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Pigeon Point Light Station or Pigeon Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse built in 1871 to guide ships on the Pacific coast of California. It is the tallest lighthouse on the West Coast of the United States. It is still an active Coast Guard aid to navigation. Pigeon Point Light Station is located on the coastal highway, 5 miles south of Pescadero, California, between Santa Cruz and San Francisco. The 115-foot, white masonry tower, resembles the typical New England structure. Because of its location and ready access from the main highway, Pigeon Point entertains a large number of public visitors.
Washburn Point is a less-frequented lookout along the road to Glacier Point. The perspective on Half Dome Mountain from Washburn Point is an unusual one, from which the rock looks less like half of a dome than it does like a tenon.
Point du Grouin (Bretagne, France)
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Tomales Point Trail in Point Reyes National Seashore is 4.7 miles (7.5 km) one way.
The last 1.7 miles (2.7 km) is unmaintained trail if you wish to reach the end of Tomales Point.
Finlay Point is a small community near Mabou on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, October 16, 2015.
Camera: Nikon D7100 & Nikkor 18-105mm lens
Noses Point, Dawdon, Seaham, County Durham, North East England, UK. Colliery waste slowly being eroded away by the power of the North sea. . .
I should have known that Point Reyes would be busy the day after Christmas--there were a long line of cars on the 20 mile drive out to the lighthouse. Here is just a sample of the parking situation once we arrived. Point Reyes is a few hours north of San Francisco.
Ladle was too full, so some had to be dumped out. The steel that was dumped out will be remelted and used again.
Glacier Point was the wonderful surprise of the holiday that I wasn't expecting to get to see. Reading guides to the park before I left suggested that the road up to Glacier Point doesn't normally reopen till mid May but this year, the road was open from the end of April.
From this massive vista, you sit almost 1000m directly above the Yosemite Valley floor, looking down towards North America's tallest waterfall and some of the most distinctive mountains in the World. I did promise I wouldn't stand right on the edge and I generally keep my promises but in this case, getting a good look at impending death was something I just couldn't resist.
A peek-a-boo view of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, from Point Defiance Park. The original Tacoma Narrows Bridge was also known as Galloping Gertie because it would sway in the wind with the road way oscillating vertically. That bridge didn't even last six months before it collapsed. The lessons learned from that changed how suspension bridges were designed around the world.
The Salmon Beach neighborhood is on the left shore just above the vertical center. It was originally a bunch of summer fishing shacks but it evolved into year-round dwellings. A wealthy developer wanted to kick them out because he thought they were an eyesore. He failed because they were squatting on land owned by someone else who wanted them there. Now I think they're technically leasing the land they're on and their legal status is no longer in question.
The tree on the lower right is known here as a Madrona tree. In Canada they're called Arbutus. In Mexico they're jokingly called Tourist trees because their skin is red and peeling.
Tacoma, WA
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The lighthouse on Portishead Point in the servern estuary is an unusual black pyramid shaped structure atop a square concrete base. The unusual tower, unique in design, was built by 'Chance Brothers', near birmingham - it would likely have been pre-fabricated at their factory ready for assembly on site. The tower dates from 1931, is 9 metres in height and is accessed by an elevated walkway supported by concrete pillars.
Recently due to financial restraints, the tower has not been painted and the metal has rusted and the tower has deteriorated so much that the Bristol Port Company is concerned about it's strength and is discussing plans to replace the tower, despite local opposition.
Originally a Fog Bell was hung from the corner of the tower but has been removed due to concerns of whether the structure could still handle it's weight - it is now in storage somewhere in Bristol.
The locals are campaigning for the bell to be put back on site as well as for the tower to be restored somewhat, being an important surviving example of a unique Chance Brothers design.
The White light, mounted on the square gallery at the top of the tower gives 3 quick Flashes every 10 seconds and is visible for 16 nautical miles.
This is Nash Point Lighthouse, in South Wales, United Kingdom. I took this photograph yesterday afternoon, walking the coast path. The rainbow, the Skyline and of course, the Lighthouse are all highlighted in the picture. 7th of November 23'
If you're driving near the airport in Toronto, this is the kind of view you get on an almost daily basis.
So last Thursday, I began to get the itch to try for another Big Sur Pfeiffer Arch sunset shot, and by Saturday, I had made arrangements for a quick overnight trip up the coast. On Saturday morning, I turned on the audio version of Billy Crystal's "Still Foolin Em" and set off for the 320 mile trip up the coast. I knew that the national weather service was calling for mostly cloudy skies, but on the satellite, the clouds looked a bit broken and I thought I might get lucky with the sky above the arch. I arrived in Big Sur by mid afternoon, but the clouds had rolled in a bit too thick and I was bang out of luck in terms of getting any sunlight through the arch. I drove almost two hours back down South almost to Cambria to try to find some sun, but pretty much everything was socked in by that point. Feeling a bit down, I headed up to my motel in Monterey hoping for better luck that night. The moon actually came out after a 90 minute drive up to Pigeon Point and I had some decent luck shooting until the cops showed up. .
The next morning , I got up at 4:30 on a hunch that the same high clouds might hang around long enough to catch some of that early morning light. I arrived at 6 AM and was a bit nervous that the cops might return as the beach area didn't open to the public unti 8 AM, but at 6:30, I threw caution to the wind and set up the tripod as the sky was just beginning to light up. For the next 25 minutes or show, I fired off dozens of frames as the sky caught fire.
It was very cathartic for me to be able to finally get an early morning shot of this lighthouse after getting shut out over the Summer by fog. The clouds disappeared shortly after I shot the lighthouse, and there was quite a crowd down at the arch by the time sunset rolled around. I shot wider this year with the 14-24 and the fisheye and I hope to get some of those shots up in the next couple of weeks.
Then it was six hours back home. Definitely worth the drive last year, and definitely worth the drive again this year. I'm expecting it will definitely be worth the drive next year as well.
This absolutely screamed out to be tweaked and twiddled.
So I obliged to within an inch of its life.
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The Point Bonita lighthouse sits on the tip of Marin County near the entrance to the Golden Gate Bridge
A second five-point buck has been hanging around for a few days. This is a different one from the other one we've seen. This one is a little smaller, perhaps younger. We don't see very many five-point bucks but many more three and four pointers.
Dead Horse Point State Park is a state park of Utah, USA, featuring a dramatic overlook of the Colorado River and Canyonlands National Park. The park is so named because of its use as a natural corral by cowboys in the 19th century. The "dead horse" part of the name is that the corral was abandoned, but the horses did not leave the corral, even after the gate was left open, and died there. The park covers 5,362 acres (21.70 km2) of high desert at an altitude of 5,900 feet (1,800 m).
Another view from last Sunday morning at 50 Point. I wanted to make the pier big in the frame, so I had to get the camera right down in near the water... which meant that I had to wade out a bit.
Luckily the water was warm and calm. Unluckily... I was wearing pants. :)
The lighthouse at Point Atkinson was built in 1914 and replaced the original wooden structure, it marks one side of the entrance to English Bay, Vancouver, BC
Cold winter morning on the South Rim, just after sunrise. It was really incredible how fast the light changed. I was lucky to get a few passable shots. You could spend days or weeks working here and still not do the canyon justice. Glad I was there, though!
Another shot of Tom Waits performing at Edinburgh Playhouse in July of last year as part of his 'Glitter and Doom' tour..
As I have previously mentioned, I came home from a weekend away to find an invitation to photograph this gig for The Scotsman...but only read the e-mail about 35 minutes before I needed to be there. It was all very exciting. :-)
My invitation came from Alex Hewitt at The Scotsman (to whom my thanks have so often been due).
You can see the shot The Scotsman published here:
You can see my other posted pics from this gig in my Tom Waits set.