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A little backwards! Sunrise, backlit through the Fresnel Lens...
Hillsboro Inlet Lighthouse ~ Hillsboro Beach, Florida U.S.A.
(six more photos of 'this lighthouse' in the comments)
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Hillsboro Inlet Light is located on the north side of Hillsboro Inlet, midway between Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton, in Hillsboro Beach, Florida. The light marks the northern limit of the Florida Reef, an underwater coral formation on the lower east coast of the state.
In 1901, the United States Lighthouse Establishment persuaded Congress to authorize the construction of a lighthouse in the dark area between Jupiter Inlet Light and Fowey Rocks Light. In the second half of the 20th century, this inlet became an increasingly busy waterway. Hillsboro Inlet Light is considered one of the most powerful lights in the world with a beam that can be seen for 28 nautical miles (32 mi). The octagonal iron pyramidal tower was built at Russel Wheel & Foundry Co in Detroit, Michigan, moved to the Hillsboro Inlet Light Station in 1906, and lit on March 7, 1907. Its second-order bivalve Fresnel lens emits a light measuring 5.5 megacandelas and is placed 136 feet above sea level. Automated in 1974, the light acts both as a coastal navigational aide and as a support to local water traffic.
The light was relit in 2000, with 400 pounds of mercury replaced by a specially designed ball-bearing assembly. In 2003, Hillsboro Inlet Light was honored with a 37¢ U.S. postage stamp. Flashes at 20 sec.
Hillsboro Inlet, Florida
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsboro_Inlet_Light
Amazing Florida Lighthouses
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You can't get much worse lighting than this -- one panel in full sunlight, the other in shadow. I shot some bracketed exposures and now I'm playing with Enfuse (via Bracketeer) and Gimp to get both in a single (HDR) image. Now that it's on Flickr it looks a bit oversharpened (Flickr seems to apply sharpening to the smaller sized images it creates) so I reserve the right to try again once I'm home and have PhotoShop and a monitor I trust more than this one. Best viewed at least large, and you can see additional detail in the original although the image alignment Bracketeer uses makes for a somewhat soft image.
As for the panel, this is high above the canyon floor, at the top of a tall and steep talus slope. Tall and steep enough that we didn't get all the way up, we picked the wrong path and got to a point where the ground was too lose to continue. And climbing up here is what made the sole of Amy's boot come off. So rather than try and find a different way we found a spot stable enough to stand and took photos from there.
Due to long-term poor health I'm unable to take on new contacts but do my best to reply to comments. Thank you so much for your interest, comments and favours on my photostream. Also for your good wishes. I send you joy and peace.
“O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” ~ Roman Payne
With the unconventional inclusion of a spiked metal fence! HFF
After a cold and dark night, a strange light came into my morning. Golden-pink, soft yellow hues; blinding and beautiful, as it filters through dawn's translucent curtains, merging with the dying darkness until all is engulfed in light and wiping away my deepest gloom.
Sunlight.......................
ODC - strange light
There was a moment when the light and the darkness were only divided by the breathing of the morning wind. A glowing blanket, clean and ineffable, was on its way down from the sky to the land. I was just sitting on a boulder, the camera in my hands, to wait for my turn to be touched by the golden light.
Toccando la luce
C'era un momento in cui la luce e il buio stavano divisi soltanto dal respiro del vento del mattino. Una coperta di luce, netta ed ineffabile, stava scendendo dal cielo verso la terra. Io me ne stavo seduto su una roccia, con la macchina fotografica fra le mani, attendendo a mia volta di essere toccato dalla luce color dell'oro.
We had quite a lot of rain the recent days and the weather forecast says it will rain for the couple next days continously. But on Tuesday evening the sun was shining and I decided to do some sunset shots in Frankfurt. I started at the "Flößerbrücke", a one way bridge for cars and pedestrians east of Downtown Frankfurt, than took a few shots at the old bridge which is some hundred meters west of the "Flößerbrücke" and ended up again from where I started. I took some cool shots of the sunset and afterwards during the blue hour from different angles and different times, but the subject is pretty much the same. I will upload those images the next days as a new series to show, how different the skyline of Frankfurt can look during this change of light.
Have a great rest of the week, folks.
"Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad;
let the sea resound, and all that is in it.
12 Let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them;
let all the trees of the forest sing for joy.
13 Let all creation rejoice before the Lord, for he comes,
he comes to judge the earth.
He will judge the world in righteousness
and the peoples in his faithfulness." Psalm 96
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