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South Stack Lighthouse, Anglesey.
South Stack is set in a spectacular location to the north-west of Holyhead. The lighthouse acts as a waymark for coastal traffic and a landmark and orientation light for vessels crossing the Irish Sea to and from the ports of Holyhead and Dun Laoghaire.
History of the lighthouse
In 1645 when lighthouses were privately owned, King Charles II was petitioned for a patent to build a lighthouse on South Stack. The request was refused. However, 143 years after the original petition, Trinity House leased South Stack island and construction of the lighthouse commenced. On 9 February 1809, the station's oil lamps, designed by Daniel Alexander at a cost of £12,000, were first lit. In 1828 an iron suspension bridge was built to replace the rope catwalk that originally linked the lighthouse to the bottom of the 400 steps down the cliff face.
This was one of the many changes that have taken place at South Stack since 1809. The lights regularly became more efficient and in 1938 electric power replaced the oil that powered the lamps. In 1964 the iron bridge was taken down and a new one of aluminium was put up in its place.
The lighthouse was automated in 1984, and the keepers withdrawn. Today, the lighthouse is monitored and controlled by computer link from Trinity House Operations Centre in Harwich, Essex.
Materials from a school project in Evesham. Photos taken by students through the town and along the river were merged using the Focus Stacking tools in Photoshop. They were then printed out for use in a giant collage.
this beautifully built stacked stone fireplace is actually an exterior fireplace that is part of a patio setting. What a great way to warm a cold winter night by just sitting outside wrapped in a blanket with your loved one and enjoying the flicker of firelight.
It's my first stack of twos, to be used as my spending money from now on. No star notes, but they are consecutive serial numbers from Minneapolis. Strangely enough, Where's George? shows that nearly half of all the two's in their system come from Minneapolis.
This is another one from Saturday taken at Castlemartin. I have to say I was extremely grateful there was no firing going on !! What amazing views.
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i made lots
i got up at 5.30am whilst on holiday one day to go to the cove and stack. The peace and tranquility was immense.
i built a set of 18 stacks in perfect alignment across the cove. unfortunately 18 sacks in a single line don't photograph well. they looked bloody brilliant though. as you walked in and out of the alignment you either saw one or a mass of stacks.
inspired by the master bebalance www.flickr.com/photos/rocker/sets/72157602341391436/ i tried counterbalancing stones. it made for more delicately balanced stacks.
i am going to upload the rest of the photos later. there are far too many but feel i have to put them all up.
Copies of "A Comprehensive Dual Bibliography of James P. Blaylock & Tim Powers", after I glued the Pirate's Gold coins on the covers.
A stack of boxes containing what else but the new Harry Potter books! There they sat behind the counter, just waiting to be bought and enjoyed.
New game from Double Fine coming to Xbox LIVE Arcade and PlayStation Network.
Find out more about the game and watch the first trailer, here.
Stacks
Accession No. 20110219S / 02-19-2011 / Digital
Smoke stacks atop the Biological Research & Diagnostics (BiRD) facility, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
The uniformly clouded sky hung like a middle gray backdrop behind the stacks and they practically begged to be photographed! Like a small, close-knit family, the individuals seem to crowd together for safety against a tall, slender father figure who has braced himself for a coming storm. I enjoy anthropomorphizing objects in my surroundings through photography.
Equipment: Sony A700 camera, Sigma 75-300mm f/4-5.6 APO lens.
This is an experiment with focus stacking using the "CombineZ5" software. Works very good as I think. This image has a rather small size; couldn't get larger ones than 1600 pixels to work.
Admittedly, this image is dull. But I like the quality.
Very promising technique, but requires a tripod (at least if I do it).
Setup:
- Konica-Minolta Dynax 5D on a tripod
- Cosina 100mm f/3.5 macro lens without 1:1 adapter (it's 1:3 or something)
- Wireless flash Minolta HS-3600(D) from low left
- ISO 100, 1/250, f8, manual program
Stacked image from only two different shots. One with focus on the leaf, one with focus on the whatever-it's-called-english.
Look at the master of macro's photos: Lord V's Photostream
The magnificent mandibled Megachile pugnata. Look how long and wide those mandibles are. Its not clear to me why this species requires much longer mandibles than others, it appears to not be cutting out larger pieces of leaves for its nests, but perhaps it is the type, processing and location of the leaf material that is important. Specimen came from the National Arboretum in Washington D.C. where it was foraging on some sort of wild sunflower...it specializes on composites and sunflowers are one if its favorites. Picture by Hannah Sutton.
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Photography Information: Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
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A focus stacked photo of a Broad-palmed Frog (Litoria latopalmata). I like the effect of focus stacking, but my camera cannot do it with the flash turned on. Therefore, I am left to try on frogs I find in the day.
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