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In December, Autumn is finally over, and the Winter begins to take it's hold. The cold Westerly winds gather moisture as they blow across Lake Michigan, then begin to cover the state in a blanket of white. Here, along the shores of Lake Michigan, Winter unleashes it's deep freeze on the sands of Pyramid Point. A small beam of light breaks though the clouds, and slowly drifts across Lake Michigan.
After driving to the Sleeping Bear Dunes, I spent the night camping in the Platte River Campground. Luckily, I was able to get a campsite. Snow squalls which passed throughout the day created beautiful hiking conditions.
Explore: 12/6/2009
Been dying to see this place, and on my way back to Los Angeles from Santa Cruz, I made a stop and couldn't believe how beautiful it was. It has a very unique environment, which makes it thrive with life and one of the only places in California with water as blue as it is.
Hoe point sunset, Praa sands, Cornwall. Photo Kevin Keatley, Camera Nikon D800, 70-200@200, F2.8, 1/160 sec., ISO 500.
After we rested from the Wahweap Hoodoo hike, we decided to try and find the point that I had seen in so many photographs of Lake Powell. We stopped in at the Big Water BLM Contact Station located just across the highway from Big Water and they knew immediately where I was describing. They even had a copy of a map and directions! I highly recommend stopping in there before you head out into The Grand Staircase or Glen Canyon Recreation Area.
The information specialist told us not to make too many stops because we would just have time to get to Alstrom Point before sunset.
It was a long drive and some of the roads were seldom travelled. They had rain earlier in the week so I was glad we had an all wheel drive small crossover rental car. As we approached the point, we found a small cleared area and it looked like the road continued up a small cliff. I now know that it's a mile hike from the cliff to the photography sites on the point.
I grabbed my camera bag and monopod and took off up the road over the small cliff and headed for the point. After walking for about 5 minutes, I was surprised to see other photographers had driven all the way out to the point.
We were well into the golden hour as I was walking and as the sun was nearing the horizon, I was picking up the pace. About one half way to the point the land began to slope down to the canyon and I could finally see parts of the lake. I could see the shadow from th near shore jutting out across the lake and so I started to trot.
I got to the cliff edge just as the shadow reached across the entire lake, ruining the shot. I was so upset. But then I noticed that the area in the shadow had taken on a pleasant, warm glow. I set the camera up and found that I had plenty of light and the trial shots looked great. By now the shadow had started to creep up Navajo Mountain on the eastern horizon so I decided to wait for the post sunset glow.
I'm glad I did. Clouds started to stream in from the west and I had to remind myself to stop staring in disbelief at what was unfolding in front of me and take the photographs.
This is my favorite wide angle of the set.
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North Point Park is an 8.5-acre (34,000 m2) park located on the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts, created as mitigation for the taking of planned parkland for the construction of the Big Dig. The park opened in December 2007. It is part of the "lost half mile" of the Charles River, between the 1910 Charles River Dam, now the site of the Museum of Science and the new Charles River Dam completed in 1978. The park opening was delayed by several years on account of a number of logistical and bureaucratic issues, but its design, including small islands, bridges and kayaking canals, has been characterized as "grand" and "ambitious" by the local press. The park designers were Carr Lynch & Sandell of Cambridge and Oehme van Sweden of Washington, DC. The park is adjacent to (but not part of) the ongoing NorthPoint real estate development project. Just upstream of these three new parks is the Dr. Paul Dudley White Charles River Bike Path in the Charles River
The U.S. Navy (USN)'s Montford Point-class expeditionary transfer dock (ESD) USNS Montford Point (T-ESD-1) assigned to the Military Sealift Command (MSC) is moored at Yokohama North Dock, Japan, June 1, 2019.
I have a few regrets in my life, and one of them is definitely my procrastination of my attempt to Half Dome while my legs were still fresh and young. My hope of conquering it is even more remote now especially the National Park Bureau has installed a permit lottery system to control the crowd. Yes, you could plummet to death if you don't hold on tight to the chain in the last section to the summit. Yet people are taking risks every year to scale up Half Dome just to claim the bragging right of "I did it". The only way for me to appreciate such an iconic landmark now is to drive up to Glacier Point and view it from there. Regretfully, this is the closest I could get. This photo is a pano-stitch of three shots taken with my Sigma DP2s.
I remember our drafting subject during high school. Had a hard time at first, then enjoyed it later. My favorite part was perspective drawing, where you get to see your drawing in a more realistic approach (having a reference/vanishing point).
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Taken at Odaiba Bridge Photowalk
All pencilpoints pointing to one point!
The pencils aren´t shapened on purpose, so they don´t really have a point.
But all the pencilpoints together make a new not really excisting point... a centerpoint!
Used on the webiste of Arealis, with permission.
This picture made it into explore on sunday Aug. 5.
Highest ranking: #51
Point Pleasant, OH (Clermont County)
Point Pleasant was platted in 1813. A post office called Point Pleasant that was established in 1826 remained in operation until 1983. By 1833, Point Pleasant had about 130 inhabitants. The Ohio River flood of 1937 inundated the community.
Point Pleasant was the birthplace of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant. The one-story cottage where he was born was taken by barge on a tour across the country, then by rail to Columbus, Ohio, where it was displayed at the Ohio State Fairgrounds. It was returned to Point Pleasant in 1936, where it has been restored with period furniture and opened to tours. (1)
References (1) Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Pleasant,_Ohio
Montauk Point Lighthouse was the first lighthouse on Long Island and was commissioned by George Washington in 1795. It recently became a National Historic Site. The Keeper's house (the brown building in front) is a mini-museum with a lot of history about the various keepers going back to the earliest days.
This is the South Eastern part of a small peninsula in my neighborhood called the Point. Great place to jog, stroll, bike or to grill.
This was taken RAW, originally using portrait mode and processed in ViewNX using Vivid. Then used Photomatix to HDR with one file. HDR'd enough to just get the layers of the clouds to stand out and bring the trees and steps out of silhouette. Somehow, the dimensions got a little larger. This was not intended.
i) Shutter Speed: 1/250 sec
ii) Aperture: f/9
iii) ISO: 200
iv) Lens: Nikkor 18-200VR @ 82mm
v) Camera Mode: Aperture Priority
vi) Date Taken: 4/25/09