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Western PA
It's not that I like getting up before dawn to take photos. It's that I haven't gone to bed yet, so I drive into the countryside to catch the magnificent dawn light (& sometimes fog) before I go to sleep.
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In Explore: 4/12/17
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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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York Station, North Yorkshire, England
It is true that the best camera you have is the one you have on you. Although I carry my Ricoh GRIII with me all the times a daily camera, often it is easy to get a photo with the camera on your phone and this was one.
I didn't have long to take it before the platform become busy or I lost the long light trails from the sun, timing was just right.
The light trails is my favourite part of the photo, often at certain times of the day or even year depending how low the sun is, it can shine perfectly at either end of the Station shed. When it shines through the glass and gaps it creates these lines which make for an interesting photo.
Hope you are having a great week so far!
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.
It is with much excitement that I invite you to visit my eZine and read an interview I did with Cole Thompson. <-- Click here!
Originally a black & white 35mm image, I used photoshop for the toned effect.
btw, those streaks of light are nothing to do with photoshop, just gifts from nature :)
Pine needles capturing rain drops capturing the light in this image SOOC. The sun was backlighting the needles against the shaded trunk.
This is a first-round effort with light painting. I saw this technique in Digital Camera World and knew immediately I had to try it!
Here's what I had to do for this experiment. I put a dark towel on the window in our bathroom, then taped the cracks of the door so absolutely no light came into the room.
Then, I used a small spot flashlight with the cover off (so the bulb was exposed) and at ISO 100 and various shutter speeds depending on the size of each area (to avoid light burnout), I moved the flashlight around the object in the dark, while the camera was exposing the photo.
Afterward, each "layer" was added to Photoshop and put to "screen". I also did some spot erasing to areas that were washing out the light trails. The whole effort is a bit "HDR-ish".
-Added to the Cream of the Crop pool as most favorited.
One of the first pictures taken with The Fujifilm X-t30.
I'm really fallen for that camera system and the way it makes me work with it.
I'm quite happy about the resault of this photo. I'm fairly new at the Street photography genere.
Hope you like it
- Enjoy and have a good one !