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Last night's sunset sky at Penhale point near Holywell bay, sadly very little sign of the sun because of a thick cloud covering, hence the black and white on this long exposure shot to bring out the details. It was good to get out with the camera and meet up with Martin, nice also to go somewhere different.
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Blue-liveried William Bagnall 'Austerity' 0-6-0 saddle tank '75167' (Works No.2755 built in 1944) in the company of maroon Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns 'Austerity' 0-6-0 saddle tank '71515' (Works No.7169 built in 1944) on shed at Johnson's (Chopwell) Ltd, Swalwell Disposal Point basking in the evening sunshine on 1st September 1971. '71515' had been the working locomotive, shunting in the gloom earlier in the day.
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If you're driving near the airport in Toronto, this is the kind of view you get on an almost daily basis.
As in X marks the spot of our new location...on our GPS!
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The Point Bonita lighthouse sits on the tip of Marin County near the entrance to the Golden Gate Bridge
So last Thursday, I began to get the itch to try for another Big Sur Pfeiffer Arch sunset shot, and by Saturday, I had made arrangements for a quick overnight trip up the coast. On Saturday morning, I turned on the audio version of Billy Crystal's "Still Foolin Em" and set off for the 320 mile trip up the coast. I knew that the national weather service was calling for mostly cloudy skies, but on the satellite, the clouds looked a bit broken and I thought I might get lucky with the sky above the arch. I arrived in Big Sur by mid afternoon, but the clouds had rolled in a bit too thick and I was bang out of luck in terms of getting any sunlight through the arch. I drove almost two hours back down South almost to Cambria to try to find some sun, but pretty much everything was socked in by that point. Feeling a bit down, I headed up to my motel in Monterey hoping for better luck that night. The moon actually came out after a 90 minute drive up to Pigeon Point and I had some decent luck shooting until the cops showed up. .
The next morning , I got up at 4:30 on a hunch that the same high clouds might hang around long enough to catch some of that early morning light. I arrived at 6 AM and was a bit nervous that the cops might return as the beach area didn't open to the public unti 8 AM, but at 6:30, I threw caution to the wind and set up the tripod as the sky was just beginning to light up. For the next 25 minutes or show, I fired off dozens of frames as the sky caught fire.
It was very cathartic for me to be able to finally get an early morning shot of this lighthouse after getting shut out over the Summer by fog. The clouds disappeared shortly after I shot the lighthouse, and there was quite a crowd down at the arch by the time sunset rolled around. I shot wider this year with the 14-24 and the fisheye and I hope to get some of those shots up in the next couple of weeks.
Then it was six hours back home. Definitely worth the drive last year, and definitely worth the drive again this year. I'm expecting it will definitely be worth the drive next year as well.
Pigeon Point Light Station or Pigeon Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse built in 1871 to guide ships on the Pacific coast of California. It is the tallest lighthouse on the West Coast of the United States. It is still an active Coast Guard aid to navigation. Pigeon Point Light Station is located on the coastal highway, 5 miles south of Pescadero, California, between Santa Cruz and San Francisco. The 115-foot, white masonry tower, resembles the typical New England structure. Because of its location and ready access from the main highway, Pigeon Point entertains a large number of public visitors.
The lighthouse at Point Atkinson was built in 1914 and replaced the original wooden structure, it marks one side of the entrance to English Bay, Vancouver, BC
Things don't always work out the way we want them to do. The important thing, is simply that we do the best we can with what we've got. Cheers.
A little info:
The current Thomas Point light is arguably the most widely recognized lighthouse in Maryland and is the only screw-pile light on the Chesapeake Bay still in its original location. (The remaining 3 have been moved to museum settings.) It is the third light to mark Thomas point shoal.
Additional information can be found at www.thomaspointlighthouse.org
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Another shot of Tom Waits performing at Edinburgh Playhouse in July of last year as part of his 'Glitter and Doom' tour..
As I have previously mentioned, I came home from a weekend away to find an invitation to photograph this gig for The Scotsman...but only read the e-mail about 35 minutes before I needed to be there. It was all very exciting. :-)
My invitation came from Alex Hewitt at The Scotsman (to whom my thanks have so often been due).
You can see the shot The Scotsman published here:
You can see my other posted pics from this gig in my Tom Waits set.
There is 1.5 km walk up on the foresty road to the Lighthouse.
Seal Rocks, NSW
Sugarloaf Point Lighthouse also known as Seal Rocks Lighthouse is an active light tower that has been operating since December 1875. It was built to stand guard over the rugged and pointy Seal Rocks and Sawtooth Rocks as these were unsuitable to build a lighthouse on. The elegant light tower is one of only two light towers in Australia with an external stairway, and has been automated by electricity since 1987.
Most of our group headed home on this afternoon, but Harry and I stayed an extra day, so we did a bushwalk out to Muttonbird Point (pictured here) with its nesting masked boobies, then onto Rocky Run and back via Intermediate Hill. Lord Howe Island.
The sea cave seen in the bottom centre, goes all the way through - we saw waves coming out.
A polarising filter was used here.
I went to LHI as part of a fundraising trip for the Climate Council of Australia:
The Whitefish Point Light, a lighthouse in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, is the oldest operating light on Lake Superior. It is arguably the most important light on Lake Superior. All vessels entering and leaving Lake Superior must pass the light
Gull Point is a small bump of land along Yellowstone Lake's western shore. It's a lovely spot for a picnic or a walk.
I haven't been able to identify these golden grasses growing there, any information about them would be appreciated.