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Photographing the Split Rock Lighthouse in the fall is a mesmerizing experience. As the vibrant autumn leaves paint the landscape in hues of gold, red, and orange, the lighthouse stands as a majestic sentinel overlooking Lake Superior. The crisp, cool air and the clear, serene waters provide the perfect backdrop for capturing the timeless beauty of this iconic landmark. This photo illustrates the dramatic sunset illuminating the sky and casting of an orange tone on the clouds crossing at an opposite diagonal. Fall is undoubtedly one of the most enchanting seasons to explore and photograph the Split Rock Lighthouse. This photo was inspired from Greg Lundgren's Split Rock Lighthouse Reflection. If you like the image, then check out the back story Split Rock Lighthouse Reflection. Note: This is best viewed on a HDR monitor.
Split, historically known as Spalato, is the second-largest city of Croatia, after the capital Zagreb, the largest city in Dalmatia and the largest city on the Croatian coast. It lies on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea.
The Split Rock Lighthouse was erected in the early 20th century as the result of a terrible storm that devastated around 30 ships.
The lighthouse and grounds are open to the public via a fee through the Minnesota Historical Society. During the fall, the views of the lighthouse heading east on Highway-61 were quite spectacular - even on this blustery late afternoon!
Granite boulder split in half near Glen Innes, NSW.
This type of splitting or weathering usually occurs in this area through the ingress of moisture/water into cracks at the top of the boulder. Because it is a very cold area in winter, the water freezes and expands and this cycle repeated over and over during eons eventually opens up the cracks larger and larger, each time to a bit more water and then a bit more expansion as the water freezes. In time, it just goes snap. This type of weathering is not uncommon in granite regions like this.
Split Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse located in Aireys Inlet, a small town on the Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia..
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Originally called Eagles Nest Point, the lighthouse was constructed in 1891. It was converted to automatic operation in 1919..
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The original British-made first order Fresnel lens is still in use. However, the factory in Birmingham, where the lens was built, was bombed during war-time and the essential formula for making the unique lens crystal were lost, should a replacement ever be needed..
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A Japanese firm, consulted by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, estimated the cost of replacing the lens at more than A$1 million..
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Under standard Australian lighthouse convention, red filters would usually be placed to the extreme left and right of the beam (indicating "danger zones" for a passing ship, in-line with the jagged coastline). For reasons unknown, the Split Point Lighthouse operated for many years under the opposite system; although this has now been corrected. Split point lighthouse has 132 stairs from bottom to top and is 34 metres tall.
For the Flickr Friday group . This weeks theme; "Split"
Remembering the British comedian Harry Worth. Part of the opening credits to his 1960's BBC show "Here's Harry" would feature Harry walking up to the corner of a shop window and performing the 'splits' which would make him look as if he were levitating.
Here's my daughter performing " A Harry Worth."
Been pacing around in circles for hours now.
Running on it's own again Union Pacific 6312 takes one hundred and seven loads of corn from Savage, Minnesota through the farmland of the California Delta, as it blasts through Devries and Kingdon Road. The train is about an hour into it's final leg of it's cross country journey, as it heads to JD Heiskell's elevator outside of Pixley, California.
This train started it's trip for the West Coast on the thirteen running all the way to North Platte, Nebraska before becoming the rear end of the GSGAKE 15, in a masterful PSR demonstration of combining unit trains together to save on crews. Fortunately for me, due to the train needing a large piece of real-estate and a fair amount of time to get split up, Union Pacific chose to route this train down the dormant Sacramento Subdivision. Other than BNSF run through traffic, which was miserably absent, and a single local on Saturdays, this gave the crew all the time they needed to get the train split up and not jam up Roseville.
This train and a few other have a companion video available, follow the rabbit hole here: youtu.be/dw8iagTv9HY