomac River just below the main falls. The water level is low and has exposed this outcropping of rocks in the river.
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Anti-solar rays; seen from a jet window off the coast of Moloka'i, Hawaii. On black / blogged over here.
This image made it up to #100 on Flickr's Explore page for 1/25/2013 -- thanks a mint, everybody, for your comments and favorites!
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ANSH130 #6 "A point at the top of a building"
This is the steeple of a church on Ocean Drive near downtown Corpus Christi, TX. You can see Corpus Christi Bay in the background. This is a very steep, pointy steeple, it puts the steep in steeple.
Castle Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse near the village of Castlepoint in the Wellington Region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is owned and operated by Maritime New Zealand
Haven't taken anything for a couple of weeks with my camera off in the NT . Shot this with my old 350D which despite having a dud battery still manages a shot. This was a 4 shot stitch
Olympus OM2n / Zuiko 28mm f3.5 / Kodak Portra 400
South West Coast path from West Looe to Polperro, Cornwall, UK
Picnic Point was not very well known when I was a boy. It was located in the coastal Banksia heaths south of Bermagui on the southern coast of New South Wales, and we camped there whenever we could. It was not a campsite, and there were no toilets: one went equipped with a spade. There were, however, clearings amongst the Banksias where it was possible for us to pitch a tent, or in the even older days, to park our van, which was just big enough to accommodate my parents, lying longitudinally, and myself at right angles to them, if we slept like sardines. Picnic Point was worth all such minor discomforts.
Anyone who has not been to Australia will require some explanation of Banksias. They are named after Sir Joseph Banks, the redoubtable botanist on board Captain Cook’s Endeavour, and it is difficult to think of a more fitting or beautiful tribute. They grow to the height of small trees, their foliage a deep green on the upper surface, and a smoky white on the undersides, but it is the flowers which are most spectacular: great spikes of inflorescence, fat as hedgehogs and full of nectar, attracting honeyeaters by day and possums by night. And when the flowers go over, the Banksias produce cones, punctuated all over with pouting, woody lips, or swollen, half-closed boxers’ eyelids weeping seeds. Each morning, I would listen to the honeyeaters jabbering raucously as they clawed the Banksia flowers, and then it would be time to rekindle last night’s campfire with Banksia wood and spent cones.
After breakfast, we would take the blue and white metal enamel plates down to the beach, scour them in the sand, and wash them in the rockpools as gobies darted between our fingers. On one of the rocky parts, there was an ancient fossilised tree from the Carboniferous, as weird as the Banksias, etched in stone. And up on the point itself, there were shellfish middens: charred remains left by the aboriginals who once inhabited this coast. They too must have lain awake at dawn, laughing at the honeyeaters’ jokes.
Best of all were the evenings, perched around the campfire on one-legged stools – my father’s workmanship – brewing coffee and scorching foil-wrapped potatoes in the embers, listening for scrabblings and squeakings in the night. One night, after we had gone to bed, a bandicoot chewed all the way around the rubber seal of our car-fridge, leaving a ragged fringe of incisor-marks. Every night afterwards, we kept our eyes open for the bandicoots: a gleam of a beady eye, a glimpse of a proverbial long-nose, a snuffle in the sandy soil as the marsupial searched for grubs. There was damper kneaded with grubby fingers, and cakes made out of sea-lettuce, and once, when there were other campers beside us, there were parrot fish roasted over the flames. And then there were the night-time forays, walking the silent heath in breathless awe, carrying the glow and hiss of my father’s pressure lantern, searching for moths and glowing eyes.
Some years later, I returned to Picnic Point. It was not an easy time, and my stomach was tied in griping knots. The road was wider, not the sand track I remembered, covered with the conical traps of ant-lions. The places where we used to camp were now official National Parks and Wildlife campsites, with concrete barbecues, and somewhere in the distance, I realised with horror, there must be a toilet, concrete and reeking of disinfectant. I walked out to the point and gazed out to sea. I wandered back and paused by a Banksia, and as I did so, a honeyeater burst out of it with cackling shouts. I closed my eyes, and for a moment, I was back then.
Photograph by Leslie Watson, c. 1976.
Death Valley National Park is just a two hour drive away from Las Vegas, but it feels a world apart. And after a day spent submerged in the thick crowds and flashing lights, we were more than ready to get out of town for a bit.
We made it to the park just after sunset, and got to Zabriskie Point just as the last light of the day was fading away.
Advanced security robot powered by an experimental zero-point generator. Nicknamed "Dot" by her designers.
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Features 38 points of articulation. Additional photos on the Instagram post: www.instagram.com/p/B-pjeHWpkZx/
Spurn Point (also known as Spurn Head) is a narrow sand spit on the tip of the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire. It reaches into the North Sea and forms the north bank of the mouth of the Humber estuary.
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Point Lonsdale Sunrise - I've been revisiting my older photos and becoming reinvigorated in getting back into photography. I love this location , with its view to Point Nepean across the Heads
or that point where I finally merge with everything
Lake County, Oregon, 2024
Zenza Bronica S2A, Nikkor 75mm, Kodak Tmax 100
Point Reyes, California
Point Reyes is a prominent cape on the Pacific coast of northern California. It is located in Marin County approximately 30 mi (48 km) WNW of San Francisco. The term is often applied to the Point Reyes Peninsula, the region bounded by Tomales Bay on the northeast and Bolinas Lagoon on the southeast.
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Pigeon Point Lighthouse
San Mateo County, California
From Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_Point_Lighthouse
My infrared-converted DSLR is a Nikon D750, modified by Life Pixel with their Deep BW IR (830nm) sensor filter. I use DxO PhotoLab's Black & White presets as starting points for conversion of the NEF ("raw") file. I also use the Hoodman Live View kit, which makes it easier to work with my D750 in live view mode.
After 'foretaste' I headed up over the headland to catch the show in case it was a fizzer ..
This is above the entry to the 'Blowhole' that Kiama is famous for, interestingly when looking south (as we are here) at Kiama we're looking to the 'Heights' and Kiama Downs is in the North - has always tickled my sense of irony.
Olympus OM-1 w M.Zuiko 7-14/2.8 Pro
ISO800 f/11 7mm 8s x three frames shot as a vertical Panorama.
Raw developed in DxO PhotoLab, stitched and corrected in Affinity Photo 2, colour graded in Nik6 Color Efex, touched up in Topaz Denoise and finished off back in PhotoLab.
Kiama Blowhole, Kiama, NSW
Architect: C.F. Møller
Built in: Phase 1: 2008-2011, phase 2: 2011-
Client: Annehem Fastigheter AB
Point Hyllie will be an important part of the new urban space around Hyllie station square. The development consists of four tower blocks rising up from a column-supported base.
The tallest building will be approximately 95 m high, the next-tallest 49 m, and the final two between 29 and 23 m high. The two tallest buildings, the twin towers, will according to the architect symbolize a gateway to Sweden.
The project will encompass 300 homes as well as offices and shops, and will form a distinctive landmark in the area.
San Pedro, CA
The lighthouse was built in 1874 and designed by Paul J. Pelz, who also designed Point Fermin's sister stations, East Brother Island Light in Richmond, California, Mare Island Light, in Carquinez Strait, California (demolished in the 1930s), Point Hueneme Light in California (replaced in 1940), Hereford Inlet Light in North Wildwood, New Jersey, and Point Adams Light in Washington State (burned down by the Lighthouse Service in 1912), all in essentially the same style. The original fourth order Fresnel lens was removed in 1942 and a wood replica lantern was installed in 1974. The lighthouse was saved from demolition in 1972 and refurbished in 1974, and a new lantern room and gallery were built by local preservationists. In 1972, the light was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Historical Information from Coast Guard web site:
Point Fermin Light was built in 1874 with lumber from California redwoods. In 1941 the light was extinguished due to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. There was fear that the light would serve as a beacon for enemy planes and ships. Later, the lantern room and gallery were removed. They were replaced by a lookout shack that remained for the next 30 years and was referred to as "the chicken coop" by locals. In 1972 the light was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The light fell into disuse and disrepair. A new lantern room and gallery were built in 1974.
The building has now been restored to its original state and is open to the public as the Point Fermin Lighthouse Historic Site and Museum.
U.S. Coast Guard Archive:
The original Fresnel lens from the lighthouse, removed in the 1940s, had been missing for decades. After being found and positively identified, on November 13, 2006, the lens was relocated to a display in the restored lighthouse museum from the real estate office of Louis Busch in Malibu, California where it had been on display.
The lighthouse is open daily except for Monday and holidays.
In 1986, the lighthouse appeared in a second-season episode of Amazing Stories, "Magic Saturday".
In June 2011, the General Services Administration made the Point Fermin Light (along with 11 others) available at no cost to public organizations willing to preserve them.
Delaware Lackawanna PO74 heads east through Point of Gap with C425s 2457 and 2457 on March 24, 2024. The train later ran to Portland Generating Station in Mount Bethel, PA to retrieve the lingering interchange traffic from Norfolk Southern following the repairs to a washout in Henryville.
"Point Judith Light is located on the west side of the entrance to Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island as well as the north side of the eastern entrance to Block Island Sound. The confluence of two waterways make this area busy with water traffic and the waters around Point Judith are very cold and dangerous. Historically, even with active lighthouses, there have been many shipwrecks off these coasts.
Three light structures have been built on this site. The original 35-foot (11 m) tower, built in 1810, was destroyed by a hurricane in 1815. It was replaced in 1816, by another 35-foot stone tower with a revolving light and ten lamps. The present octagonal granite tower was built in 1856. The upper half of the tower is painted brown and the lower half white to make the light structure a more effective daymark for maritime traffic. In 1871, ship captains asked that Point Judith's fog signal be changed from a horn to whistle. This change distinguished the Point Judith light from the Beavertail Lighthouse, which used a siren to announce fog. A whistle could also be heard more distinctly over the sounds of the surf in the area. Point Judith Light was automated in 1954, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988." (Wikipedia)
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