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Point Vicente Lighthouse was built in 1926 on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. The light source was dimmed during World War II to avoid aiding the enemy. It was automated in 1971 by the United States Coast Guard. The original third-order Fresnel lens still revolves in the lantern room. In 2015, the Coast Guard announced its intention to install an LED light with a 14 nm range, replacing the current light and lens.
The Point Vicente Lighthouse is just north of the entrances to the Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbors. It was operated and maintained by the United States Lighthouse Service prior to that Service being merged with the U.S. Coast Guard, which was delegated all aid-to-navigation responsibilities in 1939. The lighthouse was manned until 1971 when it was automated by a remote electronic aids-to-navigation monitoring system.
The white cylindrical tower is 67 feet (20 m) tall, and the masonry structure is built on the edge of a 130-foot (40 m) cliff. This places the center of the lantern 185 feet (56 m) above the ocean, and because of this elevation, the 1.1 million candlepower-beam has a nominal (clear weather) visible range of 24 nautical miles (44 km; 28 mi). The Coast Guard Light List specifies its light characteristic as being a pair of two white flashes, repeating that pair every 20 seconds. An emergency light of reduced intensity operates if the main light is extinguished. The most striking feature in the lighthouse is the classical third-order rotating Fresnel Lens located in the lantern. This particular lens was manufactured around 1910 in Paris, France, by Barbier, Bernard and Turenne, the oldest lens making company in the world. This lens is made up of hand-ground prisms held in place by a cast brass frame. The prisms and frame represent an excellent example of the precision achieved by optical scientists and the lens making art in utilizing the known principles and properties of light.
This lighthouse also incorporates a pleasant-sounding foghorn to audibly warn ships during times of low visibility which are common to the area.
Point Reyes is the windiest place on the Pacific Coast and the second foggiest place on the North American continent. Weeks of fog, especially during the summer months, frequently reduce visibility to hundreds of feet. The Point Reyes Headlands, which jut 10 miles out to sea, pose a threat to each ship entering or leaving San Francisco Bay. The historic Point Reyes Lighthouse warned mariners of danger for more than a hundred years.
Point Bolivar Light is in Port Bolivar, Texas. The lighthouse was built in 1872. It was retired in 1933 when it was replaced by another lighthouse.
The swanky towers of the Back Bay are seen over the still developing lots along the Fort Point Channel from Summer Street in the quickly changing South Boston Waterfront. Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Las elegantes torres de Back Bay se ven a la distancia desde Summer Street, en la rapidamente cambiando zona costera de South Boston, sobre los terrenos en desarrollo a lo largo del Canal Fort Point. Boston, Massachusetts, EE. UU.
70 miles to the east these clouds were all being funneled into the northern Cascade range creating a massive downpour that I had traveled through earlier in the day. Here though they did not rain and instead created a spectacular checkerboard of dark cloud and blue sky that the sun illuminated as it set.
Wind point has always been one of my favorite places to catch a sunrise. When I spotted the remains of this tree down the shoreline I knew I had to work it into a composition.
And not a soul to sit. Happy Bench Monday.
Wellington Point, Redlands, SE Queensland on a fine and clear day.
Mulholland Point Light, 1B4, Narrows Road, Welshpool, New Brunswick, Canada
Captured from the other side of Union Cove with the International Bridge in the background.
I wasn't sure how much lens I would need to make this capture, so I brought the 150 - 600 mm zoom on my little hike along the north shore of Union Cove to make this capture. Luckily 150 mm was short enough to include a good part of the bridge, since I feel it adds an interesting element to the image. And made even a bit more interesting in that there are quite a few lighthouses in Maine that have bridges from the mainland (or larger island) to lighthouses on smaller islands just off the shoreline. The International Bridge, of course, doesn't go to the lighthouse, but I liked the way the short tele stacked them up and made it look like it did.
Regarding distances:
The lighthouse was about a quarter mile from the camera, and the bridge was about another quarter mile from the lighthouse, so distance and perspective play a big role in how things line up in this image.
Pigeon Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse built in 1871 to aid ships sailing along the rocky Northern California coast heading in to San Francisco Bay after a number of ships, most notably the Carrier Pigeon for which the lighthouse is named, sank on the shallow rocks just off shore. It is the tallest of the lighthouses in California and along the western cost of the United States standing at 115 feet (35 Meters). It's proximity to San Francisco, easy access from historic California Highway One and the remarkable scenery surrounding the Lighthouse makes it the most popular and picturesque lighthouse along the entire Pacific Coast. The first-order Fresnel lens which illuminated the New England style tower with 24 beams of light has currently been removed while the upper portion of the tower undergoes restoration. The lighthouse still functions with a smaller Coast Guard Beacon mounted on the exterior of the lighthouse.
Upon our arrival the entire area was covered in cloud when finally the sun broke from beneath the clouds at just the right angle to create a glow on the clouds above while still illuminating the lighthouse, rocks and breaking waves. The deep orange hues of the setting sun caused the red rock and fence to almost glow in red light. Yet there was still enough white light to bring out the blue waves below. This didn't last very long and scenery was constantly changing causing us to dash around the lighthouse to try and get the best angle on the ever-changing light. Days like these are hard to come by. The lighthouse is usually covered by fog or in stunningly clear
skies. But every so often, you get one of the most spectacular sunsets you will witness as the sun slips below the horizon of the Pacific.
No, those are not specks of dust to the right of the lighthouse, but seagulls and pelicans soaring high above the cliffs in a light ocean breeze. They show up nicely in the full 36Mpixel version. The green just below the lighthouse is actually ice plant that hangs from the rocky bluffs like
brilliant green and red curtains. I wish I could do more than just describe the soft smell of the salt air, the sound of the waves breaking on the rocks below in order to make the scene inclusive.
© Darvin Atkeson
Uno de los grandes meandros del RÃo Colorado visto desde el mirador del Parque estatal Dead Horse Point, ubicado a unos 50 km de la ciudad de Moab (Estado de Utah, Estados Unidos).
ENGLISH CAPTION: "Dead Horse Point" This is a panoramic view taken from a natural balcony over one of the bends of the Colorado River in the Dead Horse Point State Park, located at about 50 km from the city of Moab (Utah, USA).
1/400 sec @ Æ’ 5,6 @ ISO 100 (Panorama)
Sony DSC-W5
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I recently got back from a wonderful trip to New Brunswick. The main aim of the trip was to photograph fishing weirs. Despite that, I just couldn't resist photographing some lighthouses, including this lovely one on Campobello Island, so I'll start my postings from that trip with a short series of lighthouse images. It will take me a while to go through and process the weir images, so stay tuned for those!
Mulholland Point Lighthouse first went into operation in 1885. It overlooks the Lubec Narrows between New Brunswick (Canada) and Maine (United States). The land you see in the background is Maine and the boats you can see are in Lubec harbour, Maine, though the lighthouse itself is in Canada.
Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada.
If you would like to read about my trip through the largest Bay of Fundy islands of Grand Manan, Deer Island and Compobello Island, take a look at the blog post about my Bay of Fundy Islands trip .
Found it hard to find compositions in these tank traps ....
Pentax K1 w DFA15-30/2.8 ISO100 f/9 @15mm
Single frame raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 5, colour graded in Color Efex Pro 5 finished off back in PhotoLab.
Souter piont. After a really wet day yesterday the next morning looked quite promising for a sunrise photo. I decided to go to Souter Point, south end of Jackies beach, Whitburn, to see what I could conjure up. I'm lacking inspiration at the moment, so I struggled with a composition. Using the beach peebles as a lead in I've focus stacked to get the cliff in the background sharper.
With military precision, there's a straight line in every direction. The ranks of graves command attention from visitors to an armed force's cemetery on Point Loma, overlooking the city of San Diego in California.
Point Loma, San Diego, California, USA.
May, 2019. © David Hill