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Another shot from earlier in the week at New Brighton beach sea defences. If you have a look at the earlier posting you can see how much the tide rose in the 3 minutes between takes.
This was taken at Rye Beach. I shot this at 30 seconds using the Lee ND 10 (big Stopper).
Converted in PS and in channel mixer I duplicated Agfa black and white film.
I have found the Big Stopper to be a better ND filter than the B&W ND110 I was using. No color cast like the B&W and the colors really pop with it.
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Process work for Stone Breaker. This is a small amount of the work I do outside creating the work digitally. Hundreds of ideas don't see the light of day.
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Panoramic scene taken with the iPhone.
Almost all of the images in this set are taken on the right side of the image and look out to the left over the breakers to Lake Michigan.
At this area of coast, there is a beach along the lake for most of the distance between here and downtown Chicago. The beaches are bordered by a bike and running path. Lake Shore Drive runs parallel to the paths. This particular section does not have a beach, so the paths run along the lake.
Have as good of a Monday as you can!
Montana de Oro State Park,
San Luis Obispo Co., California
Ever wonder how all that seaweed gets onto the shore?
Another angle of Teignmouth Pier on Christmas Eve morning. The waves were breaking really well and this is my favourite from this side of the pier.
This one has been processed slightly differently to my previous effort and as a result the whole scene is slightly brighter. Whether its more realistic or not is a matter of debate but I think I prefer it.
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Santarosa Metrostar
Location: Gil Puyat Ave cor FB Harrison St, Brgy 24, Zone 4, Pasay City
Apparently back in the day of wooden boats and real winters, I would accumulate along the Delaware river and destroy the boats. This is one of several ice breakers designed and built in the mid 1800's to create a safe harbor for the boats.
While I was waiting for the Rock Pipits to appear, I was able to capture these breakers near the Staffin slipway. The sea conditions were quite strange. There was very little wind and the sea was a flat calm but obviously there must have been a swell as these breakers were crashing on to the offshore rocks.
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Circuit Breaker (right) is an evolution of Ryan H's Phasor (left). Built for round 5 of the Starfighter Telephone game.
Advanced alien technology puts delicate mechanics on the outside. While this provides acute sub-wave sensitivity, Circuit Breaker scout ships must rely on their quick maneuverability provided by retractable retro-thrusters, in order to survive forays in hostile space.
Also because of advanced alien technology, Circuit Breaker ships have laser saw fangs instead of any ranged weapons or countermeasures.
I put the sigma 150-500 f5-6.3 on the Canon 5D Mark II and went out back yesterday. We are still sticking close to home even though the province is now in Phase 3 - hubby has day surgery on his back on Monday and they asked that we limit who we see just our household or if we have others here that they mask up even though we have had both shots each. I forget how heavy this lens is at times but, I love it nonetheless.
Hand held aperture priority at f6.3 ISO was 320 and I focused on the one cattail. I know, it's in the middle a no-no for the composition but I am a photography rule breaker. Edited in ON1 Photo Raw 2021 by adding the Kodachrome preset - it is one of my favourite ones as it reminds me of the colours one would get with Kodachrome film.
The Breakers is a Vanderbilt mansion located on Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, United States. The building became a National Historic Landmark in 1994 and is a contributing property to the Bellevue Avenue Historic District. It is owned and operated by the Preservation Society of Newport County and is open for visitation on a year-round basis.
The mansion was built as the Newport summer home of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, a member of the wealthy United States Vanderbilt family, in an architectural style based on the Italian Renaissance. It was designed by renowned architect Richard Morris Hunt with interior decoration by Jules Allard and Sons and Ogden Codman, Jr. The 70-room mansion has a gross area of 125,339 square feet (11,644.4 m2) and 62,482 square feet (5,804.8 m2) of living area on five floors, constructed between 1893 and 1895. The Ochre Point Avenue entrance is marked by sculpted iron gates, and the 30-foot-high (9.1 m) walkway gates are part of a 12-foot-high (3.7 m) limestone-and-iron fence that borders the property on all but the ocean side. The footprint of the house covers approximately 1 acre (4,000 m2) of the 14 acres (5.7 ha) estate on the cliffs overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. (Wikipedia)
I suppose you can find shops with their colourful beach balls in virtually any seaside town in this country. The one thing that shows it is in Norfolk, on England's East Coast, is the use of flints in the construction of the building next door. When I was researching the location for this caption I made a sad discovery. The next-door cafe, Breakers, actually closed its doors in October 2024 because the owner could no longer afford the escalating costs of gas and electricity. The business had simply become unviable.
The area that was to become West Palm Beach was settled in the late 1870s and 1880s by a few hundred settlers who called the vicinity "Lake Worth Country." These settlers were a diverse community from different parts of the United States and the world. They included founding families such at the Potters and the Lainharts, who would go on to become leading members of the business community in the fledgling city. The first white settlers in Palm Beach County lived around Lake Worth, then an enclosed freshwater lake, named for Colonel William Jenkins Worth, who had fought in the Second Seminole War in Florida in 1842. Most settlers engaged in the growing of tropical fruits and vegetables for shipment the north via Lake Worth and the Indian River. By 1890, the U.S. Census counted over 200 people settled along Lake Worth in the vicinity of what would become West Palm Beach. The area at this time also boasted a hotel, the "Cocoanut House", a church, and a post office. The city was platted by Henry Flagler as a community to house the servants working in the two grand hotels on the neighboring island of Palm Beach, across Lake Worth in 1893, coinciding with the arrival of the Florida East Coast railroad. Flagler paid two area settlers, Captain Porter and Louie Hillhouse, a combined sum of $45,000 for the original town site, stretching from Clear Lake to Lake Worth.
On November 5, 1894, 78 people met at the "Calaboose" (the first jail and police station located at Clematis St. and Poinsettia, now Dixie Hwy.) and passed the motion to incorporate the Town of West Palm Beach in what was then Dade County (now Miami-Dade County). This made West Palm Beach the first incorporated municipality in Dade County and in South Florida. The town council quickly addressed the building codes and the tents and shanties were replaced by brick, brick veneer, and stone buildings. The city grew steadily during the 1890s and the first two decades of the 20th century, most residents were engaged in the tourist industry and related services or winter vegetable market and tropical fruit trade. In 1909, Palm Beach County was formed by the Florida State Legislature and West Palm Beach became the county seat. In 1916, a new neo-classical courthouse was opened, which has been painstakingly restored back to its original condition, and is now used as the local history museum.
The city grew rapidly in the 1920s as part of the Florida land boom. The population of West Palm Beach quadrupled from 1920 to 1927, and all kinds of businesses and public services grew along with it. Many of the city's landmark structures and preserved neighborhoods were constructed during this period. Originally, Flagler intended for his Florida East Coast Railway to have its terminus in West Palm, but after the area experienced a deep freeze, he chose to extend the railroad to Miami instead.
The land boom was already faltering when city was devastated by the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane. The Depression years of the 1930s were a quiet time for the area, which saw slight population growth and property values lower than during the 1920s. The city only recovered with the onset of World War II, which saw the construction of Palm Beach Air Force Base, which brought thousands of military personnel to the city. The base was vital to the allied war effort, as it provided an excellent training facility and had unparalleled access to North Africa for a North American city. Also during World War II, German U-Boats sank dozens of merchant ships and oil tankers just off the coast of West Palm Beach. Nearby Palm Beach was under black out conditions to minimize night visibility to German U-boats.
The 1950s saw another boom in population, partly due to the return of many soldiers and airmen who had served in the vicinity during the war. Also, the advent of air conditioning encouraged growth, as year-round living in a tropical climate became more acceptable to northerners. West Palm Beach became the one of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas during the 1950s; the city's borders spread west of Military Trail and south to Lake Clarke Shores. However, many of the city's residents still lived within a narrow six-block wide strip from the south to north end. The neighborhoods were strictly segregated between White and African-American populations, a legacy that the city still struggles with today. The primary shopping district remained downtown, centered around Clematis Street.
In the 1960s, Palm Beach County's first enclosed shopping mall, the Palm Beach Mall, and an indoor arena were completed. These projects led to a brief revival for the city, but in the 1970s and 1980s crime continued to be a serious issue and suburban sprawl continued to drain resources and business away from the old downtown area. By the early 1990s there were very high vacancy rates downtown, and serious levels of urban blight.
Since the 1990s, developments such as CityPlace and the preservation and renovation of 1920s architecture in the nightlife hub of Clematis Street have seen a downtown resurgence in the entertainment and shopping district. The city has also placed emphasis on neighborhood development and revitalization, in historic districts such as Northwood, Flamingo Park, and El Cid. Some neighborhoods still struggle with blight and crime, as well as lowered property values caused by the Great Recession, which hit the region particularly hard. Since the recovery, multiple new developments have been completed. The Palm Beach Mall, located at the Interstate 95/Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard interchange became abandoned as downtown revitalized - the very mall that initiated the original abandonment of the downtown. The mall was then redeveloped into the Palm Beach Fashion Outlets in February 2014. A station for All Aboard Florida, a high speed passenger rail service serving Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Orlando, is under construction as of July 2015.
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September 21, 2019
Nauset Outer Beach
Cape Cod National Seashore
Orleans, Massachusetts - USA
Photo by brucetopher
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9 of 14 JC Raulston Arboretum images.
This is a closeup of a pink Day Breaker Rose at the JC Raulston Arboretum using the Nikkor Z 50mm f1.8 S lens.
The JC Raulston Arboretum is a public 10-acre arboretum and botanical garden that is part of the NC State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. It includes two visitor centers, waterfalls, dozens of creative nature art, and showcases over 6,000 exotic flowers and innovative plants!
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