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Taken from Fort Point (South End)
Fort Point National Historic Site defended San Francisco Bay from California's Gold Rush to World War II. Its brick masonry matches the Golden Gate Bridge.
From its vantage point overlooking the spectacular Golden Gate, Fort Point protected San Francisco harbor from Confederate & foreign attack during & after the U.S. Civil War. Its beautifully arched casemates display the art of the master brick mason from the Civil War period.
The fort was designed to mount 126 massive cannon. Rushed to completion at the beginning of the Civil War, Fort Point was first garrisoned in February of 1861 by Company I, 3rd U.S. Artillery Regiment. The fort was occupied throughout the Civil War, but the advent of faster, more powerful rifled cannon made brick forts such as Fort Point obsolete. In 1886 the troops were withdrawn, and the last cannon were removed about 1900. The fort was then used for storage and training purposes for many years.
Between 1933 and 1937 the fort was used as a base of operations for the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. During World War II, Fort Point was occupied by about 100 soldiers who manned searchlights and rapid-fire cannon mounted atop the fort as part of the protection of a submarine net strung across the entrance to the Bay.
Per the U.S. National Park Service, "Point Reyes is the windiest place on the Pacific Coast and the second foggiest place on the North American continent." The lighthouse was built in 1870 and taken out of service in 1975. It is now part of the National Park Service. Reaching the lighthouse requires a vigorous, hilly walk and then down 308 steps. Despite this, it is an extremely popular destination for locals and visitors.
My old point and shoot camera. A Canon PowerShot SD1400 IS
For Macro Mondays theme "Photographic Equipment"
In Explore Nov 24, 2024 #251
This is Marble Canyon Arizona, at a place called Buck Farm Point. This is the beginning of the Grand Canyon on the East Side.
Neist Point is a viewpoint on the most westerly point of Skye. Neist Point Lighthouse has been located there since 1909.
Neist Point is the most westerly point on the Duirinish peninsula on the Isle of Skye. It projects into The Minch and provides a walk and viewpoint.
Basalt at Neist Point is very similar to that at the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland. A steep path leads down from the road. Whales, dolphins, porpoises and basking shark can be seen from the point. Common seabirds include gannets, black guillemots, razorbills and European shags. Several rare plants, including saxifrages are found on the point.
Sunderland Point is a small village in the marshland to the south of Lancaster that lies on a windswept peninsula between the River Lune and Morecambe Bay. It was originally a port for cotton and other ships, but its use declined as other nearby ports opened up.
Rocky Point at the Sue-Meg State Park near Trinidad, CA is well-named, with the Pacific Ocean haze and fog playing its part on this day, October, 2024. My wife thought this was a black-and-white, but it was shot in color.
Last weekend in North Devon, This is the path that follows the cliff edge around to the stunning baggy point , The path on the left takes you down to the rocks but with big surf hitting the rocks not a very good idea to go down there. Sadly we did not get all the way around as time was against us .
Many thanks for taking my previous image into explore much appreciated all your kind faves and comments .
Two years ago in early November I bought my current and first DSLR camera. I had not done any night shooting prior to my coming to the annual lighting of the Pigeon Point Lighthouse's Fresnel Lens. I was a nervous wreck trying to get set up, and a fellow photographer even attempted to sabotage me by telling me to do things that made my shots worse.
I came away that evening with a decent shot, but because I used a high ISO a very grainy shot. Well, it's been two years and they re-lit the lens tonight and I was able to try getting that shot one more time.
I met some wonderful people and got to hang with my friend Paul and even saw another flickr contact I haven't seen in a while.
It was a fantastic evening!
Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah.
Bryce Canyon National Park, a sprawling reserve in southern Utah, is known for its crimson-colored hoodoos, or spire-shaped rock formations. The park’s main road leads past the expansive Bryce Amphitheater, a hoodoo-filled depression lying below the Rim Trail hiking path. It has overlooks at Sunrise Point, Sunset Point, Inspiration Point and Bryce Point. Prime viewing times are around sunup and sundown.
[aus der Wikipedia]:
Der Zabriskie Point ist ein Aussichtspunkt im Gebiet des Gebirgszugs der Amargosa Range im Death-Valley-Nationalpark, der für seine bizarren Erosionslandschaften um den ehemaligen Lake Manly bekannt ist. Er wurde zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts nach Christian Brevoort Zabriskie aus Wyoming benannt, dem Vizepräsidenten und Geschäftsführer der Pacific Coast Borax Company, die mit dem Boraxabbau in dem Gebiet beauftragt war. Die Gesteinsformationen, auf die man von diesem Punkt sieht, sind die Sedimente des ehemaligen Furnace Creek Lake, der vor fünf Millionen Jahren ausgetrocknet ist.
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[from Wikipedia]:
Zabriskie Point is a part of the Amargosa Range located east of Death Valley in Death Valley National Park in California, United States, noted for its erosional landscape. It is composed of sediments from Furnace Creek Lake, which dried up 5 million years ago—long before Death Valley came into existence.
Located between Dead Horse Point and Island in the Sky, Marlboro Point looks out on two joined rock prominences and Shafer Canyon, with the Needles District of Canyonlands and Abajo Mountains off in the distance. The sunlit rock is mostly Wingate sandstone, deposited as massive sand dunes around 200 million years ago.
The view from Marlboro point doesn't pick up the warmest light at sunset due to a fairly close canyon rim to the west (right), but does look lovely in the golden hour light, and after sunset (or at sunrise) when clouds light up in warm colors. A storm had moved off in the early afternoon, and by sunset the sky rapidly cleared, so this was the best light I got.
The origin of the name of the point is sketchy- it doesn't appear on any official USGS documents nor is it mentioned in any of the place name sources I found. A photo in a Smithsonian web page suggests this is where the original cigarette ad was filmed, but I've found no support for that (and spent too much time looking at commercials to evaluate the claim). My guess is that someone thought this resembled "Marlboro country" and named it accordingly.
Nash Point lighthouses, the 'high light' is shown near right, the foghorn building centre-left with the remains of the 'low light' behind it. The extensive complex also includes keeper accommodations and early radio facilities. Some of the buildings are now holiday lets and weddings are hosted here.
Back when you could still get this view on North Canal. If you try to get this angle in 2025, you'll be very disappointed.
July 15, 1999.
A night hike led me to this view of the sandstone formations at Zabriskie Point in Death Valley National Park. In the gulch the eroded ground was very hard as if packed by a steam roller. The mounds of sandstone are off limits to hiking. So with respect to the land, I snapped some panoramas from the gulch. The moon wasn't due out for another 2.5 to 3 hours, and the wind was picking up. It was getting colder and I was getting hungry.
A 5 shot panorama of the foreground with a 12mm ultra wide lens, and 10 shot panorama of the night sky shot at 28mm (DX) lens. The sky was shot at Mojave National Preserve in April 2017. The main foreground was shot in December 2015. Edited in Lightroom, auto stitched in Microsoft ICE, and layered in Corel Paintshop.
On a clear night in Death Valley a lot of stars appear after twilight. Even in Dec when most of the Milky Way is below the horizon, it's sill visible going across the sky.
Here's a link to my Death Valley Video:
Thanks for viewing.
An outcropping along the Pt. Cabrillo Headlands, CA that I have coined "Saddlehorn Point", with the saddlehorn covered in ice plant, October, 2024. What a cool place.
Tenby Point on a cloudy afternoon. This was taken early afternoon which I am finding a good time for contrasty Black and white conversion. It was humid and things were building up to thunderstorms later in the afternoon. I was using a 6 stop ND filter to get a longer exposure and smooth out the water.
...Fluchtpunkt, vanishing point
Noch zwei Monate sind es bis zum Beginn meiner Fotoausstellung (Natur und Menschenwerk).
Immer wieder bin ich auf der Suche nach Motiven, bei denen Natur verändert, verdrängt, kultiviert wird... zurück schlägt oder vereinnahmt.
In diesem Bild scheint es, als ob die Mauer mit den Fichten ein stillschweigendes Abkommen über eine friedliche Koexistenz geschlossen habe...
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This is a two shot hdr panorama of Mt. Borah (12,662 ft., 3859 m), Idaho's highest peak. The line at the base of the range is a scarp or scar which occurred along a major fault, 26 miles long and 7 miles deep. The most recent earthquake occurred on Oct.28, 1983 and was 7.3 on the Richter scale and was felt for over 500 miles.
As a result of this quake, Mount Borah rose 10 inches and the valley sunk 9 feet! New springs and craters or "sand boils" erupted in the valley resulting in the largest deluge of water ever recorded after an earthquake in the United States, some 400 billion gallons of water, gushed forth!
View large - 'High Point' on Black
View the Entire - Idaho Set
View my - Most Interesting according to Flickr