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Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park, California; late spring, sunrise; winter is probably the best season for this photo; also perhaps should have stood further to the right, so the peak is not lost in the shadow behind
Lunar New Year Fair at the plaza of Chinatown Point, Upper Cross Street for the Chinese New Year 2017 Festival celebrations.
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TodaysArt festival
Atrium, Den Haag 2013
Oneohtrix Point Never's richly complex audio landscapes demand attentive listening, but luckily give the listener no other choice than to be drawn in completely and experience the journey.A beautiful trip through intimate fields of sound filled with noise, synths, melodies, strange rhythms and beautiful vocal samples. Daniel Lopatin has proven himself a true craftsman in his field of ambient music by staying clear of the conventions and creating his own personal, very emotional sound. His new album 'R Plus Seven' will be released only a couple of days after his show at TodaysArt on Warp Records.
A view from court point depicting the hussle and bussle of Sylhet City life. Including Ali Amjad's Clock Tower, Keane Bridge over the river Surma, "The gateway to Sylhet" and the gates of Circuit House Park.
Point Lynas Lighthouse on a dull overcast day.
From Wikipedia, 'This unusual and distinctive lighthouse was designed by Jesse Hartley, engineer to the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board from 1824 to 1860, but with additions by G Lyster some twenty years later.
It is a castellated building comprising a two-storey dwelling surmounted by a square tower 11 metres (36 ft) high. The semicircular lantern is located at the base. The present lantern is 4.6 metres (15 ft) in diameter and dates from about 1874. The lantern has a cast-iron lower wall and rectangular glazing bars take the height to 3.7 metres (12 ft). The lantern is topped by a plain conical roof with a ball finial. The square tower above has a corbelled oriel window of the pilot's look-out.
The unusual arrangement of having the lantern at ground level with the look-out and telegraph room above is similar to the Great Orme Lighthouse, also built by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board. The telegraph station was established in 1879, and two new cottages were erected to accommodate extra staff. Point Lynas has now been taken over by Trinity House.
A Chance occulting optic was fitted in the light room in 1878. This is 1.4 metres (4 ft 7 in) in diameter and displays a light through 206 degrees. The fixed part of the optic consists of three sections, the central unit on the focal plane has a 0.25 metres (9.8 in) deep curved lens with bands of six prisms above and below it. The bottom unit is made up of six bands of reflective prisms, while the inclined top unit contains sixteen.
The lamp is 1000W with an intensity of 112,000 candela and is white, occulting every 10 seconds, with a range of: 20 nautical miles (40 km).'
Although it was cold and windy, the beautiful shoreline definitely had downplayed the weather effects.
Centre Point was built as speculative office space by property tycoon Harry Hyams, who had leased the site at £18,500 a year for 150 years. Hyams and Seifert engaged in negotiations with the London County Council over the height of the building, which was much taller than would normally be allowed and was highly controversial; eventually he was allowed to build 32 floors in return for providing a new road junction between St Giles Circus, Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road, which the LCC could not afford to build on its own. Hyams intended that the whole building be occupied by a single tenant.
On completion, the building remained empty for many years. With property prices rising and most business tenancies taken for set periods of 10 or 15 years, Hyams could afford to keep it empty and wait for his single tenant at the asking price of £1,250,000; he was challenged to allow tenants to rent single floors but consistently refused. The prominent nature of the building led to it becoming a symbol of greed in the property industry. Some campaigners demanded that the government of Edward Heath should intervene and take over the building, and at one point in June 1972 Peter Walker (then Secretary of State for the Environment) offered £5 million for the building. Eventually Hyams agreed to let the building by floors but the arrangements were stalled.
A more intriguing speculation was that the government was paying Hyams "a heavy but secret subsidy to keep it empty" for its own purposes. Various conspiracy theories circulated about what those purposes might be. One common theme was that since the building was 100% air-conditioned (a rarity in London at that time), and sited over Tottenham Court Road tube station and its deep tube lines, this would somehow make it useful to the government in the event of nuclear war.
Since July 1980, the building has been the headquarters of the Confederation of British Industry. In 1995 Centre Point became a Grade II listed building. Noted architecture critic Nikolaus Pevsner described Centre Point as "coarse in the extreme". In 2009, the building won the Concrete Society's Mature Structures Award.
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Needed something to brighten up my mothers day and the late afternoon clouds looked promising so I headed down to Picnic Point to shoot sunset. It wasnt as good as I hoped but I was glad there was some color and clouds.
Equipment:
Camera: Nikon D800e
Lens: Rokinon 14mm Ultra Wide-Angle f/2.8 IF ED UMC
Focal Length: 14mm
ISO Speed: 100
Aperture: f/8
Shutter: mixed
Tripod: Really Right Stuff TVC-33
Ball Head: Really Right Stuff BH-55 LR
Filter: none
Processing:
Lightroom 5.7 [color balance, sharpening, etc]
CS6 [composite: 2 exposures blended, luminosity masking]
The view from atop Dodger Point by the old fire lookout. This pano doesn't show the "in your face" that these mountains present from Dodger Point.
Point of Ayr lighthouse at Talacre beach ...
Point of Ayr gives its name to a lighthouse, built in 1776, though inactive since 1844. It stands on Talacre beach at the entrance to the River Dee estuary.
The lighthouse once displayed two lights. The main beam at 63 feet shone seaward towards Llandudno. A secondary beam shone up the River Dee towards the hamlet of Dawpool in Cheshire on the English side of the estuary.
Whilst in service the lighthouse was painted with red and white stripes and had a red lantern housing.
Treacherous boulders, slippery with seaweed form a rocky beach extending 1km around the headland at Copt Point in Folkestone. This rocky and challenging terrain is the result of the eroding cliff face. The area has become rich in a wide range of brachiopods, bivalves and gastropods. Crinoids and belemnites are also commonly found. These fossils, unearthed from the fragile crumbling cliffs date back to the Cretaceous era (110-80 million years ago) and draw many visitors. This rocky shoreline is where I took the photos used in this HDR image.
HDR stands for High Dynamic Range.
It’s a term used to describe a way to ‘digitally develop’ your photos using the tonal information contained in multiple exposures of the same shot. Combining a normal shot with a slightly underexposed shot and a slightly overexposed shot ensure that you have a good amount of detail in both the shadows and the highlights. A little creative post processing using photoshop can enhance the image and add some atmosphere.
Beer cans stacked in the warehouse at the Stevens Point Brewery, Stevens Point, Wisconsin
www.tobp.com/review/brewery.asp?b=320
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevens_Point_Brewery
From Wikipedia:
Stevens Point Brewery is a regional American brewery located in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. The company claims that its Point Special beer was one of the first lager beers to be produced in America.[citation needed] The brewery is also known as the fifth-oldest privately-owned brewery in the nation.[1]
Sales volume for the company's Point beer brands was about 40,000 barrels in 2007 which is the third-largest craft brewer in the state behind Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company, a subsidiary of MillerCoors LLC, with sales of 465,000 barrels, and New Glarus Brewing Company, with sales of 65,000 barrels.[2]
My uncle and I went down to Tampa Florida to watch some of the Yankees spring training. While Jeeter was batting the slew of photographers raced to get behind him so that they could get those money making shots. I shot this group of photographers from my seat in section 213 Steinbrenner field. I thought it was really funny how this group to the left of home plate was shooting Canon and another group on the right was shooting Nikon. Guess even sports photographers have their own clicks (pun intended).
Most of the photos from the two games that I got to see were shot after dark and at very high ISO. This was shot handheld at 270mm f5.6. I shot this in RAW and converted to JPEG in camera while at the game and then cropped some guys feet out with aperture after I got back to Kentucky. Not bad for 25,600 ISO. I used the in camera Low noise reduction when converting to JPG with nikon RAW conversion in camera. I had never used this feature before but the in camera RAW conversion is actually pretty useful. I made the color, sharpening,noise reduction, and contrast adjustments all while sitting in my seat at the game. Pretty sweet!
I know what you're thinking.
No - I REALLY do.
You obviously know that this is the staircase inside of the monument at High Point, NJ (the one that looks like the Washington Monument).
OK - so what YOU are thinking right now is that, when you were a kid, you climbed all of these stairs and spit your gum out over the edge and it landed right where that man with the camera is lying on the floor taking this photo.
So, to all of you, I would just like to say, "Thanks for really making the time I spent taking this photo EXTRA special!"
The truely funny photo would not be the one of me lying on that filthy floor with my camera. No - it would be the one of the parents grabbing their children by the hand and leading them away from me as far and as fast as they could.
"No, Johnny, he's not dead, he's just had too much to drink. No, you can't poke him with a stick. No, you absolutely can NOT touch him. No, I'm sure that is not his camera - he probably stole it somewhere. We'll call the police when we get outside. Now, hurry!"
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Sundown over the Point Cabrillo Lighthouse on the Northern California Mendocino coast.
Its Third Order Fresnel lens was first lit in 1909, and has served as an aid to mariners ever since. According to the nautical charts, it casts its beam twenty-two miles out to sea six times a minute.
I used a KITE to fly the camera.