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Built in 1884 but inactive from 1955 to 1997. 66 foot tall cast iron sparkplug type lighthouse, with 3 galleries, 2 upper and 1 lower all built on a concrete caisson. The interior contains a 3 story keeper's quarters. The light signal is a white or red flash, depending on direction, every 6 seconds. Distinguished from other sparkplug type lighthouses in the area by the red dome over the lantern room.
Located at the entrance into the Sakonnet River. Rescued from vandalism and deterioration and restored by an active volunteer group.
This lighthouse is located on Lake Erie and marks the northbound entrance to the Detroit River.
The round cast iron "sparkplug" design tower built in 1885, is 49 feet tall, and has two galleries. The lantern room sits on top of a two story keeper's section and the tower sits on a stone crib with pointed ends to deflect and split ice floes. The tower is attached to a one story fog signal building. The original lens was a 4th order Fresnel, now replaced with a modern optic. The light signal is a white flash every 6 seconds.
Drivetrain in place, the bulky pneumatic exhaust tubes barely squeezing around the engine-bay structures. I did find I have an old Gray rounded 1x4 technic plate to swap out for the transmission mount down in there, and I'm still working on scoring some TLG string with 1x1 plates for the sparkplug caps on the cam covers... Outside of that this area is pretty much done. Can't fit much more in, anyway :)
This build follows the spec of a particular F40 LM which underwent a comprehensive resto-mod, including a dual-wastegate setup and (much) larger intercoolers. It's all well documented here: www.build-threads.com/tag/Ferrari-F40-LM-Restoration/
A schooner enters Portland Harbor, passingthe Spring Point Ledge Light in South Portland, Maine.
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Located just off of Kent Island in the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland.
An early Sparkplug style lighthouse built in 1882 is now privately owned and in desperate need of repair. Damaged in 1960 due to a fire, it was automated in 1961.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, an original book cover(not used in any official capacity) for the Philip K Dick novel of the same name.
12.5x19.5, gouache and ink on cold press watercolor paper
I did this for a charity auction benefiting the family of Dylan Williams, owner of Sparkplug Comics, who sadly died of cancer in September 2011. All proceeds went to help Dylan's family pay his medical bills.
July 29th, 2013
Fall River, Massachusetts
Go like the Lighthouse's facebook page: www.facebook.com/pages/Borden-Flats-Lighthouse/1119406888...
Another shot from the same day. The sky was changing fast so practically every shot we took going around it gave a completely different setting for this magnificent historic beauty. Now, to make it there for a sunset
Information:
"Located at the mouth of the Taunton River, Borden Flats Lighthouse has protected the waters of Mt. Hope Bay and Fall River for well over a century.
During the early days of the industrial revolution, Fall River became known as the world leader in textile productions. The city grew to employ nearly 30,000 textile factory workers and became destination for large steam liners from destination such as Boston and New York.
Due to a large under water reef at the entrance to the Taunton River, a lighted day marker was places atop the obstacle, only to prove obsolete for night commerce.
Congress appropriated funds for the construction of the cast iron, "spark plug" style lighthouse. On October, 1 1881 the lighthouse became active with a fixed red light from a 5th order Fresnel Lens. The lens was later upgraded to a 4th Order Fresnel Lens.
The U.S. Lighthouse Establishment (USLHE) held keepers at the lighthouse until the U.S. Coast Guard was created in 1939. At that point, the USLHE was eliminated and station became staffed by a full time Coast Guard officer.
In an effort to save costs, the lighthouse was fully automated and destaffed in 1963. The Fresnel lens was soon replaced by a 250mm plastic optic with a white flash every 2.5 seconds. Around 1996, the optic was upgraded to the present Vega Rotating Beacon VRB-25, displaying the same flash pattern.
The lighthouse was deemed surplus by the U.S. Coast Guard and was offered through the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act (NHLPA). No entities applied, so it was sold into private ownership in August, 2010.
Today, the lighthouse is undergoing a transformation. After 48-years, the lighthouse once again has a caretaker.
The exterior of the station has undergone a long awaited facelift. By popular demand, the local boating community wanted to see a change in the lighthouse to help make it more visible against the Braga Bridge supports, the city of Fall River and the towers of the Brayton Point plant. The beacon now proudly displays a red lantern roof and red sectional band. The white on the tower was increased to a brighter white. Over all, the lighthouse is highly visible and can even be seen from the Mt. Hope Bay Bridge!"
SOURCE: www.bordenflats.com/
I bought a Super Takumar 200mm lens for display and decided to shoot with it. I found out it only focuses from 12 to 15 inches. Plus some of the elements are dirty. Here are the results.
Kodak pro Image 100 film
Spark plug in abandoned tiller.
The big ND Denso spark plug at Starkey's Bridge, Donington Park. Just after the Old Hairpin after the riders have swooped down Craner Curves. It was a Superbike meeting but which one, I've no idea - it was a long time ago. Yes there are bikes on there so I'm going to take a punt (having zoomed in the best I can) - that looks like a Cadbury's Boost Yamaha in the lead - maybe Niall MacKenzie and there is a rider in a pink helmet in the vicinity so I'm going to guess that that is Steve Hislop - but who knows (or cares). I think the shot is more about the location than the bikes, thankfully. So I would say this was a BSB British Superbikes meeting - not WSB World Superbikes.
I first realised there might have been a photo here last week when I was experimenting but haven't managed to get a result I've liked until now.
I like this :) Especially the vapourised metal shooting off the oven ring after the spark has struck!
Used my macro lens and the full range of extension tubes to get as close as I possibly could to the action then focused manually to get as much of the spark (and secondary sparks) in focus as possible - at f2.8 my DOF was NOT large!
Strobist - YN560II through diffuser lighting the sparkplug and oven hob ring, 1/128th power about 5cm away.
Goodwood Revival 2017
A wonderful weekend of classic cars, racing, rain, and more Fiat 500’s than you can shake a stick at. Classic photo opportunities everywhere!
Today was an absolutely perfect day to be out on the Chesapeake Bay! We left the marina a bit after nine and returned at 3:30! We ventured farther afield than we have before going south and across the bay to the Choptank River and then up the Tred Avon River (which flows into the Choptank) to Oxford, Maryland . A great exercise in planning the route and waypoints. It's amazing to be out on such a huge expanse of water and be almost alone!
There were lots of working boats near Tangier Island running trotlines for blue crabs.
www.bluecrab.info/crabbing/trotline.html
I had not yet seen this lighthouse and was glad to have the chance. The bay was incredibly calm as you can see in this shot. We could not get too close as it's in just a foot or so of water now!
What a wonderful way to spend the day!!
From Wikipedia:
The Sharps Island Light is the third lighthouse to stand nearly 3 miles (5 km) south-southwest from the southern end of Tilghman Island in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay.[2] The structure is best known today for evoking the Leaning Tower of Pisa, a condition caused by an ice floe in 1977.
The first lighthouse was built on Sharps Island in 1838, but due to the island's erosion it was moved in 1848. This was replaced with a screwpile lighthouse in 1866 near the original location of the first structure.[3][4]
The second lighthouse lasted until 1881 when it was forced off its foundations by an ice floe. It floated nearly five miles down the Chesapeake—with its keepers still inside—until it ran aground, allowing the men to escape unharmed.[5]
The current light, a sparkplug lighthouse, was constructed in 1882 with a concrete caisson foundation and a 35-foot (11 m) cast iron tower. The fourth-order Fresnel lens was replaced with a 9.8-inch (250 mm) lens in 1977; the focal plane is 54 feet (16 m) above sea level. The tower includes an integral dwelling and was manned until 1938 when the United States Coast Guard automated the light.[3] Leaning by about 15° since it was ice-damaged in 1977, the structure is picturesque, but in poor condition.
The Sharps Island Light was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (reference # 82002821) on July 22, 1982.[1] It is one of the many historic features along Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail.
It is also on the Lighthouse Digest Doomsday List of endangered lighthouses.[6]
As of 2006, the lighthouse was a candidate for sale under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act.[6][7] It was deactivated in January 2010.[8]
Steve Roe had commented that I should try it in toned B & W and as I was getting around to it I got this one that I like a lot better than the original.
Photo taken through the fog and rain from Stonington, Connecticut (the light is just inside the New York state line); built in 1884.
We had an amazing time on board the Royal Caribbean's Adventure of the Seas on our seven night cruise of New England and Canada (July 27th through August 3rd, 2018). Our first stop was Portland (Maine) and we took the "Lighthouses of Maine" shore excursion. We could not get on the morning excursion, so ours left at 2pm in the afternoon. The timing might have been very optimal as it clouded up a bit and those amazing clouds that contributed to some fantastic pictures. The excursion provided visits to three lighthouses. The Spring Point Ledge Light is a sparkplug lighthouse built in 1897 and located in South Portland. These are pictures taken at the Spring Point Ledge Light include a few of Portland Head Light and the Adventure of the Seas at port. Taken on Sunday July 29th, 2018.
Spring Point Ledge Light is a sparkplug lighthouse in South Portland, Maine that marks a dangerous obstruction on the west side of the main shipping channel into Portland Harbor. It is now adjacent to the campus of Southern Maine Community College.
She moved by quite quickly as schooner-rigged boats are apt to do with barely a list and with no motorized propulsion aboard of her whatsoever – just that tiny captain’s gig she’s towing behind which is used as a push boat in calm harbors with slack tide. Normally, she’s slightly dark forest green, but this year she was almost the color of a midnight walk in the woods. Well known as the queen of the Maine windjammer fleet, she got her graceful name in 1918 after the bells tolled the Armistice ending the First World War.
Between the islands of Vinalhaven & North Haven.
It was warm last evening and I went early to my Portland Camera Club Meeting to take some photos of this lighthouse. There happened to be a ferry passing by. In the foreground is the piled stone breakwater. It is adjacent to what remains of Fort Preble.
Spring Point Ledge Light is a sparkplug lighthouse in South Portland, Maine that marks a dangerous obstruction on the west side of the main shipping channel into Portland Harbor. It is now adjacent to the campus of Southern Maine Community College.
The lighthouse was constructed in 1897 by the government after seven steamship companies stated that many of their vessels ran aground on Spring Point Ledge. Congress initially allocated $20,000 to its construction, although the total cost of the tower ended up being $45,000 due to problems with storms and poor quality cement. The lighthouse featured a fog bell that sounded twice every 12 seconds, and a lantern fitted with a fifth order Fresnel lens first lit by Keeper William A. Lane on May 24, 1897.
Improvements were made to the lighthouse throughout the 20th century. It was electrified in 1934, and in 1951, a 900-foot breakwater made from 50,000 short tons (45,000 t) of granite was constructed in order to connect the lighthouse to the mainland. The lighthouse was originally owned and operated by the United States Coast Guard. However, on April 28, 1998, the Maine Lights Selection Committee approved a transfer of ownership of the tower to the Spring Point Ledge Light Trust, with the USCG retaining only the light and fog signal. (Wikipedia)
Tarrytown Light, also known as Kingsland Point Light and Sleepy Hollow Light, is a sparkplug lighthouse on the east side of the Hudson River in Sleepy Hollow, New York, United States. It a conical steel structure erected in the 1880s. In 1979 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Optimus Prime the Ultimate Lego version designed and built by me. I wanted to change my deluxe model for Brickfete but instead tore it down and started a whole new model.
More info on MOCpages:
www.mocpages.com/moc.php/319913
..and Youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjgZqy3YmRs
Enjoy!
A rainy day travelling thru South Texas...good time to try a Moo-latte. Betty makes a great Mocha Caramel Moo-latte! Yummmmmm
For Wardrobe_remix:
red wellies: Target
purple dress: Wet Seal
navy tee: Talbot's
recycled newspaper purse: WorldofGood.com
spark plug necklace: ME!
It looks like lil' Eddy outfoxed his best friend Cough Drop and traded his prized sparkplug collection for an honest to goodness sammitch! Too bad it's nothin' more than an old sponge and a fist-fulla milkweed, but it's the first real meal Eddy's had in weeks. Eat up, young foop!
Romer Shoal Light
Romer Shoal Light is a sparkplug lighthouse in Lower New York Bay, on the north edge of the Swash Channel, about ³⁄₄ nautical mile south of Ambrose Channel and 2 ¹⁄₂ nautical miles north of Sandy Hook, New Jersey, in the entrance to New York Harbor.
Opened: 1838
Automated: 1966
Height: 54'
Material: Cast iron
For more info: www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=655
Looking up at the top section of Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse on a perfect summer day.
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A nice example of the fast 80s saloon, the Alfa 75, with the classic Alfa Romeo twin cam, 4 cylinder Twin Spark engine, with 2 sparkplugs per cylinder, an engine that was in production for many years, and was a popular alternative, for the ones, who could not afford, or did not have the need, for the legendary Alfa V6 engine :)