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My childhood lighthouse. My parents took us to Montauk each summer from 1982 to 1997, and we would visit the lighthouse each time. Along with the Cape Elizabeth light, it formed my idea of what a lighthouse should be. I didn't see it again until about 2022, driving out two days after Thanksgiving - only to find a "light the light" party, in which it had been covered in Christmas Lights (a very unaesthetic look for my beloved lighthouse) and definitely not the "Old Montauk" I was hoping to find a few traces of. Revisiting last March finally gave me shots I was happy with, of "my" lighthouse.
"The Montauk Point Light, or Montauk Point Lighthouse, is a lighthouse located adjacent to Montauk Point State Park at the easternmost point of Long Island in Montauk, New York. The lighthouse was the first to be built within the state of New York. It is the fourth oldest active lighthouse in the United States. Montauk Point Light is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2012, it was designated as a National Historic Landmark for its significance to New York and international shipping in the early Federal period.
The lighthouse, which is located on Turtle Hill at the easternmost tip of Long Island, at 2000 Montauk Highway, is a privately run museum, and is not part of Montauk Point State Park.
Montauk Light was the first lighthouse in New York State, and is the fourth-oldest active lighthouse in the United States. The tower is 110 feet 6 inches (33.68 metres) high. The current light is a 31⁄2 order bivalve (clamshell) Fresnel lens.
On April 12, 1792, construction on the lighthouse was authorized by the 2nd United States Congress under President George Washington. Ezra L'Hommedieu, a lawyer, member of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, and a man with scientific interests, consulted with Washington on its construction. He represented the New York City Chamber of Commerce on discussions related to the lighthouse. He made the case that New York City "was first among American ports in the volume of its foreign commerce. By 1797, the harbor was handling a third of the nation's trade with other countries." Due to prevailing winds in winter, shippers approaching from sea needed a lighthouse at the end of Long Island to guide them along the south side into New York harbor.
L'Hommedieu chose the site for the lighthouse and designed it. The project began on June 7, 1796, and was completed on November 5, 1796, the first public works project of the new United States of America. Sometime in early April 1797, keeper Jacob Hand lit the wicks in the lamps in the tower, and the lighthouse began operation. It continued under civilian keepers until World War II, when the US Army took it over.
In 1860, the lighthouse station underwent a massive renovation when two new levels and a larger lantern were added. This increased the height of the tower from its original 80 feet (1796) to its current height of 110 feet 6 inches (33.68 metres). A first-order Fresnel lens—12 feet high, 6 feet (3.7 x 1.8 m) in diameter, and weighing about 10,000 pounds—was installed in the new lantern; the current keeper's dwelling was constructed adjacent to the tower, and the original 1796 dwelling was demolished. A steam-powered fog signal was installed in 1873, with a fog signal building in 1897. The tower was originally all white; its single brown stripe was added in 1899. A fourth-order fixed red range-light was added to the watch deck of the tower in 1903 to warn of Shagwong Reef, a navigational hazard about 31⁄2 miles northwest of the lighthouse. This light was severely damaged in the hurricane of September 21, 1938, and removed on July 1, 1940, when the lighthouse was electrified. The huge first-order Fresnel lens was replaced in 1903 with a 31⁄2 order bivalve Fresnel lens, which served until February 3, 1987, when it was replaced with an airport beacon with a strength of 2.5 million candela. However, as of November 6, 2023, the 31⁄2 order bivalve Fresnel lens that was replaced in 1987 has been restored and is now back atop the lighthouse.
During World War II, the lighthouse was taken over by the U.S. Army as part of the Eastern Coastal Defense Shield. The last three civilian keepers, Thomas Buckridge, Jack Miller, and George Warrington, departed in the spring of 1943.
In 1946, the United States Coast Guard took over maintenance of the lighthouse and operated it until the station was automated on February 3, 1987. In May of that year, the lighthouse museum opened to the public, operated by the Montauk Historical Society. It leased the property from the US Coast Guard for that purpose. On September 30, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed legislation transferring the lighthouse property to the Montauk Historical Society.
The tower was built on Turtle Hill 300 feet (90 m) from the edge of the cliff; due to the cumulative effects of shoreline erosion, it is now 100 feet (30 m) away from the edge. After World War II, the United States Army Corps of Engineers built a seawall at its base, but the erosion continued. The Coast Guard considered tearing down the lighthouse in 1967 and replacing it with a steel tower farther from the edge of the bluff. In the wake of protests over the announced dismantling of the tower, Congressman Michael Forbes proposed a bill to the United States Congress to hand over the Lighthouse to the Montauk Historical Society from the public so it could be preserved; the bill was passed.
On March 2, 2012, United States Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar officially designated the lighthouse as a National Historic Landmark; it is the 14th site on Long Island and the 11th lighthouse in the country to be so recognized.
Pirate Captain Kidd was said to have buried treasure at the foot of the lighthouse site around 1699 at two ponds which today are called "Money Ponds." (Wikipedia)
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I've not been taking photos with my Leica M-E for some time as it suffers from the sensor corrosion problem which affects many of these camera (M9/M-E). I'm not entitled to a free sensor replacement so if I want the job done it will cost me in excess of £1000 which is a sore bite. However, today I went for a drive and took the Leica outfit for a rare outing. The M-E is a wonderful camera and a small bag contains the camera and five lenses.
I was a bit late setting off so the light wasn't great at my chosen location. I abandoned that idea and decided to return home the scenic route and encountered some decent light near Ardtreck Point. Here are two different treatments of the view.
The lens used was a Leica Tele-Elmar 135mm f4 which is at least 50 years old. It took me ages to clone out all the corrosion spots but I think it was worth it.
Muley Point is a remote cliff and scenic overlook in southern Utah near Mexican Hat in San Juan County, Utah. The view provides panoramic vistas of the desert landscape of southern Utah (Valley of the Gods) and northern Arizona. Monument Valley is visible in the distance while the San Juan River cuts into the canyon below.
Located at the end of a five-mile gravel road off Rte. 261, Muley Point is 25 miles (40 km) south of Natural Bridges National Monument and 20 miles (32 km) north of the Arizona border. Its geographical coordinates are 37°13′59″N 109°59′36″W. It lies at an elevation of 6,230 feet (1,900 meters).
[Wikipedia contributors. (2023, January 23). Muley Point (San Juan County, Utah). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 18:56, January 8, 2024, from en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Muley_Point_(San_Juan_County,_Utah)&oldid=1135239668]
The 17 floor octagonal tower of the Wrest Point Casino Hotel makes a striking contrast with the 1939 Art Deco styled building from the original Riviera Hotel. Normally this entrance driveway would be full of cars unloading guests, but with borders closed tourists are very scarce indeed.
The buildings of the Riviera Hotel were in fact used to keep people in quarantine during the initial lock down phase of the Covid-19 crisis. But now, even most of those have gone. Grim times indeed for the hospitality industry.
The Wrest Point Tower was designed by Australia's leading architect of the times, Sir Roy Grounds. It is described as a Dodecagonal prism tower, 64 metres in height. To this day it is still the tallest building in Hobart. There is a revolving restaurant on the top floor. It was opened on February 10, 1973.
For the more scholarly minded, here is a paper entitled: "The Significance of Wrest Point in
Tasmania's Tourism and Hospitality Industry."
pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0210/f194707fe51bb05eecc0d2e856a...
Tomorrow I'll tell you a little more about how Australia's first casino got its license.
Wow, this one is amazing. If you think it looks stunning and would be a dream to photograph, you're right. The picture does not do this one justice. This was shot about 10 minutes before official sunset around 22:20 local time. At this point in the year, there is no true "sunset" or "dark" and you hover between twilights, depending on the hour and where you are in Scotland. The clouds and limited light give the image such character. Shot with a Sigma 14-24mm on my 5D @ 14mm.
About: Neist Point Lighthouse, designed by David Alan Stevenson, was first lit on 1 November 1909. An aerial cableway is used to take supplies to the lighthouse and cottages. Since 1990, the lighthouse has been operated remotely from the Northern Lighthouse Board headquarters in Edinburgh.
Point Defiance park, Ruston, Washington.
The Dahlias are starting to bloom, soon it will be Dahlia heaven...
Dahlia Trial Garden
One of the largest official trial gardens in the US and Canada, the Dahlia Trial Garden is sponsored and maintained in cooperation with the Washington Dahlia Society.
Chanonry Lighthouse, originally a 'one-man station', is situated on the Black Isle, south of Rosemarkie, as the moray Firth narrows between Chanonry Point and Fort George.
The establishment of a light on Chanonry Point was first proposed in 1834 and again in 1837 by the Commissioners' Engineer, Alan Stevenson, but it was not until 1843 that the motion to erect such a lighthouse was approved by the Commissioners. In May 1843 the Commissioners made representations to Trinity House who duly approved the proposed seamark in July 1843.
The cost of building the lighthouse and lightkeepers' dwellings was £3,570 and the light was first exhibited on the night of 15 May 1846.
When the station was manned, the lightkeeper, in addition to his normal lightkeeping duties, was the "Observer" of Munlochy Shoal, Middle Bank East, Craigmee, Riff Bank East and Navitty Bank Lighted buoys.
The station was automated in 1984 and is now remotely monitored from the Northern Lighthouse Board’s offices in Edinburgh.
It should be noted that at some sites the Northern Lighthouse Board have sold some redundant buildings within the lighthouse complex and are not responsible for the maintenance of these building.
Apologies, not uploaded anything for a few days due to illness, but kind of back with an edited image from last week.
Previous set of Pripyat here www.flickr.com/photos/timster1973/sets/72157643944616235/
Named for the nearby Pripyat River, Pripyat was founded on 4 February 1970, the ninth nuclear city in the Soviet Union, for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979, and had grown to a population of 49,360 before being evacuated a few days after the 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Though Pripyat is located within the administrative district of Ivankiv Raion, the abandoned city now has a special status within the larger Kiev Oblast (province), being administered directly from Kiev. Pripyat is also supervised by Ukraine's Ministry of Emergencies, which manages activities for the entire Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
Access to Pripyat, unlike cities of military importance, was not restricted before the disaster as nuclear power stations were seen by the Soviet Union as safer than other types of power plants. Nuclear power stations were presented as being an achievement of Soviet engineering, where nuclear power was harnessed for peaceful projects. The slogan "peaceful atom" (Russian: mirnyj atom) was popular during those times. The original plan had been to build the plant only 25 km (16 mi) from Kiev, but the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, among other bodies, expressed concern about it being too close to the city. As a result, the power station and Pripyat were built at their current locations, about 100 km (62 mi) from Kiev. After the disaster the city of Pripyat was evacuated in two days.
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Built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1873, and designed by E. Francis Baldwin, the Point of Rocks station is situated at the junction of the B&O Old Main Line (running to Baltimore) and the Metropolitan Branch (running to Washington, D.C.).
The Met Branch also opened in 1873 and became the principal route for passenger trains between Baltimore, Washington, and points west.
The station building itself is not open to the public and is used by CSX as storage and offices for maintenance of way crews.
The annoyingly-not-quite-vertical lighthouse!
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You can only get to the Battery Point lighthouse in Crescent City by car or on foot during low tide.