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A couple weeks before, a powerful and damaging storm blew through Northern Michigan littering this picturesque beach with logs, limbs and vegetation. On this day, a good blow that was an absolute "cream-puff" compared to the previous one, transformed the turquoise waters this stretch is known for into a milk chocolate colored sand slurry.
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
:=)
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
This mark was on the same wall at St John's church, but about 1.5 m above ground level.
The website, Trigpointing UK has pictures of many, many trigpoints, and this one appears to be unique, with that deeply-cut triangle going through the traditional benchmark.
So, while I will include this in my Banchmarks album, I believe this is a "3rd Order Trig Point" to use the terminology that's used to describe them.
Now, imagine some dude from Ordnance Survey rocking up to your house today and chiselling a mark on the wall ... that could lead to a fun exchange of words!
"Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one." (William James)
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.
Built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1873, and designed by E. Francis Baldwin, the Point of Rocks station is situated at the junction of the B&O Old Main Line (running to Baltimore) and the Metropolitan Branch (running to Washington, D.C.).
The Met Branch also opened in 1873 and became the principal route for passenger trains between Baltimore, Washington, and points west.
The station building itself is not open to the public and is used by CSX as storage and offices for maintenance of way crews.
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.
There is no weather or time of year when Point Reyes is anything less than magical.
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Sunset at Point Vicente on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in the Los Angeles area. On this mostly clear day, Catalina island was very visible in the distance. The lighthouse was hard at work. A beautiful spot indeed.
Single image with some minor post production adjustments.
The Point Lonsdale Lighthouse has saved many lives. In this age of GPS we so often forget that fact. Point Lonsdale and Point Nepean lie just 3.5 kilometres apart, and through this channel flows all the water in tidal flows from Port Phillip Bay (1,930 square kilometres of water at a mean depth of 8 metres).
This means that a very specific channel has been dredged between The Rip and Port Melbourne, and any shipping that veers off this channel will run aground.
When the weather is bad, The Rip becomes a nightmare for shipping. To this day pilots are required to bring large ships through, although the Spirit of Tasmania Captains are fully qualified to navigate these treacherous waters.
Over the years before the lighthouse was built in 1902, many ships were wrecked on the rocky reef that lies just below the water's surface, and dozens of lives were lost. So we've struck The Rip on a relatively calm day, although it is clear from this picture that the water is rougher than we've had all across Bass Strait.
Here's The Rip in really rough weather.
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PHOTO NOTE: The first thing we note immediately in this shot is that the deep blue water colour has disappeared. This is not an overexposure. It's simple physics. At this point we are looking almost directly west into the sun, so the light is reflected into our eyes and the camera lens. That made working on this photograph a very tricky business and it took a long time to bring out the subtle range of colour this shot affords. It was also getting relatively dark (as the clouds were doing amazing things in a brooding sky). But in the end I think it was worth the effort experimenting in camera and with the processing of this shot.
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Nugget Point is located on New Zealand's East Coast. The conditions were not great for us on this morning, but I had a great time just sitting alone in my little elevated spot, watching the sun come up.