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Here’s the first installment of a self-assigned odyssey that’s going to light up my Flickr photostream. We spent a week at the hottest camping spot on the North Shore, Shipwreck Creek Campground at Split Rock Lighthouse State Park in Minnesota. These shots will take you on a wild ride through the south side of the North Shore, hitting Taconite Harbor, Tettegouche State Park, Palisade Head, Gooseberry Falls State Park, and a bungled attempt to capture an abandoned Air Force radar base near Finland. And of course, the legendary Split Rock Lighthouse State Park. The North-North Shore trip is already on the drawing board, so expect more madness in the coming months.
The first shot is the iconic Split Rock Lighthouse. It’s a classic money shot that everyone tries, but few nail with the finesse it deserves. Here’s hoping I did it justice.
Samostan i župa Gospe od Zdravlja Gospa od Zdravlja - Trg Gaje Bulata - Split - Dalmatia - Hrvatska / Croatia
Split is the capital and largest city in Split-Dalmatia County, Dalmatia, and Adriatic Croatia and the largest city on the Eastern Adriatic, while it is the 2nd largest city in Croatia. It lies on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea and is spread over a central peninsula and its surroundings. An intraregional transport hub and popular tourist destination, the city is linked to the Adriatic islands and the Apennine Peninsula.
The city was founded as the Greek colony of Aspálathos (Greek: Aσπάλαθος) in the 3rd or 2nd century BC on the coast of the Illyrian Dalmatae, and later on was home to Diocletian's Palace, built for the Roman emperor in AD 305. It became a prominent settlement around 650 when it succeeded the ancient capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia, Salona. After the sack of Salona by the Avars and Slavs, the fortified Palace of Diocletian was settled by Roman refugees. Split became a Byzantine city. Later it drifted into the sphere of the Republic of Venice and the Kingdom of Croatia, with the Byzantines retaining nominal suzerainty. For much of the High and Late Middle Ages, Split enjoyed autonomy as a free city of the Dalmatian city-states, caught in the middle of a struggle between Venice and Croatia for control over the Dalmatian cities.
Venice eventually prevailed and during the early modern period Split remained a Venetian city, a heavily fortified outpost surrounded by Ottoman territory. Its hinterland was won from the Ottomans in the Morean War of 1699, and in 1797, as Venice fell to Napoleon, the Treaty of Campo Formio rendered the city to the Habsburg Monarchy. In 1805, the Peace of Pressburg added it to the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy and in 1806 it was included in the French Empire, becoming part of the Illyrian Provinces in 1809. After being occupied in 1813, it was eventually granted to the Austrian Empire following the Congress of Vienna, where the city remained a part of the Austrian Kingdom of Dalmatia until the fall of Austria-Hungary in 1918 and the formation of Yugoslavia. In World War II, the city was annexed by Italy, then liberated by the Partisans after the Italian capitulation in 1943. It was then re-occupied by Germany, which granted it to its puppet Independent State of Croatia. The city was liberated again by the Partisans in 1944, and was included in the post-war Socialist Yugoslavia, as part of its republic of Croatia. In 1991, Croatia seceded from Yugoslavia amid the Croatian War of Independence.
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Split is the second-largest city of Croatia and the largest city of the region of Dalmatia, with about 300,000 people living in its urban area. It lies on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea and is spread over a central peninsula and its surroundings.
Another lovely lighthouse we found along the Great Ocean road.Split point lighthouse at Aireys Inlet , Victoria Australia.
splitted sky sunset (blue & yellow) / Sonnenuntergang in Staufenberg (Niedersachsen)
geteilter Himmel (blau & gelb)
The dark haired Bergdorf look=alike Split Decision Poppy - unfortunately taken in not brilliant light, but her similarity to Bergdorf is stunning nonetheless.
Split Rock Lighthouse, Lake Superior North Shore, Minnesota
After a storm on Nov. 28, 1905 had damaged 29 ships, Congress authorized $70,000 to build a lighthouse and fog signal at Split Rock. The light station was completed in 1910.
The light was taken out of service in 1969 when modern navigation methods made it obsolete, but the beacon is lit once a year on November 10th to commemorate the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Learn More about the history of the Split Rock light.
Split Rock Lighthouse on Lake Superior. Windy day, I lowered the ND Grad filter until the gray covered the whole frame, to extend the exposure in mid-afternoon, hence the blur in the waves. f25, 1/5sec, 22mm.
....on why she insists on 'helping' me with my photography projects. Anything for attention, she begged to get involved with a macro project I was setting up the light tent for. She ended up being a subject too and actually got inside the tent! :) Funny look on her face, like as if she is bored..but I know better.
I used a red velour background, daylight bulbs outside of box (left and top) and remote flash SB-600 (outside on right), commander pop up flash at front. Tweaked in Lightroom 3 using an 'aged photo' preset and playing a little with HSL and split toning to get the right feel to go with her mood:)