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Swanage, Dorset UK.
The Wellington clock tower is a structure that stands on the seafront at Swanage in Dorset, England. It was originally built by the Commissioners for Lighting the West Division of Southwark at the southern end of London Bridge in 1854. It was intended as a memorial to the recently deceased Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, though funds proved insufficient to provide a statue of the man at the top of the tower, as had been originally intended. It housed a clock with four faces that were illuminated from within and a small telegraph office. Within 10 years the structure was overshadowed by the construction of nearby railway structures and became an obstruction to traffic using the bridge. It was disassembled in 1867.
The structure was saved by the Swanage-based contractor George Burt and shipped back to his hometown, without the clock mechanism. He gifted it to fellow contractor Thomas Docwra who erected it in the grounds of his house at Peveril Point. Later owners removed the spire in 1904, though the structure remains a prominent landmark in the town and was granted grade II protection as a listed building in 1952.
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Spiral staircase inside Race Point Lighthouse, Provincetown, Cape Cod - taken with my iPhone
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These guys are just perched on the cotton tails and the wind was wild....they were just swaying away....it was quite a lovely sight.......
Point Clark Lighthouse is located on in a beach community, Point Clark, Ontario, near a point that protrudes into Lake Huron. Built between 1855 and 1859
Neist Point is a viewpoint on the most westerly point of Skye. Neist Point Lighthouse has been located there since 1909.
Neist Point is the most westerly point on the Duirinish peninsula on the Isle of Skye. It projects into The Minch and provides a walk and viewpoint.
Basalt at Neist Point is very similar to that at the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland. A steep path leads down from the road. Whales, dolphins, porpoises and basking shark can be seen from the point. Common seabirds include gannets, black guillemots, razorbills and European shags. Several rare plants, including saxifrages are found on the point.
The land and the trees all point upwards here towards the sky. A pretty location there in Yellowstone National Park.
Per the U.S. National Park Service, "Point Reyes is the windiest place on the Pacific Coast and the second foggiest place on the North American continent." The lighthouse was built in 1870 and taken out of service in 1975. It is now part of the National Park Service. Reaching the lighthouse requires a vigorous, hilly walk and then down 308 steps. Despite this, it is an extremely popular destination for locals and visitors.
This is Marble Canyon Arizona, at a place called Buck Farm Point. This is the beginning of the Grand Canyon on the East Side.
This strange object, stranded on the rocks is one of the remaining sections of the Mulberry Harbour, an eerie remnant of World War Two. A floating pontoon which bore a roadway, secretly tested at Garlieston in 1943 and used during the D-Day landings in Normandy.
The two sections stranded here lend an air of weirdness to what is already a bleak place. Brutalist in shape and industrial in appearance, they lay like shipwrecks, buffeted by tide after tide, slowly eroding away.
Rocky Point at the Sue-Meg State Park near Trinidad, CA is well-named, with the Pacific Ocean haze and fog playing its part on this day, October, 2024. My wife thought this was a black-and-white, but it was shot in color.
A night by Collins Pool with a tiny island view, under the dazzling rise of the Southern Milky Way and the auroras.
Just as if nature had planned it, the Aurora Australis started to paint the sky in soft waves of pink, red, and yellow.
Most people know the northern lights, but our southern auroras are rarer because of how the Earth’s magnetic field interacts down here. Without as many land masses in the south, it’s a treat we don’t often get to see as brightly in the south. In fact, I didn't even realize the #auroras were that bright until I was already into my 2nd shot of this sky's pano, had I known, I would've used a wider lens...easier to stitch.
The image is a composite, the ground was shot while the moon was out while the sky was captured on the same night after the moon had set.
Sky
Nikon D5500 (fullspectrum mod)
Nikon 50mm f/1.8
Star Adventurer Pro 2i
Hoya UV/IR Cut
40x20s, f/2.8
Foreground
Nikon D5200
Samyang 24mm f/1.4
6 shots in portrait mode at f/4