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English Electric 1934 built Balloon Car 700 pulls out of outer loop at Fleetwood Ferry and into Pharos Street, before returning to North Pier on a Heritage Coastal Tour service.
10th September 2023
This is top of an old tree stump. I thought it looked curiously like one of those outer space shots of earth.
This serene coastal view from the Outer Richmond neighborhood of San Francisco captures the charm of residential life by the Pacific. Taken from the intersection of 48th Avenue and El Camino del Mar, the scene gently slopes toward the ocean, with rows of pastel-painted homes lining the street like a storybook come to life. From sage green to cornflower blue, the facades reflect the city's signature flair for color—subtle, lived-in, and unmistakably local.
The Outer Richmond is one of San Francisco’s most peaceful and fog-kissed enclaves. Here, the homes are modest yet charming—built mostly in the 1920s to 1950s, many with art deco or Mediterranean influences and lovingly maintained over the years. This part of the city feels more residential than touristed, making it a favorite for locals who value quiet streets, beach proximity, and Golden Gate Park just blocks away.
A short walk from this spot leads directly to the Sutro Baths ruins, Land’s End Lookout, and the winding trails that trace the rugged coast. The ocean glows softly in the distance, framed by windswept cypress trees that punctuate the horizon. It’s a place where you can hear the waves from your front steps and watch the sun slip beneath the sea from your kitchen window.
For architecture lovers, it’s a glimpse into San Francisco’s understated housing stock—simple, functional, and full of personality. For photographers, it’s a perfect moment of geometry and light. And for dreamers, it’s a reminder that even in a bustling city, the edge of the world can feel like home.
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Photographed at Outer Harbour Marina parking lot near Tommy Thompson Park on the waterfront of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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The first of two lunar eclipses for 2026 took place in the few hours before sunrise as seen from the eastern half of North America on the morning of March 3. This was a shallow total eclipse, with the Moon passing through the far southern portion of Earth's shadow. The result was a fairly short, 58-minute duration of totality for this eclipse.
Complicating matters for observers in southern Ontario, including Toronto where I live, were three other facts: 1. The Moon would be quite low in the sky at the start of even the partial phase of the eclipse, and extremely low during the total phase. 3. The forecast was for a clear sky in the two days preceding the morning of the eclipse, but for clouds to move in just as the eclipse would be starting. 2. This winter has been very cold and snowy in this part of North America, and the forecast was for an overnight temperature of -9 C. (16 F.).
So especially with the outlook for cloud, I thought that the chance of seeing anything of this eclipse was quite low. But I'm an astronomer, so I had to try!
I got out of bed at 02.30 after about three and a half hours of sleep, packed my gear into the car, and drove the 14 km to the Toronto waterfront to set up and wait for the spectacle to start. When I got there around 03.15 the sky was still clear, and as the partial phase advanced I was able to get some decent photos through the telescope.
But then the predicted cloud started to roll in from the west, making further photography very difficult. most of the resulting images were washed out and soft looking, without the sharply defined lunar features that I've been lucky enough to capture at previous eclipses (see, for example, this album from April 2014: www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/albums/72157644114323234/), and this one from March 2025: www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/albums/72177720324484794/).
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Technical information:
Nikkor 24-70mm f/4 S lens on Nikon Z-7 camera body, mounted on a Manfrotto tripod with Kirk Enterprises ball head
30.5 mm focal length
1.6 sec. exposure at f/4, ISO 1000
Processed in Photoshop CS6
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Trying something new with manips. Nothing new in concept, but different editing techniques. The more I grow in knowledge, the longer these seem to take.
Near Nags Head, NC. October 2023.
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Railwaywise Scarborough is a shadow of its former existence which can be seen in this comparison with this pre -electrifcation early 80s scene taken from the same location.
079105 13 Nov 2016
Cunard Line's 'Queen Mary 2' approaches Outer Harbor, South Australia, as the container ship 'Carl Schulte' is guided towards the wharf.
Frisco, NC. October 2023.
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Photo of the Painted Hills captured via Minolta MD Tele Rokkor-X 135mm F/2.8 Lens. John Day Fossil Beds National Monument: Painted Hills Section (managed by the National Park Services). John Day/Clarno Uplands Area. Blue Mountains Region. Wheeler County, Oregon. Early April 2017.
Exposure Time: 1/30 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-200 * Aperture: F/11 * Bracketing: None
An alien looking, underwater world revealed by low tides Windansea Beach. With the storm clearing by the horizon and the setting sun lighting up those monsoon clouds, it was a perfect setting. All I needed to do was walk barefooted in knee deep water, one step at a time over those extremely slippery moss patches to make it to this location just in time!
Mostly just dirty and somekind of greasy along the edges, polished like the inner lens, just not so much.
A 15-inch Rodman gun, together with two 8-inch Rodmans on the left flank of Fort McHenry's Outer Battery.
None of these cast-iron guns were present during the 1814 bombardment, being mounted after the American Civil War and serving until 1912, although never fired in anger! However, the earthen banks have always mounted the Fort's heaviest artillery.
The 15-inch piece required a crew of 14, including four men just to carry each spherical explosive projectile. The gun, a muzzle-loader, weighed over 22 tonnes and required up to 23 kg of powder to fire the 200 kg projectile out to a maximum range of just five kilometres!
Designed by Frenchman Jean Foncin in 1798 and named after James McHenry, a Scots-Irish immigrant and surgeon-soldier who became Secretary of War under President Washington, Fort McHenry was built after America won its independence to defend the important Port of Baltimore from future enemy attacks. It was positioned on Locust Point peninsula which juts into the opening of Baltimore Harbor, and was constructed in the form of a five-pointed star surrounded by a dry moat. The moat would serve as a shelter from which musketmen might defend the fort from a land attack. In case of such an attack on this first line of defence, each point, or bastion, was fortified, so that the invading army would be caught in a crossfire of cannon and musket fire.
Of course, the fort is best known for its role in the War of 1812, when it successfully defended Baltimore Harbor from a half-hearted attack by the Royal Navy on 13-14 September 1814. It was during the bombardment of the fort that Francis Scott Key was inspired to write "The Star-Spangled Banner," the poem that would eventually be set to the tune of "To Anacreon in Heaven" and become the national anthem of the United States.
It took me about 15 minutes to build this lightbox from scratch. It cost about $80 with the bulbs, shop lights, foam core board and white gaffer's tape (which took me all day to locate at $28 a roll). But this experiment worked well. I hope to use it to shoot products for any websites we design.