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Arrowsic Island, Maine.
Doubling Point Light is a lighthouse on the Kennebec River in Arrowsic, Maine. It was established in 1898, fifteen years after the founding of the Bath Iron Works, a major shipbuilder, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) upriver. It was part of a major upgrade of the river's lights — the Doubling Point Light and the separate Range Lights on the point, Perkins Island Light, and Squirrel Point Light were all built at the same time. The light was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Doubling Point Light Station on January 21, 1988. It remains an active aid to navigation.
The Doubling Point Light is located on the lower Kennebec River, at a point where the normally south-flowing river makes a sharp turn to the east, followed by a turn back to the south. The light is set at the inside corner of the first of these turns, on the west side of Arrowsic Island, roughly opposite the mouth of Winnegance Creek. The light station includes a tower, keeper's house, shed, and oil house. The tower is an octagonal wood-frame structure, finished in wooden shingles, with an iron walkway around the lantern chamber. It is accessed via a three-span footbridge.
Near the tower is the keeper's house, an L-shaped 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure with hip-roofed porches. Also nearby are the gable-roofed tool shed, built in 1898, and the small brick oilhouse, added in 1906.
The city of Bath, located north (upriver) from this point, had been a major shipbuilding port for much of the 19th century, and the river was a major transportation artery all the way to Augusta. In 1892 the river below Bath was identified by the United States Lighthouse Board as needing improved navigational aids, and a series of improvements were authorized. Funding was made available by Congress in 1895, and Doubling Point Light was built in 1898, along with the keeper's house and shed. The tower did not originally stand at its present location, to which it was moved in 1899, and the keeper's house was moved closer to the tower in 1901. The tower's original lens was a fifth-order Fresnel lens; it was automated in 1988. (Wikipedia.)
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Model: Mary
Photo/Postproduction/Styling/Mood: Me
Location: Torre Paola - Sabaudia (LT)
Date: July 2009
Happy Sliders Sunday!
Here is more Abstract Reality from my living room.
One of my living room windows sometimes makes beautiful images like this
on my living room floor. The framing is created by the window, not me.
I call the elements "light bubbles." I am simply the lucky observer.
However, I did a lot of siding before uploading. My goal was just to show you,
as well as I could, what my window provided, and what my eyes saw.
Location: My garden apartment's living room, Riehen BS Switzerland.
In my album: Dan's Abstract Reality.
while I was working in hall barn industrial estate Isleham, Cambridgeshire, I saw these two men painting this wall, just outside the shadow cast by another building.
It is with much excitement that I invite you to visit my eZine and read an interview I did with Cole Thompson. <-- Click here!
Day out with Pauls Pix 53 … first stop the beach at Pett Level, then a wander around Winchelsea then for a woodland scrabble at Pett. I managed to fill a 16GB card, so it might take me a while to sort them out :)) It was a good day, dry with sunshine and not that cold.
Pine needles capturing rain drops capturing the light in this image SOOC. The sun was backlighting the needles against the shaded trunk.
I took this shot when I was on the photography trip in Finish Archipelago National Park near the Turku city. And this is probably one of my first photos of that kind of light so, if you have some advices please feel free to tell me... If you would like to see the picture of the different place which I took next morning you can see it here: www.flickr.com/photos/38628972@N05/5764395639/in/photostream
There are some really beautiful lichens in the Finland: www.flickr.com/photos/38628972@N05/5768504303/in/photostr...
It was taken with CanonEOS40D camera and Tokina SD 11-16 F2.8 (IF) DX lens.
Please have a view of full size...
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Thanks... ;)