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The light when autumn is here, creates long shadows early afternoon.
Camera: Rolleiflex T
Lens: Carl Zeiss 75mm f3.5 - at f16 1/250 - yellow filter
Film: Fomapan 400 at 200
Negative scan, R09 1/40 9min
Microlight aka Light-Sport Aircraft seen flying over the beach in San Felipe, Baja (Mexico). It's a two seater. If it has two seats, it's not called an ultralight. Two seat "ultralight" aircraft are classified as Light-Sport Aircraft from what I read about it. Also what's called a microlight is designed to carry no more than 2 people.
(Lit for photo with my headlamp)
"Fort Popham is a Civil War-era coastal defense fortification at the mouth of the Kennebec River in Phippsburg, Maine. It is located in sight of the short-lived Popham Colony and, like the colony, named for George Popham, the colony's leader. The site is preserved as Fort Popham State Historic Site.
Construction of Fort Popham was authorized in 1857 as part of the Third System of fortifications but did not begin until 1861. The fort was built from granite blocks quarried on nearby Fox and Dix Islands. It had a 30-foot (9 m)-high wall facing the mouth of the Kennebec River and was built in a crescent shape, measuring approximately 500 feet (150 m) in circumference.
During the closing months of the American Civil War, from October 1864 to July 1865, the fort was garrisoned by the 7th Unassigned Company of Maine Infantry. The 7th Company was commanded by Captain Augustin Thompson, who is best known as the inventor of Moxie soda.
Fort Popham was originally designed to mount 42 heavy guns, a mix of 10-inch and 15-inch Rodman guns, but construction was halted in 1869 with only two of the planned three tiers completed. In the late 19th century, Fort Popham's armament consisted of 36 Rodman guns and some 300-pounder (10-inch) and smaller Parrott rifles. One of the Rodman guns was donated to the town of Bowdoinham to remember its soldiers who died in the Civil War. The cannon is still there. A 100-pounder (6.4-inch) Parrott rifle sits near the fort grounds; it was listed as being at the fort in 1903. The back side of Fort Popham was built with a low moated curtain containing a central gate and 20 musket ports.
War experience showed that masonry forts were vulnerable to modern rifled guns. As a result, in 1869 construction at Fort Popham stopped before the fortification was completed. The fort was garrisoned again after additional work was performed during the Spanish–American War and World War I. In the 1890s Fort Popham received new facilities for a controlled minefield in the river at the fort as part of the Endicott program of improved fortifications." (Wikipedia)
"Fort Popham Lighthouse:
1900 – Fort Popham Beacon, Kennebec River, Maine.—A fixed red lens lantern light was established on October 19, 1899.
1903 – Fort Popham beacon, Kennebec River, Maine.—A bell-tower was built and a 1,000-pound fog-bell struck by machinery was established. The light was taken from the spindle and placed on the bell tower, and a footbridge and plank walk leading to the shore were built,
1909 – The balance of the appropriation for light-keepers’ dwellings, made by the acts of March 4, 1907, and May 27, 1908, was applied to the construction of dwellings at the following-named light-stations: Fort Popham, Me.
1910 – Funds applied toward the construction of a new dwelling.
1910 – Isolated oil houses were erected at the following-named stations during the fiscal year 1910 from the appropriation "Oil houses for light-stations:"
1925 – Leroy L. Myers, keeper of Fort Popham Lighthouse, Me., on September 27, while a strong ebb tide was running, rendered assistance to two men who were clinging to the bottom of their dory which had upset near the lighthouse.
Keepers: Llewellyn Oliver (at least 1900 – 1913), Leroy L. Myers (1913 – 1929), Alonzo Morong (1929 – 1935), Eugene W. Osgood (1935 – 1941).
A modern light is displayed from a spindle atop the fort today. " (lighthousefriends.com)
www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=1865
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Visited churches tonight for the Holy Thursday Visita Iglesia and took some candle shots. =)
Thank you for all your comments, visits, and faves! Will visit your streams later. Need to catch some sleep. =)
Uhm, yesterday's scenes look good. I don't clearly know how they are, 'cause I didn't watched them on my computer, but they look nice.
Today has been HORRIBLE: it was really, really hot and I was forced to eat in the sun because of a "family lunch". Omg, something to forget as soon as possible.
Tomorrow I'll probably go to Rome, because the hot weather today hasn't been enough. I don't know if I'll survive, but if I'll meet Woody Allen (the reason why I'm going there, so excited!!), I'll tell you. :D
On my way to one of my favorite spots to photograph sunsets I took advantage of the warm evening light to capture a few landscapes and some wildlife also.