View allAll Photos Tagged outer
Currituck Beach Lighthouse
Corolla, North Carolina
This is the northernmost of three major lighthouses on the Outer Banks of North Carolina; the others are Bodie Island and Cape Hatteras. Unlike the other two, the tower of Currituck Beach lighthouse is the natural color of the red-orange bricks, which I quite like -- particularly in warm sunlight. All three lighthouses were among the many venues of the Outer Banks Photography Workshop (Randall Sanger Photography & John Deas Photography).
Currituck Beach Lighthouse was begun in 1873 and its first-order Fresnel len was first lit December 1, 1875. The tower includes about one million bricks, it's walls tapering from about 5.5 feet thick at base to about 3 feet thick at top. It is about 150 feet to the top of the brick tower and 162 feet to the top of the lantern room, with a 158 foot focal plane. There are 214 stairs to the catwalk below the lantern room; I made the climb three years ago (photos in North Carolina album), but not this time. Still an active U.S. Coast Guard aid to navigation, the lighthouse has been automated; its grounds are now owned by Outer Banks Conservationists; the nonprofit organization spent about $1.5 million over three decades to restore the lighthouse complex, including two keepers' houses. Currituck Beach Lighthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 (73001333); boundary increases in 2000 changed the listing to Currituck Beach Lighthouse Complex.
Press "L" for larger image, on black.
Reprocessing some old jpg images with Topaz. I have simplified this image slightly, but the perfect reflection was very real -- the result of a thin skim of ice over the entire harbour, which, as the sun started to melt it, made it look like a mirror.
We got a good view looking across the St. Joseph River from the south pier to the north pier's outer light. The view of this light had been blocked by the pier's inner light when we were over on that side. The outer light had a lot more ice. Somebody was taking pictures of it with a drone. I'm probably on somebody's drone footage.
I haven't used this lens in awhile, thought I would test it out before putting it up for sale.
AF 80-200mm 2.8D, what a fabulous lens.
© 2016 Paul Chan - Canada. Photos are copyrighted. All rights reserved. Pictures can not be used without explicit permission by the creator.
For the Macro Mondays Theme: Wear and Tear
Thank you for your time, faves and comments, it's much appreciated
Happy Macro Mondays
National Express Gemini 4641 pauses momentarily in Winson Green as it works an 11C Outer Circle service
Vehicle Details
Operator: National Express West Midlands
Fleet Details: 4641 'Megan-Louise'
Registration: BX54 DFZ
Vehicle Type: Volvo B7TL, Wright Eclipse Gemini
Vehicle History
New to Acocks Green 10/04
transferred to West Bromwich 10/12
transferred to Acocks Green 08/14
Roanoke Sound, Nags Head, NC after a hard rain. Air got warm and met the cold water, causing the fog and beautiful light.
Jellyfish. Outer Bay exhibit. I have too many photos of these. I'll try to cull them down to a just below monotonous amount. Although, this one sums up the experience pretty well.
You all helped to eventually pull this shot into Explore for 6/22/07. Thanks everyone.
Press "L". Lo-fi of a factory-damaged Rollei Superpan film.
Pentax 67ii, SMC 200mm f4, Rollei Superpan 200 developed in Kodak D76 1+1, wet-mounted drumscan (scanned through PhotoMultiplier Tubes - PMTs - no CCD nor CMOS used in the light detection & digitizing process).
Marble + small glass dish
15/06/2026 22:44
Sony ILCE-6000 + Helios 44-2
1/2500s, ISO100, No Flash (f2.8)
Warsaw, Poland
Sunrise. Winter
In search of....coffee.
Join me on my personal website Erik Witsoe or contact me at ewitsoe@gmail.com for cooperation. Thank you.
I also write on Medium and you can find me here: Erik Witsoe.
If you like my work, you can support me by giving me a like on my Facebook Erik Witsoe Photography and 500px and Twitter Instagram and also Google + Thank you for stopping by!
Lowestoft Suffolk
The Port of Lowestoft is a harbour in Lowestoft in the English county of Suffolk. It's the most easterly harbour in the United Kingdom and has direct sea access to the North Sea. The harbour is made up of two sections divided by a bascule bridge.
Uploaded on 04-18-2019
You can see downtown Sacramento about eight miles away from here at the outer edge of West Sacramento.
Another night another September Sunset so we are off to Hope Cove and this Outer Hope rather than Inner Hope, looking towards Burgh Island with the sun shining on the small sandy cliffs.
Number: CT-1287
Name: Redwing
Rank: ARC Sergeant
Primary weapon: Altered DC-15
Secondary weapon: Modded Vibroblade
Equipment: Bacta-Implants, Integrated Squad Comms, Modified Long Range Binoculars, Personal Plasma Shield, Custom Durasteel Machete
...:: BEGIN LOG ::...
Sergeant Redwing here, this is my first log. The 92nd didn’t have logs for sergeants, but the 92nd was nothing compared to the 253rd Elite Legion. My battalion was chosen as a new addition to this mysterious legion know as the 253rd. I’ve heard stories of heroic commanders and Lieutenants, now I was to walk among them. After being selected as my battalion’s dispatch I was rushed to choose my squad. Then we were placed upon a Victory Class frigate for immediate transport to Trandosha. My men have been continuously getting more and more nervous. Those pesky lizards have a reputation among our ranks. We’re going to rest up as we enter hyperspace.
Awoken by a Junior Ensign banging on my quarter’s door, I was rushed to the bridge. I put on my gear as fast as I could, rushing through the halls of the vast interior of this frigate I realized I had left my blaster in my quarters. No matter. Something important was afoot and I doubted it was combat. I was uneasy walking onto the bridge. Waiting for me was the frigate’s commander, Commander Barron and Navy Officer Kir. Accompanying them was a hologram of what appeared to be...an Admiral of some sort.
“CT-1287 meet Admiral Syphen” “87, I have a change of plans for you and your squad.” I felt my face tighten and my heart beat increase rapidly.
Trandosha was no longer our target, the ice planet of Vandos Prime was. Chancellor Palpatine himself had requested the transfer of the 253rd out of Trandosha’s system. I was honored and confused simultaneously. Free from the worry of facing human sized lizards, we began briefing on our reassignment. The chancellor believes the CIS are using the new allied planet of Vandos Prime deep within Outer Rim territory to build a super weapon with the planet’s supply of Khyber crystals. Our goal: capture this weapon, at all costs. A highlight of the briefing was that we were not to share any of this mission’s information whatsoever with the Jedi or the GAR records. Many of my fellow commanders and sergeants agree on how odd that part is. Well, my squad and the rest of the 1st Regiment we’re tasked with infiltrating the planet’s atmospheric relay system. They need this massive antenna array due to radiation from the massive Atomhen crystals on the surface. To bypass the CIS blockade and security we’re to be shuttled by Sheathipede- Class transports above the station and are being supplied with jetpacks to descend upon the station.
Once aboard we made our way along the surface of the station to an entry port, unguarded we made our way to a maintenance shaft, from there we crawled our way past multiple generators allowing this massive satellite to stay in orbit. These generators were foreign tech to us but no doubt very impressive for an Outer Rim world. Being weighed down by ballistic charges we slowly came upon an opening in the shaft, the maintenance station. Just what we were looking for. Following one of my troopers I slid down to the floor and activated my Plasma Shield just as I heard a gasp from above. It wasn’t from one of my troopers though, it’d be muffled by the helmet. It was a Vandosian officer, “22 move fast, now!” Understanding immediately he took off down the hall. After the sounds of his boots hitting the ground disappeared they were quickly replaced with a pair of footsteps coming closer...
View from one of the towers
Angkor Wat is one of the oldest temples in the world that still functions as the significant religious center it was built to be. Constructed in the early 12th century for King Suryavarman II (ruled 1113-1150), Angkor Wat was a state temple and capital city for the community, first as a Hindu establishment and eventually becoming a Buddhist temple.
The temple is admired for the grandeur and harmony of the architecture, its extensive bas-reliefs, and for the numerous devatas adorning its walls.Angkor Wat combines two basic plans of Khmer temple architecture: the temple-mountain and the later galleried temple. It is designed to represent Mount Meru, home of the devas in Hindu mythology: within a moat and an outer wall 3.6 kilometres long and three rectangular galleries, each raised above the next. At the centre of the temple stands a quincunx ( geometric pattern consisting of five points arranged in a cross, with four of them forming a square or rectangle and a fifth at its center) of towers.
Here you can see the three galleries down and the outer wall far away. It is said that only the king and the high priest were allowed on the upper or third level of Angkor Wat.
"Beaumaris Castle had two outer gatehouses. One faced the land (leading into the barbican), and the other, known as the 'Gate Beside the Sea' or the South Gate, faced the Menai Strait.
The "Gate Beside the Sea" was particularly significant as it incorporated a Dock. This allowed supply ships of up to 40 tons to sail right up to the castle walls at high tide, crucial for resupply during sieges.
Both outer gates were designed as the first layer of a complex defense system. Attackers breaching them would still face the outer ward and then the formidable inner ward.
The towers and gatehouses were equipped with numerous arrow loops at different levels, providing archers with protected firing positions.
The parapets above the gate arches featured machicolations, projecting stone structures with openings in the floor. These allowed defenders to drop projectiles or hot liquids on anyone trying to force the gate."
2025 Keith Jones All Rights Reserved
January 1, 2017
First day of the new year. A beach day!
365 Days Project 1/365
Nauset Outer Beach
Orleans, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
Photo by brucetopher
© Bruce Christopher 2017
All Rights Reserved
...always learning - critiques welcome.
No use without permission.
Please email for usage info.
Bodie Island Light
Outer Banks
Dare County, North Carolina
Bodie (pronounced like "body") Island Lighthouse, a few miles north of Oregon Inlet, is in the middle position among the three major lighthouses on North Carolina's Outer Banks; Currituck Beach is the farthest north, and Cape Hatteras is the most southerly. The Outer Banks Photography Workshop (Randall Sanger Photography & John Deas Photography) visited all three, beginning with this one on the first evening. The few clouds hugged the horizon and did not provide a remarkable display of color, but the warm sunlight and soft orange of the clouds nonetheless were nice. (Given the wind we had, mosquitos were surprisingly abundant.)
The lighthouse tower is the third at this site. The first (1848) was built on a poor foundation because of U.S. Treasury skimping and soon needed replacement. The second (1859) tower was a casualty of the American Civil War, blown up by Confederate troops to keep it from aiding the Union Navy. The current brick tower (built 1870-72, soon after Cape Hatteras light) is topped by a cast iron lantern room with a 1st-order Fresnel lens. Sources differ on some points, such as year the light was automated (1931 vs. 1954), height of lighthouse (150, 156, 163, and 165 feet); per www.outer-banks.com/lights/nbodie.cfm, it is 150 feet to the top of the tower, 165 feet to the top of the lantern room, and 156 feet the from ground to the focal plane. Bodie Island light is an active aid to navigation. The property was transferred from the Coast Guard to the National Park Service in 2000; the double keepers' house, built in 1893, is now a visitor center. Bodie Island Light Station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 (03000607).
Press "L" for larger image, on black.