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Whiteford Point Lighthouse, the last remaining wave-swept cast iron lighthouse found in the British Isles
I finally made my way up to Wolf Point over the weekend after stopping to get Italian Ice at Mario's. Double Win. 16x9 tho.
The annoyingly-not-quite-vertical lighthouse!
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Advanced security robot powered by an experimental zero-point generator. Nicknamed "Dot" by her designers.
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Features 38 points of articulation. Additional photos on the Instagram post: www.instagram.com/p/B-pjeHWpkZx/
San Pedro, CA
The lighthouse was built in 1874 and designed by Paul J. Pelz, who also designed Point Fermin's sister stations, East Brother Island Light in Richmond, California, Mare Island Light, in Carquinez Strait, California (demolished in the 1930s), Point Hueneme Light in California (replaced in 1940), Hereford Inlet Light in North Wildwood, New Jersey, and Point Adams Light in Washington State (burned down by the Lighthouse Service in 1912), all in essentially the same style. The original fourth order Fresnel lens was removed in 1942 and a wood replica lantern was installed in 1974. The lighthouse was saved from demolition in 1972 and refurbished in 1974, and a new lantern room and gallery were built by local preservationists. In 1972, the light was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Historical Information from Coast Guard web site:
Point Fermin Light was built in 1874 with lumber from California redwoods. In 1941 the light was extinguished due to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. There was fear that the light would serve as a beacon for enemy planes and ships. Later, the lantern room and gallery were removed. They were replaced by a lookout shack that remained for the next 30 years and was referred to as "the chicken coop" by locals. In 1972 the light was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The light fell into disuse and disrepair. A new lantern room and gallery were built in 1974.
The building has now been restored to its original state and is open to the public as the Point Fermin Lighthouse Historic Site and Museum.
U.S. Coast Guard Archive:
The original Fresnel lens from the lighthouse, removed in the 1940s, had been missing for decades. After being found and positively identified, on November 13, 2006, the lens was relocated to a display in the restored lighthouse museum from the real estate office of Louis Busch in Malibu, California where it had been on display.
The lighthouse is open daily except for Monday and holidays.
In 1986, the lighthouse appeared in a second-season episode of Amazing Stories, "Magic Saturday".
In June 2011, the General Services Administration made the Point Fermin Light (along with 11 others) available at no cost to public organizations willing to preserve them.
Spurn Point (also known as Spurn Head) is a narrow sand spit on the tip of the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire. It reaches into the North Sea and forms the north bank of the mouth of the Humber estuary.
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This area is just downstream and on a side channel from the main falls of Great Falls National Park. These rocks are pointing in the direction of the main channel of the Potomac River just below the main falls. The water level is low and has exposed this outcropping of rocks in the river.
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The oceanic pole of inaccessibility
48°50 S 123° 20 W
Vendee Globe rank 151 458 th over 450 000 or so ....
due to bad option around st Helen in South atlantic ocean ...
path to recover is ...a long way but .. I'll try to improve my pos on ranking !......keep it up sailor........... virtual though...dry & comfortable
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After so much bad weather it was refreshing to get out for my first Milky Way of the season.
A friend and I made our way to the historical wharf at Boreen Point on Lake Cootharaba, Sunshine Coast, arriving to a relatively still night with a gentle breeze from the south with some cloud approaching. Although the gentle breeze ruined the reflections the Milky Way itself was spectacular.
The Point Cabrillo Lighthouse complex is located about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Mendocino, California, and includes the lighthouse itself together with several outbuildings. Most of the original structures remain, but the barn is missing: in 1986 it was destroyed in a fire department exercise.[1] The remaining lighthouse station is "one of the most complete light stations in the United States".[2]
Atop the lighthouse spins a third order Fresnel lens with four panels containing 90 lead glass prisms and weighing 6800 pounds, constructed by Chance Brothers, an English company, and shipped to Point Cabrillo around Cape Horn. The light is only 32 feet (9.8 m) above the ground, but because of the height of the headlands it stands 81 feet (25 m) above sea level. It was originally lit by a kerosene lamp and turned by a clockwork mechanism but this was replaced by an electric light and motor in 1935. The present light uses a single 1000-watt electric filament, the light from which is magnified by a factor of one thousand by the lens, and spins once every 40 seconds producing a flash every 10 seconds.[1]
From Wikipedia
Today was a challenging aerial filming day but I'll get into that on a later post. I did manage to take a regular photo from the ground in between some serious sky surfing.
Blue Angel F18 NO.6 plane crashed here in early June 2016. Between two slave cabins, from the past, on the Sam Davis State Historical Site near Smyrna, TN. After restoration of the site you can see a treeline in the background (1700 ft.) where it finally stopped.
On this particular morning a few weeks ago, it was cold, very cold if you value your fingers, (-12C/10F), and the air was dead still. At this time shore ice had not yet formed and only slight ice build-up had formed on the piles of the remains of the groynes used to stabilize the beach and minimize erosion. But the sky was filled with some great clouds. I got down low and hand-held the camera just above the wet sand (bubble level attached to help me keep the camera level), shot very wide and this is the result. Along the horizon you can see dark dots. It is a bit hard to see at the posting size but these are very large numbers of Canada Geese that seem to call this area home. A cloudscape at Fifty Point/Kelson Beach at the West boundary of Grimsby, Ontario looking North over Lake Ontario. - JW
Date Taken: 2017-12-28
Tech Details:
Taken using a hand-held Nikon D7100 fitted with an AF Nikkor 12-24mm lense set to 12mm, ISO100, Auto WB, Shutter Priority mode, f/4.0, 1/800 sec with an EV+1.33 exposure bias. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set image final dimensions to 9000x6000, adjust exposure to -0.33 stops below (darker than) as-shot, very slightly increase contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, very lightly increase vibrance, sharpen, save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: very slightly refine overall tonality using the tone curve tool (it was nearly dead-on as-shot so all this was just extremely minor refinement), sharpen, save, scale image to 6000x4000, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 1800 wide for posting, sharpen slightly, save.