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  • San Franciso and the Golden Gate Bridge, seen from the Marin Headlands.  Even though a relatively "green" city in a state that pays attention to night lighting, San Francisco is largely not different than an large urban area and puts out a lot of light into the night, creating a night light environment of its own.
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  • San Franciso and the Golden Gate Bridge, seen from the Marin Headlands.  Even though a relatively "green" city in a state that pays attention to night lighting, San Francisco is largely not different than an large urban area and puts out a lot of light into the night, creating a night light environment of its own.
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  • Chicago glows in the night as clouds drift in off the lake.  The cities pattern of streets, which shows up so distinctly at night, is unusually rigid and the core city area is lit almost entirely with sodium vapor lamps.
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  • Chicago glows in the night as clouds drift in off the lake.  The cities pattern of streets, which shows up so distinctly at night, is unusually rigid and the core city area is lit almost entirely with sodium vapor lamps.
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  • San Franciso and the Golden Gate Bridge, seen from the Marin Headlands.  Even though a relatively "green" city in a state that pays attention to night lighting, San Francisco is largely not different than an large urban area and puts out a lot of light into the night, creating a night light environment of its own.
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  • Chicago glows in the night as clouds drift in off the lake.  The cities pattern of streets, which shows up so distinctly at night, is unusually rigid and the core city area is lit almost entirely with sodium vapor lamps.
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  • The St. Louis Arch is lit at night, creating a spectacular display and also contributing to the light pollution that is common in and around all major metropolitan ares.
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  • Toronto seen at night from the CN Tower.
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  • Mining mill in Utah lit up at night.
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  • Night lighting at a ski resort contributes to light pollution
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  • Night lighting at a ski resort contributes to light pollution
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  • The St. Louis Arch is lit at night, creating a spectacular display and also contributing to the light pollution that is common in and around all major metropolitan ares.
    MM7509_20080409_1733-B.jpg
  • The St. Louis Arch is lit at night, creating a spectacular display and also contributing to the light pollution that is common in and around all major metropolitan ares.
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  • Detroit from the air at night with lights on an empty parking lot.
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  • Denver lit up at night with glow of light pollution, as seen from the foothills of the Rockie Mountains.
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  • Night lighting at a ski resort contributes to light pollution
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  • Chicago glows in the night as clouds drift in off the lake.  The cities pattern of streets, which shows up so distinctly at night, is unusually rigid and the core city area is lit almost entirely with sodium vapor lamps.<br />
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  • Sandhill Cranes feed in one of the neighborhoods of Harmony, Florida.  The community uses street lighting with full cutoff fixtures so light remains low and environmentally friendly.  They advertise their dark skies as part of their appeal and even don't allow night tennis courts that would mar the night sky.
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  • A giant spotlight shining up from the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas pierces the night sky. Such lighting contributes to light pollution, and in particular can be a problem for bats, birds, moths and other insects attracted to the beam.
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  • Endangered sea turtles struggle ashore on Juno Beach, north of Palm Beach, Florida, to lay their eggs in the soft sands, impaired by the shore lighting that can scare them away.  Worse, when the baby turtles hatch they often become confused by the lighting and turn away from the sea, making them easy prey for predators.
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  • Residents of Cuba, Kansas gather to see the effects of lighting in their community of some 200 people.  The local utility company offered to help by turning out the lights in the whole town so that the contrast between normal street lighting and dark skies could be seen in this town in the sparsely populated area of north central Kansas. The gas station is on the left and the community hall is on the right.
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  • New York's Central Park shrouded in fog shows the extent of urban lighting in one of the world's major metropolitan areas.
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  • Residents of Cuba, Kansas gather to see the effects of lighting in their community of some 200 people.  The local utility company offered to help by turning out the lights in the whole town so that the contrast between normal street lighting and dark skies could be seen in this town in the sparsely populated area of north central Kansas. The gas station is on the left and the community hall is on the right.
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  • A giant spotlight shining up from the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas pierces the night sky. Such lighting contributes to light pollution, and in particular can be a problem for bats, birds, moths and other insects attracted to the beam.
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  • The Milky Way rising over Natural Bridges National Monument in the early morning. This park in southern Utah was the first Dark Sky Park in the United State, with environmental groups and various government bodies working together to tame light pollution so that the splendors of the night sky are preserved.
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  • Like the medieval band of troubadors from which it is descended Tuna de Derecho of Santiago de Compostela gathers at a tavern in a little plaza after their nightly performance to continue their singing, now just for fun.   The gathering finally broke  up at 3:00 AM.   Made up of university students, the Tuna, sings for donations to help them pay for their studies.  Often racey and very suggestive, the singers are nothing if not charming.  Must see in Santiago.  Thursday, Friday Saturday at 10:00.
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  • Light pollution glow from Salt Lake City visible from the Bonneville Salt Flats over 100 miles away.
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  • Neolithic Orkney featured in National Geographic. The Standing Stones of Stenness on the cover.
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  • Volunteer Brian Armstrong patrols downtown Tornonto before dawn, trying to rescue birds that have become trapped by the light and tall buildings.  This morning he rescued a Virginia Rail.  He was too late to save a Yellow Bellied Sapsucker.
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  • City lighting that is bad for light pollution because light goes out in all directions.
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  • Traquair is Scotland's oldest inhabited house. It has been lived in for over 900 years and was originally a hunting lodge for the kings and queens of Scotland. John Stuart, 4th Laird of Traquair, was of the Queen's bodyguard to Mary Queen of Scots, who visited the castle in 1566.
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  • Beltane Fire Festival on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Event has been going on for years and has grown ever larger, now boasting over 300 performers and 10,000 to 15,000 spectators.
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  • Stars and the Milky Way above a hillside of Saguaro cactus east of Peridot, Arizona.
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  • Stars and the Milky Way above a hillside of Saguaro cactus east of Peridot, Arizona.
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  • In Portal, Arizona where Arizona Sky Villages is developing a community for fans of dark skies.  Homes have telescope domes on the roof and connections to a robotic telescope. Streets have names like "Milky Way."
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  • Glenfeshie Estate in the Cairngorms of Scotland is a primary site of conservation efforts to bring back more of the ancient Caledonian Forest. Owned by Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen who has dedicated much effort to a program of culling deer to bring back more balanced ecosystem including Scotls pines. 

Thomas MacDonell seen hight above the glen is conservation manager of the estate.
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  • Light from the nearby growing city of Moab fills the sky over Balanced Rock formation in Arches National Park. Park officials are worried about the growing effects of light pollution.
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  • Cemetery near a petroleum plant on the Mississippi River in Louisiana.
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  • On St. Kilda, the island west of the Outer Hebrides, a World Heritgage Site famous for its bird colonies and the tale of the evacuation of the last humans habitants in the village in 1930. View of the village houses.  To buy this print click on the SHOPPING CART below.
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  • Beltane Fire Festival on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Event has been going on for years and has grown ever larger, now boasting over 300 performers and 10,000 to 15,000 spectators.  For many in the festival it is a sacred event, welcoming spring. The central figure is the May Queen who marches from station to station to receive the admirations of Earth, Air, Fire, etc.  Her "White Women" are tempted by Red Men.  Eventually the foliage of last year is stripped from her escort whom she then brings back to life.   Blue men act as security and crowd control, whipping those who will not obey.  Columns are a landmark of Calton Hill.
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  • Beltane Fire Festival on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Event has been going on for years and has grown ever larger, now boasting over 300 performers and 10,000 to 15,000 spectators.
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  • Milky Way over the Flint Hills of Kansas
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  • Endangered sea turtles struggle ashore on Juno Beach, north of Palm Beach, Florida, to lay their eggs in the soft sands, impaired by the shore lighting that can scare them away.  Worse, when the baby turtles hatch they often become confused by the lighting and turn away from the sea, making them easy prey for predators.
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  • The Callanish Stones (or "Callanish I"), Clachan Chalanais or Tursachan Chalanais in Gaelic, are situated near the village of Callanish (Gaelic: Calanais) on the west coast of the isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles), Scotland ( 58°11?51?N, 06°44?41?W).<br />
Construction of the site took place between 2900 and 2600 BC, though there were possibly earlier buildings before 3000 BC. A tomb was later built into the site. Debris from the destruction of the tomb suggests the site was out of use between 2000 BC and 1700 BC.[1] The 13 primary stones form a circle about 13 m in diameter, with a long approach avenue of stones to the north, and shorter stone rows to the east, south, and west (possibly incomplete avenues). The overall layout of the monument recalls a distorted Celtic cross. The individual stones vary from around 1 m to 5 m in height, with an average of 4 m, and are of the local Lewisian gneiss.  <br />
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©Jim Richardson  All rights reserved. You can see more of my work at:  www.jimrichardsonphotography.com
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  • Beltane Fire Festival on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Event has been going on for years and has grown ever larger, now boasting over 300 performers and 10,000 to 15,000 spectators.  For many in the festival it is a sacred event, welcoming spring. The central figure is the May Queen who marches from station to station to receive the admirations of Earth, Air, Fire, etc.  Her "White Women" are tempted by Red Men.  Eventually the foliage of last year is stripped from her escort whom she then brings back to life.   Blue men act as security and crowd control, whipping those who will not obey.  Columns are a landmark of Calton Hill.
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  • Iona, seat of Celtic Christianity in Scotland where St. Columba came ashore from Ireland to establish his monastery in sixth century, on the island at the western end of the Isle of Mull.  Still a working religious center where pilgrims come by the thousands to follow the ways of Celtic Christianity.  The Celtic Cross has stood outside the church for over 1,000 years.
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  • Thunderstorm and lightning bearing down on a ranch in the Sandhills of Nebraska
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  • Spring burning of the Flint Hills in Kansas.
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  • Downtown main street of Liberal, Kansas sports new streetlights with old-time character, but which pour light out in all directions and up into the sky.  With no shielding the exposed globes cause much glare that makes seeing difficult.
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  • Michael Mesure and his volunteers from F.L.A.P. (Fatal Light Awareness Program) do their annual laying out of the birds that were killed running into downtown buildings in Toronto.  Birds confused by urban lighting become confused and trapped in the lighting of skyscrapers.
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  • Endangered sea turtles struggle ashore on Juno Beach, north of Palm Beach, Florida, to lay their eggs in the soft sands, impaired by the shore lighting that can scare them away.  Worse, when the baby turtles hatch they often become confused by the lighting and turn away from the sea, making them easy prey for predators.
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  • Wheat field in South Dakota with Schelske and Sons Harvesting on their own farm in western South Dakota.
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  • Polperro in Cornwall is an ancient fishing village, rich in the history of smuggling.
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  • Beltane Fire Festival on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Event has been going on for years and has grown ever larger, now boasting over 300 performers and 10,000 to 15,000 spectators.  For many in the festival it is a sacred event, welcoming spring. The central figure is the May Queen who marches from station to station to receive the admirations of Earth, Air, Fire, etc.  Her "White Women" are tempted by Red Men.  Eventually the foliage of last year is stripped from her escort whom she then brings back to life.   Blue men act as security and crowd control, whipping those who will not obey.  Columns are a landmark of Calton Hill.
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  • Los Angeles urban lighting threatens astronomy at Mount Wilson observatory in California
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  • Retired Canadian businessman Jack Newton enjoys his house in Portal, Arizona where Arizona Sky Villages is developing a community for fans of dark skies.  Homes have telescope domes on the roof and connections to a robotic telescope.
    MM7509_20080405_1540-B.jpg
  • Endangered sea turtles struggle ashore on Juno Beach, north of Palm Beach, Florida, to lay their eggs in the soft sands, impaired by the shore lighting that can scare them away.  Worse, when the baby turtles hatch they often become confused by the lighting and turn away from the sea, making them easy prey for predators.
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  • Saturday night dance in the community hall, Cuba, Kanas
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  • Island Ceilidh, Orkney Saturday night on Eday and the Sanday Fiddle Club is at the community center to perform for the folks of Eday.  The thirty or so young fidders rode the ferry over from the neighboring island and stayed the night in the center before taking the morning ferry back.  This is a pretty typical island ceilidh, a dance and dinner with traditional Scottish dancing and Scottish food (as well as a fair amount of drink.)  Orkney, Scotland
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  • Island Ceilidh, Orkney, Scotland.  Saturday night on Eday and the Sanday Fiddle Club is at the community center to perform for the folks of Eday.  The thirty or so young fidders rode the ferry over from the neighboring island and stayed the night in the center before taking the morning ferry back.  This is a pretty typical island ceilidh, a dance and dinner with traditional Scottish dancing and Scottish food (as well as a fair amount of drink.)
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  • Scenes at the Intercelitque Festival where the Magic Night performance brings performers from all the nations into the stadium for a full blown show of Celtic music and dance.  Celtic gets the rock star treatment.  Response from the Celtic audience was overwhelming.
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  • Views of the harbor in Castlebay as night falls on the Isle of Barra, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
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  • The Bar de Fredi in Espasante, Galicia is a popular spot for Celtic music.  The tavern opens at 11:00 pm and things get going about 1:00 am when the pipers arrive.  Music goes on till 5:00 am, finishing up with traditional hill singing, men and women echoing choruses back and forth.  A wild night.
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  • Harold "JR" Hoskinson at the "riding the range" at the Ingalls Feedlot.  Hoskinson grew up on a farm 15 miles from this feedlot and spend a number of years cowboying (amongst other things).  Now he is the night watchman at the Ingalls Feedlot, part of the Irsik-Doll chain  of cattle operations. The innovation of feedlots was to bring the cattle to the feed and thus reduce labor and stress on the cattle producing higher profit margins.  Here you can see the central feed bins with the "alleys" designed for effecient feeding by special feed trucks.  Hoskinson says he likes being on the range better but the pay and benefits are better in the feedlots, which came in handy two years ago when he lost his voice box to cancer.
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  • With a great tradition of myth, music and literature Orkney folk very much appreciate Margaret Leask and a couple of friends at the regular Saturday night entertainment in the bar at the Royal Hotel in Stromness.  They play a lot of Scottish music, reels and the like, and then get around to everything including Turkey in the Straw.  Orkney, Scotland
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  • The Bar de Fredi in Espasante, Galicia is a popular spot for Celtic music.  The tavern opens at 11:00 pm and things get going about 1:00 am when the pipers arrive.  Music goes on till 5:00 am, finishing up with traditional hill singing, men and women echoing choruses back and forth.  A wild night.
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  • Scenes at the Intercelitque Festival, Lorient, Brittany where the Magic Night performance brings performers from all the nations into the stadium for a full blown show of Celtic music and dance.  Celtic gets the rock star treatment.  Response from the Celtic audience was overwhelming.
    MM7189 8-6-04 15187.jpg
  • Views of the harbor in Castlebay as night falls on the Isle of Barra, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
    MM7189 20050519 26207.jpg
  • Scenes at the Intercelitque Festival where the Magic Night performance brings performers from all the nations into the stadium for a full blown show of Celtic music and dance.  Celtic gets the rock star treatment.  Response from the Celtic audience was overwhelming.
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  • A cow comes home late at night in the ancient Celtic village of Piernado in Los Ancares, the eastern mountainous region of Galicia. Cows are led to pasture in the morning and come home later in the day on their own, this one much later.  Here the old Celtic ways are still pretty fresh and the current generation still uses the old Pallozas, thatched stone houses that were home to livestock as well, even if they have built newer living quarters next door.
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  • Riding horses on Main Street on Saturday night. A couple of the young men trying to ride their horses into the Mustang Inn, the local cafe and bar.
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  • Baby sleeping on the pool table in the Mustang Inn, Cuba, Kansas.  Saturday night gathering of the community and adults nearby watching over things.
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  • Summer storm on Main Street, Cuba, Kansas.  It rained out the baseball game scheduled for that night.
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  • Cover of National Geographic Magazine 2004<br />
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Shows night burning on a Kansas Flint Hills ranch.
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  • Like the medieval band of troubadors from which it is descended Tuna de Derecho of Santiago de Compostela gathers at a tavern in a little plaza after their nightly performance to continue their singing, now just for fun.   The gathering finally broke  up at 3:00 AM.   Made up of university students, the Tuna, sings for donations to help them pay for their studies.  Often racey and very suggestive, the singers are nothing if not charming.  Must see in Santiago.
    Galicia 20050731 2186.jpg
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