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.556 ammunition lies stacked in preparation for use for combat marksmanship training during Exercise Fuji Samurai, Jan. 6, on the Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan. Exercise Fuji Samurai is held during the month of January for approximately two weeks to provide an opportunity for Marines to sharpen their combat skills through countless live fire drills, practical application of offensive tactics and exposure to the chill and challenge of the winter weather at the foot of Mt. Fuji. The combat marksmanship course ensures Marines are able to confidently and effectively carry and perform combat style shooting.
Photo by Cpl. Janessa Pon.
South Stack, near Holyhead on the Isle of Anglesey. Lovely watching the sun go down. Quite interesting that often after the sun has disappeared below the horizon you see a more dramatic cloudscape yet everyone seems to go home once the sun has set!
South Stack Lighthouse
The South Stack Lighthouse has warned passing ships of the treacherous rocks below since its completion in 1809. The 28 m (91 ft) lighthouse was designed by Daniel Alexander and the main light is visible to passing vessels for 28 miles, and was designed to allow safe passage for ships on the treacherous Dublin - Holyhead - Liverpool sea route. It provides the first beacon along the northern coast of Anglesey for east-bound ships. It is followed by lighthouses, fog horns and other markers at North Stack, Holyhead breakwater, The Skerries, the Mice and at the north-east tip of the island Trwyn-Du. The lighthouse is operated remotely by Trinity House.It has been visited by the team at Most Haunted.
Visitors can climb to the top of the lighthouse and tour the engine room and exhibition area. The lighthouse is open seasonally.
Access
Until 1828 when an iron suspension bridge was built, the only means of crossing the deep water channel on to the island was in a basket which was suspended on a hemp cable. The suspension bridge was replaced in 1964, but by 1983 the bridge had to be closed to the public, due to safety reasons. A new aluminium bridge was built and the lighthouse was reopened for public visits in 1997. Thousands of people flock to the lighthouse every year, thanks to the continued public transport service from Holyhead's town centre.
There are over 400 stone steps down to the footbridge (and not, as local legend suggests, 365), and the descent and ascent provide an opportunity to see some of the 4,000 nesting birds that line the cliffs during the breeding season. The cliffs are part of the RSPB South Stack Cliffs bird reserve, based at Ellin's Tower.
The Anglesey Coastal Path passes South Stack. The Cybi Circular Walk includes South Stack. The short walk is 4 miles long and takes around 2 hours to complete. Travelling from the Breakwater Country Park, other sites along the way are the North Stack Fog Signal station, Caer y Tŵr, Holyhead Mountain and Tŷ Mawr Hut Circles.
Thin oatmeal buttermilk pancakes (crepes) filled with cottage cheese, folded in envelopes, served with homemade maple-pecan granola. I ate this stack, reverent, savouring each bite. Oh pancakes. How I love them! No matter what kind of recipe I use, they make every morning so much better!
When you do a lot of travel photography, you arrive at the places you arrive when you arrive at them. And it may not be the optimal time to photograph the subject you are standing in front of, but you take what you can get because it is likely to be the only time you pass before said subject.
The Londrangar Sea Stacks, on the south side of the Snaefellsnes peninsula, were such a subject. We were mostly shooting into the sun by the time we arrived and while this clearly was an amazing vantage point, on the edge of the Atlantic, I could only imagine it at sunrise or sunset. And yet that is what I will have to make do with until I return to Snaefellsnes one spring day with something less than 21 hours of daylight. It will have to do...
This is a sweep panorama photo of the Imperial Oil Refinery in the chemical valley of Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.
Photographed using a Sony NEX 5 using a Nikkor 85mm f/2 rangefinder lens.
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Stack of 14 images of acorn.
I picked this acorn up weeks ago walking to the bus in Aldgate, but forgot about it. Its dried to this finish, and the textures on the cup appealed to me - hence the macro.
Tamron 90mm on 25mm extension tube, 1/100s @ f8, sidelit flash at 1/16 power. Modified by CombineZP
Been dragging my feet on editing some of these because the negatives are streaky and will take a while to fix given that my computer is old and slow.
Here is one such image. Instead of obsessing over removing every single fleck of dust, I just did a "good enough" pass. So there may still be some defects here.
Hasselblad 500 C/M
Ilford PanF Plus 50
This water was ice cold but I got so into what I was doing that I was calf deep in it for well over an hour.
Somebody must have spent several hours building this incredible rock tower in the middle of the Poudre River last weekend. I didn't expect to see something like this, and didn't have the equipment with me to do it justice. By the time I came back at the end of the day, it was gone. Cache La Poudre Canyon, Northern Colorado. September 2008.
ring samples I made for a stackable rings class I'll be doing at the Studio at Rush Creek in Maple Grove, MN
South Stack Lighthouse, Anglesey.
South Stack is set in a spectacular location to the north-west of Holyhead. The lighthouse acts as a waymark for coastal traffic and a landmark and orientation light for vessels crossing the Irish Sea to and from the ports of Holyhead and Dun Laoghaire.
History of the lighthouse
In 1645 when lighthouses were privately owned, King Charles II was petitioned for a patent to build a lighthouse on South Stack. The request was refused. However, 143 years after the original petition, Trinity House leased South Stack island and construction of the lighthouse commenced. On 9 February 1809, the station's oil lamps, designed by Daniel Alexander at a cost of £12,000, were first lit. In 1828 an iron suspension bridge was built to replace the rope catwalk that originally linked the lighthouse to the bottom of the 400 steps down the cliff face.
This was one of the many changes that have taken place at South Stack since 1809. The lights regularly became more efficient and in 1938 electric power replaced the oil that powered the lamps. In 1964 the iron bridge was taken down and a new one of aluminium was put up in its place.
The lighthouse was automated in 1984, and the keepers withdrawn. Today, the lighthouse is monitored and controlled by computer link from Trinity House Operations Centre in Harwich, Essex.