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Birmingham tram No 33 passing Temple Point, a building at the end of Temple Row and Bull Street Birmingham.
Located about halfway between Santa Cruz and Half Moon Bay on California's central coast, the Pigeon Point Lighthouse is a stately 115-foot tower with a first order Fresnel lens in the lantern room. The lens is lit between 6 PM and 8 PM every November 15 for it's annual lighting celebration. The light station auxiliary buildings have been converted to hostels, housing up to 50 persons. Lighthouses are all about light so light has been added using Photoshop.
I'm experimenting with transferring some of my old film pictures to digital. This picture is from around 1994 or so. It is the resort that used to stand in High Point State Park in Sussex, NJ. I took this from the observation deck of the tower that is there. I remember it was a very humid day and I nearly had heat stroke climbing the stairs. This building was torn down sometime in the late 90's
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Yavapai provides perhaps the best panorama of the three points on this part of the south rim as it is the most northerly, and the closest to the Colorado River, allowing for unobstructed views up and down the gorge.
The river is just visible due north, at the end of Pipe Creek, immediately west of which is Plateau Point, reached by a branch of the Bright Angel Trail. In the other direction, the near ground is dominated by a long thin ridge running from Yaki Point, extending two thirds of the way to the river. Above and in the distance, peaks and points all the way to Desert View and Palisades of the Desert can be seen.
Three large canyons meet the Colorado on the North Rim. In the west, Trinity Creek flows from beneath Shiva Temple and joins the river near Hopi Point. Directly opposite Yavapai Point is Bright Angel Canyon, a long, straight drainage that provides the only maintained rim to river route on the north side of the Colorado. A few miles further east, Clear Creek forms a deep, twisting canyon that extends a long way northwards towards the distant Walhalla Plateau, above Cape Royal.
The Point Betsie Lighthouse just North of Frankfort and South of Sleeping Bear Dunes as she appears to humans in normal light.
A 6*6 point elk is called Royal. A 7*7 point elk is called Imperial. A 8*8 point elk is called Monarch.
The Point Perpendicular Lighthouse was established in 1899 to replace the inaccurately placed Cape St George Lighthouse.
The original 1860 lighthouse had been built in the wrong position due to inadequate supervision by the authorities of the day. It was not visible to the northern approach at Jervis Bay and failed to warn of offshore reefs.
Even though when the error was realised it was intended to show a light at Cape St George only as a temporary measure it was not until 1898, over 30 years later, that work began on its replacement on the northern side of the entrance to the bay.
This tower is believed to be a "first" in New South Wales. It is erected on a flat concrete base and is the first tower to be constructed of concrete blocks - made on the ground - lifted into position, then cement-rendered on both the inside and the outside.
This building technique eliminated the use of heavy scaffolding and shuttering which is necessary for the "concrete poured" construction of towers.
Most of the stores and materials for the new lighthouse were landed at Bindijine Wharf, constructed in 1898, on Honeymoon Bay inside the sheltered side of Jervis itself. They were then carted by house and cart to Point Perpendicular.
The original apparatus was vapourised kerosene, 100,000 cd with a range of 33 kilometres. The power was increased to 222,000 cd in 1909 and again to 316,000 in 1923. The light was converted to electric operation in 1964 with the installation of 2 diesel generators. When to light was finally replaced in 1993 the power was 1,200,000 cd.
The new "lattice" style tower is solar powered and the lightstation has been demanned.
There was much protest when the Department of Defence fenced off the area preventing public access to the lighthouse even though it had been agreed that access should continue. There have been mixed reports about what the current situation is though the restriction does seem to have been relaxed.
Also the keepers complex was put on the market at this time and it is also not known what the outcome has been.
The window above the main door is interesting as it displays the Waratah, the state flower of New South Wales, and the construction date of the tower.
The light was last lit by Ian Clifford on Saturday 17 November 1999 for the Seafarer's Festival Ball and to celebrate the centenary of Point Perpendicular.
ELEVATION: 93 metres
RANGE: 26 nautical miles (42 kilometres)
HEIGHT: 21.4 metres
Taken in July 1978.
Campers on Race Point Beach in Provincetown, Massachusetts, at the tip of Cape Cod.
Karachi www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjHgtanrCzs
Devil's Point, Located less than half a mile distance from Clifton Beach. It is an adventures place and if Arabian Sea is calm you may want to catch a good size fishes too.
Photo Credits: Khanana
Themed decorations of Yuletide Treats display at the plaza of Chinatown Point for Christmas 2020 Festival.
The Point Arena Lighthouse stands tall and proud on the Northern California Mendocino Coast.
This lighthouse was built in 1908 to replace an earlier version after the original brick lighthouse was damaged beyond repair in the Great San Francisco Earthquake.
Constructed of reinforced concrete, this lighthouse was built by a company that specialized in smokestacks, which is why it looks like one.
At 115 feet tall, the Point Arena Lighthouse is the tallest lighthouse on the U.S West Coast (tied with Pigeon Point)
Point Arena is the closest point to Hawaii on the U.S. mainland, which makes this as close as I will probably ever get to Hawaii.
I used a KITE to fly the camera.
Many shots of Cedar Point's latest coaster, Valravn. The ride hangs passangers over the edge then drops.
I addition to my growing collection of types cast after the Anglo-American system and point I have been forced to acquiring some matching spacing material too. So far so good. But, oh my God, the Anglo-American system with every space divided up to type point size (Em) is so far away from the standardized systematic autistic metric German Didot-Berthold punkt (point) and spacing system with all spaces cast on even punkt without decimals except for 1½ pkt.. Well, it’s never too late to learn new ways of thinking – so in the stick with the thicks, mids & thins.
BTW, the Anglo-American system with spacing material divisible to the Ems match the old German Leipziger system used in Denmark before the introduction of the metric punkt system in the last half of the 19th century. The old Leipziger system was as the Aanglo-American system based on the Em space - Geviert. The other spaces was as following: Halvgeviert (En), Dritel (thick or 3 to em), Slies (mid or 4 to em), Spatie (6 to em) and Haarspatie (8 to em). I do have a good amount of these in my collection although I have got used not to use them ….. maybe it’s time.
Possibly the"Head" Class Escort Maintenance Ship "HMS Dodman Point", 8,580 tons, launched 1945, at Devonport Dockyard during the Plymouth Navy Day, 08/62. Scanned photograph taken with a simple Brownie 127, hence dubious quality.
After having no idea of what to photograph for this week's theme, I had a burst of inspiration and came up with four potential pictures.
Three remain on my photostream, as I finally settled on my photographic journey beneath Felixstowe Pier, on a freezing grey day........
My 'Point' vanishes into the cold, grey North Sea....!
CORSEWALL LIGHTHOUSE IS LOCATED ON CORSEWALL POINT ON THE ROCKY NORTH COAST OF THE RHINS OF GALLOWAY, THE CATEGORY A-LISTED CORSEWALL LIGHTHOUSE LIES 9 MILES (14.5 KM) NORTH NORTHWEST OF STRANRAER, PROVIDING A BEACON FOR SHIPS APPROACHING THE MOUTH OF LOCH RYAN.
BUILT BETWEEN 1815-17 BY THE NOTED ENGINEER ROBERT STEVENSON (1772 - 1850) ON THE INSTRUCTIONS OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSE BOARD, ITS WHITE-PAINTED MASONRY TOWER RISES TO 34M (111 FEET) AND ITS LIGHT CAN BE SEEN AT A DISTANCE OF 22 MILES (35 KM). THE ASSOCIATED LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS' COTTAGES ARE OF THE USUAL STYLE FOR THE TIME, CONSTRUCTED OF WHITE-PAINTED ASHLAR WITH RAISED QUOINS.
THE FIRST KEEPER WAS REMOVED WHEN THE LIGHT STOPPED ROTATING AFTER HE HAD FALLEN ASLEEP ON DUTY. ORIGINALLY ILLUMINATED BY OIL LAMPS, THE LIGHTHOUSE WAS MODERNISED IN 1891 AND 1910. IN NOVEMBER 1970, SEVERAL PANES OF GLASS IN THE LAMP-ROOM WERE BROKEN WHEN THE SUPERSONIC AIRLINER CONCORDE PASSED BY ON TEST FLIGHT.
THE LIGHTHOUSE WAS AUTOMATED IN 1994 AND IS NOW REMOTELY MONITORED FROM EDINBURGH. THE FORMER KEEPERS' COTTAGES HAVE BEEN SOLD BY THE BOARD AND NOW FORM THE CORSEWALL LIGHTHOUSE HOTEL.