Beacon Yard, Boston
In 2012. It’s gone now, along with the Framingham-Chelsea Produce Local, and the nearest somewhat busy freight yard (in Framingham) has scaled back its operations. So, because I live in the city and don’t drive, I don’t have all that many freight pics. I might become more motivated and start taking day trips to Haverhill and Ayer…when the summer’s over.
Oxnop Beacon.
Overlooking Swaledale.
Brecon Beacons and Mynydd Du camp
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Sentinel
“Rules!!? We don’t need no steenking rules.”
On occasion, rules do seem to have their place. A good rule of thumb for landscape photography is to find a strong foreground element to work with. I think Bodie Island Lighthouse is somewhat of a strong foreground element… what do you think?
Joyce and I had a fun weekend with a couple of young ladies who have never been to North Carolina’s Outer Banks. They’re international students at Duke University. As a landscape photographer — who knows the Outer Banks like the back of his hand — it is so sweet to see such discovery through their eyes. They found their whirlwind weekend here quite fascinating.
They had fun at the beach at Kitty Hawk, toured the Wright Brothers Memorial at First Flight, petted stingrays at the North Carolina Aquarium at Roanoke Island, rode the strand of dunes along Highway 12, watched the antics of aquatic turtles at the Pea Island Preserve, and ate so much excellent seafood. A tour of the Outer Banks is incomplete without seeing Bodie Island Lighthouse in all its glory. The last of that day’s sunshine reached out over the maritime forest and bathed the lighthouse in its warmth. That sunset is reflected in its lantern room some 150-feet overhead. Within minutes here, the Sun would set below the horizon, and only the high clouds in these storms would find its light… and we watched as it fired off its beacon for the first time that evening, a sentinel to keep watch just as it has most every night since 1872. Its light reaches out 18-miles throughout the darkness over the Atlantic to save the lost… that’ll preach.
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Reflections
Reflections in the pond at Craig Y Nos Country Park, Bannau Brycheiniog.
Death Valley Days
Manly Beacon, Red Cathedral and the barely visible temporary "lake" is visible from the Golden Canyon hike.
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Een van de laatste keren dat RFO 193 627 in het prachtige Railogix kleedje gefotografeerd kon worden was op 3 Maart 2024 op de Betuweroute te Valburg. Nog geen anderhalve maand later zal de lok retour gan naar MRCE (dat dan inmiddels door Beacon Rail overgenomen is) en in anoniem zwart verdergaan.
Waiting to Walk
I came across these cuties waiting for their walker yesterday on Beacon Street.
In the darkness, a single red tulip stands like a beacon of defiant beauty.
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A photographers dream scenery...
The sanded Sct. Laurentii Church is located south of Skagen in the plantation area east of the main road. The church was probably built at the end of the 14th century. At the time, the church was the largest in Vendsyssel.
When the sand drift began in the 16th century, however, it became more and more difficult for the congregation to dig their way to the church when there was to be a service. The battle against the sand lasted until 1795, when the church was closed down by order of King Christian VII. The nave itself was demolished and used in other construction projects, but the tower was spared and used as a beacon.
Today the tower is listed and after investigations in 1994, the location of the nave and sacristy is now marked in the terrain with red stakes. The old cemetery wall is also marked.