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  1. Atlantic Ocean breaks 60-year record for the longest hurricane dry spell

    The Atlantic Ocean broke a six-decade record this year for the longest dry spell without a hurricane, according…
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  2. Atlantic Ocean breaks 60-year record for the longest hurricane dry spell

    The Atlantic Ocean broke a six-decade record this year for the longest dry spell without a hurricane, according…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #AccuWeather #AtlanticOcean #ExtremeWeather #hurricanes #Science #Storms #USNews
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  3. Sunrise

    I kicked off my Labor Day early this morning by driving out to the ocean and taking some sunrise pics. I went to Salisbury Beach on the Massachusetts side of the MA/NH state line and caught the actual sunrise. After that I drove over to Plum Island. I usually turn left when I cross the bridge onto the island and go to the lighthouse. This time I turned right and went to the Parker River Wildlife Refuge. There is a beach on the ocean there and hiking trails through the salt marshes just inland from the Atlantic. 

    There were a lot of people at Salisbury watching the sun. More than I’ve ever come across on one of these little trips. It was probably because the sun came up at 6:14am or so. The last time I did a sun rise visit I think the sun came up just after 5:00. Big difference. The only people on the Plum Island beach were a middle aged couple who were clearly on a date. I tried very hard not to draw attention to myself and thus distract them from what I’m sure was a lovely morning. The trails I walked on had a bunch of people too but they were all using binoculars while I was using cameras. They were bird watching. 

    I took some digital pics with my Z5, I took some 35mm with my N90, and I took some 120 with my Lubitell. I shipped the film out for developing today along with three rolls I shot in August. Will I get the scans back before we leave for California next weekend? Not likely, but I’ll chose optimism and say I hope so.

    For now… digital pics.

    We start with Salisbury Beach and the start of Labor Day 2026.

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    And there we have it. My morning pics. The highlights of the digital pics at least. The full album is here on Flickr. When I get the scans back I’ll add them to the album. Hopefully I’ll have them by the end of the week so I don’t have to rely on a hotel’s wifi to upload them. Fingers crossed.

    #AtlanticOcean #Massachusetts #NewEngland #nikonZ5 #photography #Sunrise
  4. Hype for the Future 247/284: Maryland’s Eastern Shore

    Introduction The Eastern Shore of the State of Maryland is a notable area east of the Susquehanna River and Chesapeake Bay in the State of Maryland and is most commonly associated with Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne’s, Caroline, Talbot, Dorchester, Wicomico, Somerset, and Worcester Counties. While Kent County is associated with the extreme southwestern portion of the Greater Philadelphia area, the more southerly counties of the State of Maryland are associated with rural communities and larger […]

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  5. Huge Photo Walk

    I went on an epic photographing journey today. I went to two locations and I walked something like four miles. Who even am I?

    I paid for it with chores though. The cellar has been put back together after twice being blown off by a contractor. I won’t say it is “clean” but I will say it is drastically “cleaner” and that’s good enough for me. Speaking of contractors, yet another is scheduled to come by tomorrow to fix a piece of broken furniture in my step son’s room. Along with cleaning the cellar, I got everything ready for that too. Now it’s time to post some photos and then its time to nap. 

    I had a bunch on my photo to-do list this morning. One, shoot the sunrise (which required me getting out of bed at 4:00am and being on the road toward Hampton Beach, NH by 4:20… yikes!). Two put a roll of 35mm film through my new (to me) Nikon N90. Three, complete the Frugal Film Project for this month. Four, use the crap out of the 70–210mm zoom lens I got with the N90 on my Nikon Z5 via the FTZii adapter that I mistakenly called the F2Zii adapter in a post yesterday. Five, if possible finish off the roll of film in my Nikon FG-20 that’s been sitting there since March or so. In all five cases, mission accomplished.

    I did not ship out the film for developing yet. I am planning on taking the N90 to my nephew’s high school graduation party next week (CONGRATULATIONS!!!!) and I might try to sneak in a second photowalk next Sunday too, if the weather cooperates. I’ll wait until after that to ship out the film. As usual, the day of blog post is only digital photos. Unlike all of my previous posts with images shot on my Z5, this one has a zoom lens. Not only a zoom lens, but a 70–210mm zoom lens!

    First stop, Hampton Beach where the sky was completely clear and I saw the sun come out of the water. Success!

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    I drove up the coast a ways to get a different view. This time from way up a hill. The tide was so far out you had to walk half way to France to get to the water. It kinda took some of the granduer out of it for me. Oh well.

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    The next stop was the two Rail Trails in Newburyport, MA. One is called Clipper, I think, and the other is called Harbor… I think. The plan was to shoot film while walking away from the car, and then to shoot digital while walking back. So these first shorts are on the Harbor trail after I turned around. The sun reflecting off the water was kinda brutal. My Z5 and N90 both had fast enough shutter speeds to handle it, but my FG-20 and my Lomo Lubitell were struggling. I’m a tiny bit nervous about how some of those shots are going to turn out. 

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    And there you have it. A shit load of pointless pics that I had a lot of fun taking. The film version will come… someday… maybe.

    #AtlanticOcean #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photography #photowalk
  6. Photos

    It’s been a while but I did something mildly creative this morning. Not really, but a little bit.

    For the first time since August I filled up a back pack with cameras and went outside a-shootin’. Digital, film, the works.

    More often than not when I start feeling the photo-takin’ need I head to the ocean at sunrise. That’s what I did today. As sunrises go it sort of blew chunks. The forecast I read last night said it would be clear skies at sunrise today. It was not. Not even close. There was a little gap between the horizon and the cloud cover that sort of let me see the sun when it rose, but it was a pretty underwhelming view. Thanks to our friend the Nikon Z5 with the cheap-ish 85mm Chinese made lens I can show you what I’m talking about…

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    At least the waves looked cool. They were about as high as this little corner of the Atlantic Ocean gets.

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    There’s our friend, Mr Sun. It was trying its best to break through.

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    My sunrise stop this morning was at Salisbury Beach which is on the Massachusetts side of the state line. I was planning on starting at Hampton Beach in New Hampshire, but I needed to stop for gas and I knew there were a few stations on the way to Salisbury so I wouldn’t have to go out of my way. Also, Salisbury is closer to home so it gave me more time to take care of things before the sun came up.

    After a few minutes on the beach I wandered around the area a little bit looking for things to shoot… and I ended up more or less shooting the same things that I almost always shoot when I go there. Oh well.

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    Someday I will be there when these lights are actually on.

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    Artsy chair pic alert:

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    Lame life preserver pic alert:

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    Every now and then the sun would break through the clouds and we’d get a few seconds of glorious golden hour light but the clouds kept getting in the way and blocking the sun. It was a little frustrating.

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    After a few minutes of wandering around I got in the car and drove up to Hampton Beach. That’s two towns North across the New Hampshire state line. I stopped at a usual fishing boat view. Again, the sun kept breaking through and going away. I think I got some good light here using one of the film cameras, but not so much using the digital.

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    As usual, let’s all say hello to the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plan before it blows up and melts everyone.

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    Out on the beach itself, would it surprise anyone to learn that this pic was a total accident? It probably shouldn’t.

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    The seagulls were my friends today. They mostly didn’t run away from me.

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    Again, when the sun cooperated the view was fantastic.

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    I left Hampton Beach and headed South to Plum Island to say hello to the Merrimack River and the Plum Island Lighthouse. I made the obligatory stop at the airfield as well.

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    By this time the sky was pretty blue. The clouds were losing the battle.

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    Is the water at Plum Island the bluest water on Earth? It’s gotta be in the running, right?

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    I mean… seriously… just look at that.

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    I don’t know anything about this boat except that I shoot it every time I come here.

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    And in closing… the Plum Island Lighthouse… which has to be the most underwhelming lighthouse in the world. I mean it’s not even as tall as the trees that surround it. It’s also not even on the water. It’s a little ways down the street from the river. How effective can it be?

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    There you have it. A few highlights from this morning’s wanderings. I also shot some film. I had a black and white roll in my FG-20 that was loaded back in August and still had a few shots left (Kentmere 400). Last night I put a roll of Lomography 800 into Dad’s K1000 and a roll of Kodak Gold 200 into my medium format camera. I finished all three rolls and mailed them off to the lab to get them developed. Hopefully I won’t have to wait too long to share the film version of this masterpiece of a post. Be on the lookout.

    Will there be another photowalk tomorrow? Depends on the weather. I am off work again on Tuesday too so there could be something then, again if the weather cooperates. Hopefully it will be better than today but who knows.

    It felt good to just go outside and shoot stuff, even if it was really cold on the water. Summer is coming. Maybe some day soon I’ll be able to repeat this experience without wearing a winter jacket. That would be sweet, huh?

    #AtlanticOcean #merrimackRiver #nikonZ5 #photography #photowalk
  7. The Beach Inspector

    Garylucas Beach in Co Cork was hit by 40kph winds this afternoon, with tall waves crashing on the beach. I took a few photos but retreated to the car as it was so cold. Within minutes the wind had ripped right through me. Luckily,...

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    #AtlanticOcean #BeachPhotography #CoastalBirds #Cork #CountyCork #Garrettstown #GarrylucasBeach #Ireland #IrishCoast #Photo #Photography #seagull #waves #WestCork #WildlifePhotography

  8. The Beach Inspector

    Garylucas Beach in Co Cork was hit by 40kph winds this afternoon, with tall waves crashing on the beach. I took a few photos but retreated to the car as it was so cold. Within minutes the wind had ripped right through me.

    Luckily, gulls are protected somewhat from the cold by their feathers and this gull stood in the water without a care in the world for several minutes.


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    #AtlanticOcean #beachPhotography #coastalBirds #Cork #CountyCork #Garrettstown #GarrylucasBeach #Ireland #IrishCoast #Photo #Photography #seagull #waves #WestCork #wildlifePhotography
  9. Faro de Tostón during Blue Hour

    We visited the lighthouse at Faro de Tostón just before sunset. Lots of low cloud threatened to hide the sunset but fortunately a gap was left just above the horizon so we got a lovely glow and even after-sunset luminescence that provided some interesting silhouettes in the sky.

    This shot came about just before I got in the car and left. It was pitch dark. I could barely see anything, but I’m happy with the way this came out. A couple of days ago I saw drone shots of the rocks behind it where a small yacht had run aground.

    I suspect the light in the background is actually the glow from Playa Blanca in Lanzarote, or it might be Urb. Origo Mare, but apparently that resort shut its doors permanently last year. Interesting comments here too. It’s had a chequered past.


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    #astrophotography #AtlanticOcean #blueHourPhotography #CanaryIslands #ElCotillo #FaroDeTostón #FuerteventuraLighthouse #lighthousePhotography #nightPhotography #Photo #Photography #stars #travelPhotography
  10. Hype for the Future 65F: Historic City of Saint Augustine, Florida

    Introduction Though Saint Augustine was not settled as part of British Colonial America but as part of New Spain in early European imperialism, the community of Saint Augustine has since been transformed by the Flagler heritage representative of the entirety of the modern State of Florida, and especially Northern Florida. History Founded by the Spanish in 1565, Saint Augustine has largely been identified by the iconic structures associated with the community, including the Ponce de León […]

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  11. Standing in the sand on Miami Beach was a feast for the senses and a high point in my life. A rainstorm was coming and it would be raining that night. This was my view in the late afternoon. The smell of the air and the sound of the waves was tremendous!

    Surf, Sunrays and Clouds can be purchased here -
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