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Equipement :
Canon 450D
Canon 10-22 usm
Trépied Vanguard
Filtre Hitech ND 1.2
Filtre Hitech 0.9 Hard grad
Exif:
450D / 10 mm / 0.6s / f13 / iso100 / +1 Ev / Priorité ouverture (Av)
Architect: C.F. Møller
Built in: Phase 1: 2008-2011, phase 2: 2011-
Client: Annehem Fastigheter AB
Point Hyllie will be an important part of the new urban space around Hyllie station square. The development consists of four tower blocks rising up from a column-supported base.
The tallest building will be approximately 95 m high, the next-tallest 49 m, and the final two between 29 and 23 m high. The two tallest buildings, the twin towers, will according to the architect symbolize a gateway to Sweden.
The project will encompass 300 homes as well as offices and shops, and will form a distinctive landmark in the area.
Woody Point has changed a lot during the past 18 years I've lived on the Redcliffe Peninsula. The seaside village feel has been replaced by the over-populated, over-priced, hustle and bustle that is all too common now in seaside townships across Australia. Meanwhile, a short 100 metre stroll from this highrise, many are living in tents and in squalor. This is Australia in 2025.
Woody Point, Queensland, January 11th 2025.
Built in 1877 on top of a very narrow rocky point about two miles west of the Golden Gate Bridge near San Francisco, California.
Cape St George Lighthouse, Jervis Bay Territory, NSW South Coast. Constructed in 1860 active until 1889. Destroyed between 1917-1922 to avoid confusion with the nearby Point Perpendicular light.
This Osprey hovering over my head certainly gave me a different point of view, I was just worried about other things!..... please view on black
A trip to Carmel, California meant a visit to Point Lobos, and an attempt at some Edward Weston-inspired photos of the famous state park.
Point Reyes is a prominent cape on the Pacific coast of northern California. It is located in Marin County approximately 30 mi (48 km) WNW of San Francisco. The term is often applied to the Point Reyes Peninsula, the promontory bounded from Tomales Bay on the northeast and Bolinas Lagoon on the southwest. The headland is protected as part of Point Reyes National Seashore.
The cape protects Drakes Bay on its southern side. The headland is largely drained by Drakes Estero. Inverness Ridge runs along the peninsula's northwest-southeast spine, with forested peaks around 430 meters (1,400 feet). West of the ridge, the land flattens out and the vegetation turns to scrub. The Mount Vision Fire in 1995 burned part of Inverness Ridge.
The peninsula is a popular recreational destination for the nearby San Francisco Bay Area, especially for hiking on its many trails and sea kayaking the shores of Tomales Bay and the coast.
Vegetation native to Point Reyes includes Bishop pine, Douglas-fir, coyote brush, monkeyflower, poison oak, California blackberry, salal and coast redwood, among others.
During the Cold War, submarines repaired at Mare Island Naval Shipyard were tested in the shallow waters off Point Reyes following shipyard repairs. Navy safety personnel used a small monitoring and communications hut on the peninsula for monitoring submarines during these sea trials.
Point Reyes Lighthouse was used as the radio station for Antonio Bay in the John Carpenter film "The Fog".
Point Reyes lends its name to the town of Point Reyes Station, California.
Nugget point may not be the southernmost point on New Zealand but it is on the south end on the south island and there ahead there is nothing until you reach Antarctica.
It is the golden hour and the sun's light warms the scene while the waves roll in.
You should really watch this Large On Black since that brings out much more details. My pictures aren't balanced for a white background and a lot of the finer details are lost in this small format.
La Pointe Aux Oies, Wimereux.
Côte D'opale, Pas-de-Calais, France
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Seeing as this skip was twice the height of our ladders this became our vantage point for 2 hours this morning. Despite the new found height Mr Wheeler still opted to stand on ladders on top of the skip! Thanks again for a great day to Neil, Ben, Dave, Steve..... oh and Iain Wright ;)
66004 passes by with 4N65 Eggborough Power Station - Redcar coal empties
Point Cook Homestead..
In 1853 the pastoralist Thomas Chirnside added the farmlands of Point Cook to his holdings. He built the famous Point Cook Homestead of twenty-five rooms in 1857. Initially Point Cook was an important segment of the expanding pastoral empire established by Thomas and his brother Andrew. As their extensive land holdings were developed substantial homesteads were later constructed at Werribee Park, Carranballac, Mount Williams and Curnong..
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Due to the Chirnside brothers' deep interest in hunting, deer and foxes were introduced to Point Cook in the 1850s. As early as 1859 members of the Melbourne Hunt Club and the Geelong & District Hunt Club were invited to hunt at Point Cook. In the early 1860s Thomas Chirnside imported valuable horses for the breeding at Point Cook. The property was said to have three racetracks. The Chirnsides became one of Victoria's prominent pastoral families, entertaining the colonial gentry and organising sporting functions for their guests at Point Cook.
Steps:
1. Import Adobe light room (-2,+2,0)
2. Export to HDR EFEX PRO
3. Expert to Adobe Photoshop CS5 for high pass sharpening
4. Save as jpeg.
Cape Point is a promontory at the southeast corner of the Cape Peninsula, which is a mountainous and scenic landform that runs north-south for about thirty kilometres at the extreme southwestern tip of the African continent in the Republic of South Africa. Table Mountain and the city of Cape Town are close to the northern extremity of the same peninsula. The cape is located at 34°21′26″S 18°29′51″ECoordinates: 34°21′26″S 18°29′51″E, about 2.3 kilometres (1.4 mi) east and a little north of the Cape of Good Hope on the southwest corner.[1] Although these two rocky and beautiful capes are very well-known, neither cape is actually the southernmost point in Africa; that is Cape Agulhas, approximately 150 kilometres (90 mi) to the east-southeast.
Map showing the Cape Peninsula, illustrating the positions of the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Point.
The peak above Cape Point is higher than that above the Cape of Good Hope. The rugged sandstone (Table Mountain sandstone) ridge that rises from Cape Point at sea level develops into two peaks. There is a major peak that dominates the skyline locally but there is also a smaller peak about 100 m further south. The higher peak has the old lighthouse on the top. The Flying Dutchman Funicular runs from a car park to the north up to slightly below the level of the old lighthouse and a short flight of steps leads to a viewing platform at the base of the lighthouse. From the end of the railway a second path leads to the lower peak.
The new lighthouse is at a lower elevation (closer to sea level), for two reasons: the old lighthouse could be seen 'too early' by ships rounding the point towards the east, causing them to approach too closely. Secondly, foggy conditions often prevail at the higher levels, making the older lighthouse invisible to shipping. On 18 April 1911, the Portuguese liner Lusitania was wrecked just south of Cape Point at 34°23′22″S 18°29′23″E on Bellows Rock for precisely this reason, prompting the relocation of the lighthouse.
The new location cannot be seen from the West until ships are at a safe distance to the South. The light of the new Cape Point lighthouse is the most powerful on the South African coast, with a range of 63 kilometres (39 mi) and an intensity of 10 megacandelas in each flash.[2]
Cape Point is situated within the Table Mountain National Park, within a section of the Park referred to as Cape of Good Hope. This section covers the whole of the southern tip of the Cape Peninsula and which takes in perhaps 20% of its total area.[3] The Cape of Good Hope section of the park is generally wild, unspoiled and undeveloped and is an important haven for seabirds. The vegetation at Cape Point consists primarily of Peninsula Sandstone Fynbos.
View over Cape Point; the lighthouse's white dome is just visible. The Cape of Good Hope is behind the camera.
Cape Point is often mistakenly claimed to be the place where the cold Benguela Current of the Atlantic Ocean and the warm Agulhas Current of the Indian ocean collide. In fact, the meeting point fluctuates along the southern and southwestern Cape coast, usually occurring between Cape Agulhas and Cape Point. The two intermingling currents help to create the micro-climate of Cape Town and its environs. Contrary to popular mythology, the meeting point of the currents produces no obvious visual effect; there is no "line in the ocean" where the sea changes colour or looks different in some way. There are, however, strong and dangerous swells, tides and localized currents around the point and in adjacent waters. These troubled seas have witnessed countless maritime disasters in the centuries since ships first sailed here.
Fishing is good along the coast but the unpredictable swells make angling from the rocks very dangerous. Over the years scores of fishermen have been swept to their deaths from the rocky platforms by freak waves. False Bay, which opens to the east and north of Cape Point, is the location of the well-known naval port of Simon's Town. The bay is also famous - or infamous - for its great white sharks, which hunt the Cape Fur Seals that live in the area.
Cape Point is the site of one of the Global Atmosphere Watch's atmospheric research stations. In the early years of the 20th century icebergs from Antarctica were occasional spied from Cape Point. Whether there have been any authentic recent sightings of ice in this age of global warming is difficult to establish.
Dusk, Point Iroquois Lighthouse, Chippewa County, Michigan. A wooden lighthouse was established at Point Iroquois in 1855 in conjunction with the first commercial shipping on Lake Superior. Point Iroquois, Michigan / Gros Cap, Ontario mark the boundary between the St. Marys River and Whitefish Bay / Lake Superior. Point Iroquois was named for the Iroquois warriors massacred by the Ojibway in 1662. The native Algonkin name for the Point is Nadouenigoning- -”Iroquois bones”.
The current Cape Cod Style lighthouse was built in 1870 with a fourth order Fresnel lens in a 65 foot / 20m tower, and was deactivated in 1962. The site is managed by the U.S Forest Service as part of the Hiawatha National Forest, and is open to the public. Point Iroquois is 20 miles / 32 km west of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
Point Abino lighthouse is located on the North shore of Lake Erie just West of Crystal Beach, Ontario. The lighthouse sits on the tip of a peninsula that projects into the Lake and, for most of its life, warned sailing vessels of the treacherous hidden rock shelves. Now decommissioned and turned into a historic site with tours provided several times a year by a local preservation group, it remains a largely inaccessible property due to restricted access by road. Most of the peninsula is held by a local property association and the access agreement kindly provides foot access but only between Victoria Day (3rd week of May) and Labour day (1st week of September) as well as special tour dates organized by the preservation group, the Point Abino Lighthouse Preservation Society, www.facebook.com/groups/1042270832482658/ . This image is of the lighthouse as seen from just ashore of the edge of Lake Erie (waves were lapping at my feet) and looks more-or-less Northeast. This was taken on the last tour of the 2016 season and the property is not accessible to visitors until next spring unless they come in by water. - JW
Date Taken: 2016-09-24
Tech Details:
Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D7100 fitted with a Nikkor 12-24mm lense set to 12mm, ISO100, Auto WB, Aperture priority mode, f/7.1, three bracketed exposures spaced at EV+/-2.0 around a base exposure time of 1/800 sec. HDR processing was done in free Open Source Luminance using 3 bracketed images and the Mantiuk06 tone-mapping operator (with settings as shown below) to emphasize texture over colour, and result saved to a tiff format file. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee for tiff file: adjust exposure to slightly darker and then adjust contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, slightly increase vibrance, enable shadows-highlights and significantly recover highlights and slightly recover shadows, save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: slightly modify the tone curve to hold the bottom 70% of the curve at default and then slightly pull up/brighten the top 30%, slightly increase contrast, sharpen, save, add fine B&W frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 1800 wide for posting, sharpen slightly, save.
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Built in 1856 on the south shore of Lake Superior, the Point Iroquois Lighthouse is located near Bay Mills, Michigan, USA
The Point Arena Lighthouse stands tall and proud on the Northern California Mendocino Coast.
This lighthouse was built in 1908 to replace an earlier version after the original brick lighthouse was damaged beyond repair in the Great San Francisco Earthquake.
Constructed of reinforced concrete, this lighthouse was built by a company that specialized in smokestacks, which is why it looks like one.
At 115 feet tall, the Point Arena Lighthouse is the tallest lighthouse on the U.S West Coast (tied with Pigeon Point)
Point Arena is the closest point to Hawaii on the U.S. mainland, which makes this as close as I will probably ever get to Hawaii.
I used a KITE to fly the camera.
The waves were very high and the horizon started to get a little color. I wanted a low angle, where you could see the reds of this mornings sunrise as it started to peek over the horizon. The piers lights added to the ambiance of this mornings sunrise at Fishermans Pier, Point Look Out State Park
Photo was taken by our granddaughter.
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The Market Place at Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire on Monday 11th February 2019.
I am sharing this photo because I wanted to celebrate how wonderfully picturesque and characterful the market town of Beverley is. Sadly for me I only had a couple of hours here but would gladly return, given the opportunity.
Ilford FP4+
Nikon FM2
Nikkor 50mm lens
Epson V600 scanner
Adox (Rodinal), 1+25, 9 minutes, 20º C.
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Weather.
Single flash on the ground pointing straight up at subject.
Some touch-up post using Elements 5
We were lucky that the fog lifted and revealed a beautiful sky and sunset at our last trip to the coast. Taken near Santa Cruz at Pigeon Point Lighthouse, Pescadero, California.
"Bone pointing" is a method of execution used by the Australian Aborigines. It is said to leave no trace, and never fails to kill its victim. The bone used in this curse is either made of either human, kangaroo, emu or even wood.
Before it can be used, the kundela (bone) is charged with a powerful psychic energy in a ritual that is kept secret from women and those who are not tribe members. To be effective, the ritual must be performed faultlessly. The bone is then given to the kurdaitcha, who are the tribe's ritual killers.
These killers then go and hunt (if the person has fled) the condemned. The name, kurdaitcha comes from the slippers they wear while on the hunt. The slippers are made of cockatoo (or emu) feathers and human hair - they virtually leave no footprints. Also, they wear kangaroo hair, which is stuck to their bodies after they coat themselves in human blood and they also don masks of emu feathers. They hunt in pairs or threes and will pursue their quarry for years if necessary, never giving up until the person has been cursed.
The condemned man may live for several days or even weeks. But, he believes so strongly in the curse that has been uttered, that he will surely die.
Truncated expanation courtesy of Wikipedia.
Obviously, a bone that still has a pulse isn't used.
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The barrel cactus is also sometimes called the "compass cactus". As the story goes, if you are lost in the desert and can find one of these (not at all hard to do), you'll be able to determine which direction is south, because that's the way the barrel cactus will be slanting. (I've also seen it more specifically described as southeast.)
I don't carry a compass, so I can't say for sure. But what I do know in this case is that the Rincon Mountains in the background are in the east, so this guy does seem to be pointing south. Maybe even southeast.
Old Point Comfort Lighthouse marks the entrance to historic Hampton Roads, an important harbor situated at the mouths of the James, Nansemond and Elizabeth Rivers, and stands on ground which has seen many a fort constructed nearby to defend this import waterway. The tower’s present neighbor, the Civil-War era Fort Monroe, was preceded by colonial Fort George, which in turn was probably preceded by an even earlier fortification. A navigational beacon on Old Point Comfort was active as early as 1775 when John Dams, caretaker of the ruins at Fort George, was paid an annual supplement of 20 pounds to tend a light there. Some historians believe that Native Americans kept wood fires burning at the Point before that for the benefit of Spanish ships during the 16th century.With the establishment of the United States government and its ensuing lighthouse projects at places like Cape Henry, pressure mounted to build a permanent aid to navigation at Old Point Comfort. An early edition of the American Coast Pilot noted the 1798 law passed by the U.S. Congress that called for a light at Old Point Comfort, and proclaimed: “We wish, for the security of navigation, that the important work may soon be undertaken, for the safety of our mariners.” Between 1800 and 1801 Congress appropriated $5,000 for construction costs, and contracted the services of Elzy Burroughs to complete the octagonal stone structure.
Good morning, everyone! I hope your new year is off to a great start. And if it isn't here is a little Pittsburgh eye candy to help out For those of you that have followed my work for a little while, you may have noticed I like a little symbolism in my photos and I try to come up with creative titles that have double (or triple!) meanings. Today's photo is no different. You all know that the tip of the city at the confluence of the 3 rivers is the point...right? Well that's not where this photo gets it's namesake. Not entirely at least. You'll notice looking at the right corners of the image that there are distinct lines that form triangles (again, one of my favorite compositional elements!) that "point" right to the heart of the city. That's the other point...there's that word again...of motivation for this photo!
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Point Riche lighthouse, near Port au Choix, was built in 1892 and replaced the original 1871 light.. It is 63 feet high. The foundation of the keepers house can be seen to the left, it was destroyed by fire in the late 1970s.
Photographed on Wednesday July 25th, 2007. It is still in use.
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The Milky Way and some fog at Brass Point Bridge.
"A long and narrow steel bridge with wooden decking which incorporates a wooden swing bridge (an unequal arm, center bearing timber swing bridge, one of only four remaining on the Rideau) at the west end. The swing bridge is operated by Parks Canada. This long (148 m / 485 ft) bridge was originally built in 1887. The wooden spans were replaced with steel spans in 1903 and new cribbing was installed in 1978.
This is the only remaining bridge of this type (multi-span with a swing bridge) on the Rideau Canal. There used to be similar bridges at places such as Rideau Ferry, Becketts Landing, Kars and Manotick - those have all been replaced by high level bridges." - Ken W Watson, rideau-info.com