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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
I thought I had finally found a photograph of one of the color "domes"used to manipulate the light of the Dana Point street lanterns.
http://www.danapointtimes.com/its-hi...he-oil-please/
In actuality, this is the beacon that was atop the 125-foot Richfield tower at Dana Point!!
*The beacon was donated to the Dana Point Historical Society by Richard Deffenbaugh (the man in the photograph)
You can read the entire story here:
http://www.danapointtimes.com/its-hi...he-oil-please/
below: ProphetM's earlier post showing the Dana Point Richfield tower at it's original location.
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Thanks for that! I do have this photo in my collection and can note that although this was the light atop the tower when it was taken down in 1971, this is not the aerial beacon as erected in 1928. That beacon was a much larger, rotating affair of 2 million candlepower. I have never seen a photo of the original beacon apparatus up close, but I do have this ad by the manufacturer where you can at least make out the round beacon on top of the tower (or perhaps they drew it there for the ad):
Aero Digest, August 1929, via archive.org
And it just so happens that this ad photo is of the Dana Point beacon (known at the time as Capistrano Beach).
e_r: Just for the photo hosting discussion, I have used Picasa for all of my hosting and it works wonderfully with the Picasa desktop app, which also has simple editing, adjustment, cropping, etc. You can upload via the web but I use that very rarely because I already use the desktop app for organizing my photos anyway. Don't know if you use a Mac or if there's a Mac Picasa app.
Picasa is a part of Google; the desktop program and Picasa Web Albums are free with my Google (Gmail) account. They attempted to merge Picasa Web Albums into Google+ as "Google+ Photos" but that never really took off so they are separating them again. The thing is, Picasa Web Albums never actually went away. The Google+ link and forwarding just used an alternate URL to get to the same photos. I used to just use a 'noredirect' tag as part of the URL to go directly to Picasa, and it appears that is no longer needed, you can just go to picasaweb.google.com .
There is a space limit - mine is 15GB but I'm not sure if it was enlarged through some old offer that I've forgotten! Current pages indicate that this is now shared across Picasa aka Google Photos (which is I guess what they're calling it now), Google Drive, and Gmail. A 100GB limit is $2 per month.
However, and this is the biggest help - the limit does not apply to images below a certain size - 2048 pixels on the longest dimension. Which is more than big enough for nearly everything posted on web forums. The Picasa desktop app lets you choose a 'best for web sharing' option when you upload, so that it automatically uploads it at that size, and you can upload hundreds of pictures at a time. If you have used captions in the desktop app, it includes those. I don't know if there's a limit on albums (folders), but I have over 50 at the moment; each folder can hold 1000 photos. I have something like 15,000+ photos uploaded and I'm barely over 2GB out of 15, most of which is probably Google Drive and Gmail stuff, since nearly all my Picasa photos are uploaded at 2048px or less.
In the web interface you have link & embedding URLs available. There are some pre-selected sizes in a dropdown menu, but in truth every picture is infinitely scalable, up to the size you uploaded. For instance, in the photo I posted above there is part of the URL which reads "s1000" - you can change that to whatever you want and it makes the picture that size, in pixels of length. If you use "s0" it uses the original upload size.
Just for fun, here is that picture again at 20, 30, and 40 pixels high, same URL except for the "s20"/"s30"/"s40":
You can make any folder public or private or semi-private (must have direct URL), so I have used it to make a few photos available to people at original size, like family pics for relatives that won't fit in email. But mostly I use it for web forum pics and for hosting captioned trip photos for other people to find in web searches.
I'm sure many (most?) image hosting has pretty much the same options and probably more, but Picasa works great for me.