The beauty of light
Some posts are rich with words, others are rich with images. This post will be more the later and as such will be posted in a photography community. I will give a little insight into what I do for a living though and that's right, you guessed it, light is central to it.
Hopefully you good folks won't mind the lack of words and will appreciate the photos instead.
It's a few weeks now since you've seen this magnificent lighthouse @deirdyweirdy, so I simply had to start the photoscape with one of my trusty lighthouse and stones!
There's few inanimate things I love more than light. The colours it conjures up at dawn and dusk, the rainbows, the Northern lights. My career even focuses on light - Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) and Total Internal Reflection underpin my engineering background. This post is making it's way to you in most cases beneath oceans thanks to DWDM technology and fibre optic cables beneath oceans and seas, but alas that's another post for another day, this post is about photos, so let me share some.
Reflections
I quite liked how the sun's rays were bouncing off the top of my wife's car this morning, so I captured a few shots.
Reflections help me at work too though. That's how we find precisely where a break is on a fibre optic cable, whether on land or at sea. We use a piece of kit called an Optical Time Domain Reflectometre (OTDR) to send a pulse of light down the fibre and it reflects off the break point and back to the source. We know that light travels at exactly 299 792 458 m/s, so we can calculate exactly where the break is using some equations and dispatch a fibre crew on land or a highly specialised boat, if it's a sub sea break in the Irish sea.
Anyway, work shmirk.... Back to the photos...
Walls
Lastly I'll leave ye with a series of photos of the beautiful sun rise from this morning along the stone wall at the perimeter of our property.
Thanks as always for stopping by everyone.
Peace Out
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Oh joy! The return of the lighthouse. I thought I'd never again gaze upon its wonder. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I knew it would be a stand out moment for you alright. Apologies if you were sitting when you saw it. You'd have been rattled right enough..
What a nice lighting you captured, I really like the colors you managed to capture, I liked the one where you see the reflection, congratulations.
Hey there, thanks a mil, ya, I really liked how those reflection ones came out actually..
The natural beauty is truly extraordinary.
Thanks a lot
same friend
Very nice! I'm a big fan of fiber. Looking to expand my network as we speak. Hoping to get my last leg to 10Gb soon.
When you say my network, do you mean at work or at home?
Work. We have a building about nine miles down the road that we are currently using a point to point radio to connect to. I want to get them moved over to fiber, then all my internal and external will be 10GB.
Ah right, makes sense. I was thinking fuck me 10Gig fibre broadband at home, impressive!!
How has the radio link behaved for ye over the years? Is it licensed with a regulator?
Man, I wish! That would be so sweet. The radio is licensed through the FCC. I want something more sustainable. We have had the towers for probably ten years now. Very few issues, but as they get older I am sure that will change.
I was left in awe by the stunning scenery at that place. The landscape photo you captured looks like it was taken by a skilled artist, even though you only used a mobile phone.
Kind words indeed @mell79 - thanks for that
You've been curated by @amazingdrinks! Delegations welcome!
Thanks