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Stripped and naked

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I had a meeting at Silicon Valley Campus of the Carnegie Mellon University at NASA Ames near Sunnyvale, California. After the meeting I took the time to drive around the NASA campus. This is Hangar One - I am pointing the camera up on the structure.

 

Hangar One is one of the world's largest freestanding structures, covering 8 acres (3.2 ha), and has long been one of the most recognizable landmarks of California's Silicon Valley. An early example of mid-century modern architecture, it was built in the 1930s as a naval airship station for the USS Macon. The curvy structure on the right is a huge door that slides around in a circular way. A few years back it was stripped from its cover due to lead and asbestos contamination. I like the naked structure more than the original one.

 

I processed a balanced and a paintery HDR photo from three RAW exposures, and blended them using 50% paintery HDR for the scene, and 100% balanced HDR for the sky. After that I desaturated the image, and fixed the curves for higher contrast to make the scene pop in monochrome.

 

-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 3 RAW exposures, NEX-6, _DSC9508_9_0_hdr3smo2d

 

Update 2015-22-21: In the stats I have seen that the 4th popular search term today is "naked". People looking for this probably did not expect to see this... :-)

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