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Grand view of Half Dome at Glacier Point, Vernel Falls and Nevada Falls on the lower right, Yosemite National Park, California.
The East Point Light, known as the Maurice River Light before 1913, is a lighthouse located in Heislerville, New Jersey on Delaware Bay at the mouth of the Maurice River in Maurice River Township, Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States.
The Lighthouse was closed today.
From the National Park Service web site:
A Brief History of the Point Reyes Lighthouse
The Point Reyes Headlands jut 10 miles (16 km) out to sea and pose a threat to ships traveling between San Francisco Bay and locations to the north. The historic Point Reyes Lighthouse was built in 1870 to warn mariners of this navigational hazard and served for 105 years. The Point Reyes Lighthouse was retired from service in 1975 when the U.S. Coast Guard installed an automated light adjacent and below the historic tower. The Coast Guard then transferred ownership of the lighthouse to the National Park Service, which has taken on the job of preserving this fine specimen of our maritime heritage.
The rocks at North Point are so interesting to photograph. Morro Bay's insane sunsets only add to the drama. Just remember to watch out for the tides or you and your camera will get wet.
Although this is not an HDR image, I used 32-bit processing and Nik fliters to achieve the final result.
Taking in the view of the badlands at Zabriskie Point in Death Valley National Park was one of my favorite experiences in the park. The eroded shapes of the badlands are really interesting and I feel like I could photograph there all day long.
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Point Sur Lightstation is a lighthouse at Point Sur, California, 135 miles (217 km) south of San Francisco, on the 361-foot (110 m)-tall rock at the head of the point. It was established in 1889 and is part of Point Sur State Historic Park. The light house is 40 feet (12 m) tall and 270 feet (82 m) above sea level. As of 2015, the light was still in operation as an aid to navigation.
The Point Bonita Lighthouse was built in 1855 to mark the entrance of the San Francisco Bay for Sailors coming from the South. Read more about it here. See location here.
So after I walked through the tunnel shown in my previous picture, I continued like 1/4 mile and this is the view of the deteriorating bridge and lighthouse. I would love to go back and experience the view in a clear summer day. The view must be spectacular. All I saw was fog during my short visit! :(
TGIF!
NOTE:
-NO HDR, one photo.
-I processed this photo with LR and I simply used a LR preset called "Focus: Dramatic sky" *FREE*
-It was a very cloudy/foggy day when I took this picture.
- I just installed the newest Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection. Everything looks so different. I am lost! :)
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This shows a sunrise at Pemaquid Point Lighthouse on the coast of Maine. Please also visit: www.acadiamagic.com/.
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I saw this one next to the trail at Abbotts lagoon, Point Reyes, California, USA.
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Per atlasobscura.com: Beached on a sandbar in Inverness, California, the abandoned Point Reyes Boat would seem to be little more than a large piece of detritus littering an otherwise protected wetland, but don’t tell that to the droves of photographers that take advantage of its mouldering beauty. Known as the Tomales Bay Shipwreck, the Inverness Shipwreck, or the S.S. Point Reyes, the tall fishing boat was once in danger of being removed, but it was local photographers who actually saved it. The vessel was originally dragged aground by the land’s previous owner who had intended to fix the ship up. However, like many fixer-upper projects, he never actually got around to the repairs, leaving the boat, which still bears the name, “Point Reyes,” to decay on the shore. When the land was taken over by a wetlands restoration firm, the boat was an obvious target for removal. But thanks to the attention the local photographers and visitors gave the wreck, the company allowed it stay right where it was.
Seal Point Lighthouse
Cape St Francis
South Africa
The treacherous seas and gnarly coastline of Algoa Bay claimed many sailing vessels and a solution was needed to protect the interests of the European companies using the popular southern African trade route.
On 21 November 1871, a company of men, including Captain Perry RN and Lieutenant Taylor RN, headed by Captain Skead, travelled from Port Port Elizabeth to inspect the Cape St Francis point for a suitable location for a lighthouse.
After surveying the area for seven days, they chose a spot a few feet above sea level where the iconic lighthouse would see the light of day and guide many vessels safely away from the dangers of local reefs.
Construction of the lighthouse commenced five years later, on March 17, 1876. Building was led by Joseph Flack, a clerk employed by the Cape Colonial Government’s Public Works Department and a man who’d spent time building on Robben Island. The lighthouse was built using rocks and materials blasted from local reefs and cut and dressed on location.
The lighthouse was completed in two and a half years and rose to a height of 27.75 metres, making it one of the tallest lighthouses in South Africa. To this day it is still the tallest masonry building on the South African coast.
Flack did not have the pleasure of seeing the work completed, since he died on 14 November 1876.
The lighthouse was lit for the first time on July 4, 1878 - 839 days after they started building it.
Light was produced by a three-wick burner, burning at 15,000 candles, flashing every 20 seconds, with a focal plane of 36 metres above sea level and a range of 28 nautical miles.
In 1906 a petroleum vapour burner was installed and the lighthouse's intensity was increased to 120,000 candles, while the flash rate was accelerated to one flash every five seconds
In 1931 the petroleum vapour burner made way for a 4kW incandescent electric lamp, powered by diesel electric generators, which produced 2,750,000 candles.
Today light is produced by a 1.5kW lamp with a range of 28 nautical miles.
Info from: sealpointlighthouse.com/history/
I thought about waiting until someone wandered into the scene so I could provide some scale to the vast landscape but then figured it might be a while. Not a lot of folks wandering around out there.
13-image pano taken from North Point in Storm King State Park.
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Neist Point is the most westerly point on the Isle of Skye.
What a location!
Perched at the very end of this point is Neist Point Lighthouse.
A bit of bright sky appeared.
Point Bolivar Light is in Port Bolivar, Texas. The lighthouse was built in 1872. It was retired in 1933 when it was replaced by another lighthouse.
© All rights reserved. A low-res, flatbed scan of a 6x7 (2 1/4 x 2 3/4 inch) transparency
And that's what one photographer had to contend with in order to get any shot on this very windy evening. It was one of those gale-force shoots with all the trimmings, like sand blowing off the cliff below, stinging your every exposed nerve. I almost bailed on this one and I guess I don't say that often.
Anyway, all whining aside, there are only 2 tall lighthouses anywhere near me, so, if I make the long trip, I really want to make it count.
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After 'foretaste' I headed up over the headland to catch the show in case it was a fizzer ..
This is above the entry to the 'Blowhole' that Kiama is famous for, interestingly when looking south (as we are here) at Kiama we're looking to the 'Heights' and Kiama Downs is in the North - has always tickled my sense of irony.
Olympus OM-1 w M.Zuiko 7-14/2.8 Pro
ISO800 f/11 7mm 8s x three frames shot as a vertical Panorama.
Raw developed in DxO PhotoLab, stitched and corrected in Affinity Photo 2, colour graded in Nik6 Color Efex, touched up in Topaz Denoise and finished off back in PhotoLab.
Kiama Blowhole, Kiama, NSW
A little place I like to call home! I am the luckiest person alive to be able to say this is where I live :)
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Night shot obtained zooming out with my lens, from 40mm to 17mm, during an exposure time of only 30 seconds, ISO 6400. Obviously camera on tripod.
Shot taken in the far September 27th 2011 while I was wandering during the night at the foot of Mount Paterno (Dolomites), whose tormented ridges look also as visually drag during the use of my zoom.
On the left, the more brilliant line is generated by planet Jupiter. The gas giant in our solar system that shines, especially on moonless nights, more than any star because of its "proximity" to the Earth.
Therefore, I hope it is clear, nothing to do with the star trail technique, which itself is often largely misunderstood. In that case you need to set a long exposure of at least 15 minutes up to what you want, also a few hours, by pointing your camera towards the Polaris in the Northern Hemisphere, or Sigma Octantis if your are in the Southern Hemisphere, then you obtain concentric trails. Also it is possible to point the camera toward any other cardinal point in order to get more "parallel" trails the more you get closer to the celestial equator.
Instead, in this shot the trails appear to come from a single point, as a sort of Big Bang structure, which wouldn't be obtainable in any other way except that zooming during exposure.
The fact of being able to get a similar shot in just 30 seconds (without having to wait hours!) undoubtedly has its advantages. An image like this definitely belongs within the field of abstract photography... this implies it may be necessary to make a few attempts before to get a "making sense" dialogue between the various elements visible and less visible to the naked eye.
Here it seemed to me that the shining Jupiter on the left, the ridges of Paterno at the bottom as well as on the right, and the central "point of origin", due to the lens zooming, contribute to create a logical structure in the overall image (hopefully also with a symbolic meaning).
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