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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.
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The Point Betsie Lighthouse, Benzie County's most famous landmark, is located on the Lake Michigan shore of the county just south of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and just north of Frankfort, Michigan. Point Betsie is the second most photographed lighthouse in the USA, and likely the most visited attraction in Benzie County. Watching the sunsets from Point Betsie is a long-standing tradition.
* Point Betsie marks the southern entrance to the Manitou Passage.
* This point of land was originally known by the French as "Point Aux Bec Scies," meaning "sawed beak point".
* The lighthouse was built in 1858 at a cost of $5000.
* The life saving station that was built in 1875 cost $3000.
* The light sits 52 feet above the lake and has a range of 27.5 miles.
* The original lens in the light is a fourth-order Fresnel (Fre'-nel) in a bull's-eye arrangement.
* The lighthouse has had many keepers over 106 years until automated in 1983.
* The automated light now in use utilizes a plastic lens.
* National Register Status: LISTED; Reference #84001375. (See National Register of Historical Places - Benzie County)
--from Friends of Point Betsie Lighthouse
Well, I don't know if this is the second most photographed lighthouse in the US (they never site or qualify their statement). Just off the top of my head, I'm pretty sure Split Rock Lighthouse in Minnesota is more popular, and Split Rock might be "the one", but one would think that some picturesque lighthouse in Maine or somewhere else along the Eastern seaboard would qualify as more-photographed. Point Betsie *is* extremely accessible, though, which goes a long way in allowing many, many people to see it. Hm... who knows?
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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.
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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.
Sunrise at Nugget Point Lighthouse, Caitlins, New Zealand.
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Wharf on the Paramatta River route. I shot these photos while waiting for a ride back to the city. For more photos go to www.leoweitzephotography.com
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
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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
"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.
This was taken last month during the first snow at Point Betsie. Ice was beginning to form...it didn't last.
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.
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.
Newfoundland and Labrador
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
Mark Dalzell modeling the handsome Olympus Stylus 35mm point and shoot camera.
Discussed on....Film Photography Podcast - Episode 96 – February 1, 2014
The internet radio show for people who love to shoot film! Interview with Louise Contino – Picturing Wanteete Project, 35mm Point & Shoot Cameras, Olympus Stylus Review, 35mm Point & Shoot Camera Giveaway and Lots More!!!
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Canon EOS Rebel Ti 35mm slr camera
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM lens
Fuji Pro 400H color film
This is a panoramic of point Lynas Anglesey.
I took this on my Canon 550D
Focal length 10 mm.
F-8 exposure 1/125.
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The thunderstorms had been following us all day, we got out to Dead Horse Point just in time for the boomers to start. At about the same time, the sun dropped just below the cloud layer and the lighting was intense.
There were a few other fools out there besides us, and some of them actually thought it was funny when our hair started standing straight up. One guy said something about being a human lightning rod, and when the rest of us beat it for cover under the metal roof, he was still out there on the point.
Dumb as it was, I had to keep venturing out from under the cover because the light was un-freakin-believable as the storms swept through. Every time lightning would strike down below, I could feel it in my scalp before I heard it, a very weird sensation. When they were mostly overhead, there was a continuous buzzing like an old-fashioned alarm clock going off, it was the electrical charge finding ground via the metal roof right over our heads.
We shouldn't have stayed out there at all. I've seen lightning do some freaky things, like going to ground (sea, actually) through a hydrophone staff and blowing the hydrophone apart but leaving everything else untouched. Or taking multiple paths through a piece of instrumentation, leaving fused metal and components in it's wake. Or striking a dead tree, finding ground through our electric fence (and the fusebox in the house), and leaving a charge in the punky tree that left it glowing blue for days afterward.
It was dumb to stay out there.
But we got the photos.
So I'll be putting up a few more, because they came out well, and if you risk your life a little to get a photo, you probably oughtta post it.
My 2nd use of focus stacking in Photoshop. Thanksgiving Day hike through Marshy Point Nature Center in Chase, Maryland
Here's another shot from sunrise at Kittery Point in Maine. Venus can be seen here in the sky.
I've been away from Flickr for a bit. Hope everyone is doing well and I will have to see what everyone has been posting lately.
If you live in the Boston area, some of my photos will be on display at an exhibit in the bookstore at UMass Boston next week, from December 6-10. It will be with other artwork from other artists.
Nikon D50
Nikon 17-35mm f/2.8 @ 17mm
ISO 200
Exposure: 79.3 sec
Aperture: f/8
Filters: Tiffen Circular Polarizer, Lee GND 0.9 + 0.6