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Abstract detail from painted brick wall near an area known as The Bearpit in the St James Barton area of Bristol City Centre. The pattern made by the bricks is exaggerated by the shadows thrown in the day's hard light.
Detail from the side elevation of the new Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, East London. Architects: HOK
impressions @ playground
SMC Pentax-M 50mm F4 Macro @ f/9.5
Stroboscope: METZ Mecablitz 58 AF-2 @ 5 Hz, 2s
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Detail of street door in East London.
See my other 'Textured Abstracts' in my album www.flickr.com/photos/robinmauricebarr/albums/72157647693...
Weathered concertina security doors with repeating hole patterns protecting a property in an East London side street.
This time, a black and white view looking up at the curvaceous balconies of the 'Riverwalk' apartments, overlooking the River Thames at Westminster, in London. Architects: Stanton Williams.
Auf der Loggia stehen inzwischen die Abgüsse der vier Bronzepferde. Die Originale stehen im Museum von San Marco.
Interessanter sind aber die Schatten des Geländers auf dem Boden des Balkons.
China Camp Village Cafe
San Rafael, San Pablo Bay, Marin County, Northern California, USA
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Architekturbüro: Estudio Carme Pinós S. L., Barcelona
Verbaute Fläche: rund 16.000 m2
Tetris-Fassade
Die Fassadengestaltung und der Grundriss des Gebäudes spielen mit Parallelogrammen und einer dynamischen Fensteranordnung, die ebenfalls auf eine Folge von ineinander verschobenen Parallelogrammen basiert. Faltschiebeläden aus Aluminiumlochblech fungieren hier als Sonnenschutz und generieren ein abwechslungsreiches Fassadenspiel.
'Bytheway' is Glaswegian slang used to introduce a new topic of conversation.
In this case I photographed these discarded posters and other rubbish wedged between a window grill and the window itself on a Glasgow street, by the way.
Isolation from an arched ceramic tile mural (14 feet high by 35 feet wide) by Clare Rojas
Chinatown-Rose Pak Station
San Francisco, California
The #MacroMondays theme for 8/18 is #spiky and this bottle/straw brush looked like a possible contender. Rendered it in b&w to add interest and focus
Btw, can’t tell you how many stray and random fine hairs wanted to be in these shots… giggling
for #SlidersSunday …this is my second favorite spiky picture for MM
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san miguel de allende, gto
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Ballonleuchte auf der Esplanade, vor der Allianz-Arena.
Die in ihrem Design unkonventionelle und zugleich thematisch an Sport erinnernden Leuchten wurden von den Architekten Herzog und De Meuron entworfen.
Der konische Mast und der ovale, lichtgeflutete Ballon stechen den Besuchern sofort ins Auge- Das Ballongehäuse besteht aus schwer entflammbarer Gewebefolie, die mittels eines im Mast befindlichen Lüfters ständig unter Druck gesetzt wird.
Aus 2.800 rautenförmigen Luftkissen (ETFE Folienkissen mit Anschluss an permanente Luftversorgung), setzt sich die Stadionhülle zusammen.
Architektur: Herzog & de Meuron
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Historic boat beached at China Camp Village, San Pablo Bay, San Rafael, Marin County, USA.
The Monterey Clipper has long been considered part of the local fishing fleet to the San Francisco Bay Area, the Monterey Bay Area and east to the Sacramento delta. The original hull design was introduced into the area by Italians in the late 1860s. The design came from Genoese lateen-rigged sailboats, known as silenas, then later referred to as San Francisco feluccas.
At Fishermen's Wharf, San Francisco, circular crab nets, large fish nets and feluccas protruding masts. 1891. Source: NARA
The feluccas were at first used to gather shrimp in the SF bay, but when this fishery was abandoned to the Chinese, they gillnetted for local bay fish, trolled for ocean fish, and pulled up the famous Dungeness crabs. During this period, they made up about two-thirds of the 85 or so fishing boats that served the city. Later, as the fleet grew, about 50 boats serviced just the crab fisheries. By 1890, there were about 1000 feluccas in the wharf.
The Monterey Clipper came into being with industrialization around 1925. The boat was improved with a small single-cylinder gasoline engine and amenities such that, "it could engage in multiple types of fishing and spend several days at sea". All total, around this period, about 500 of the small fishing boats were based in San Francisco. Companies like the Beviaqua yard and the Genoa Boat Works were instrumental in adding to the fleet.
By the 1930s, the local sardine industry came alive with more canneries built in San Francisco and Monterey. The Monterey Clipper was key in the development of this industry. This continued until the early 1950s "when the production and the exploitation of the fishery peaked". By this time, large vessels and the introduction of inventions like the Purse-Seiners reduced the fleet to about 200 in San Francisco.
An abandoned Monterey Clipper being used as a planter at Mission Bay Inlet in San Francisco, California.
Today, this boat is too small, too slow, and inadequate for commercial fishing. In its day, it could support a family, and sometimes two, but it now serves mainly as a pleasure craft. These boats can be found as far north as Alaska and as far south as San Diego. In spite of its downturn, its value as a small craft continues to be seen in similar hulls built in other parts of the world such as South Africa, Chile, Egypt, and India.
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Boardwalk Arcade, Santa Cruz, Northern California, USA
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Built in Benicia, California shipyards in 1891 by Matthew Turner, one of the Bay Area’s master boat builders, the Brigantine Galilee started her career as a packet ship, delivering parcels between San Francisco and Tahiti. In 1905 she began a second career as a research vessel of scientific exploration by the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism.
After some time as a fishing vessel, the Galilee was beached in Sausalito in 1933 in what is now known as “Galilee harbor”, marking the end of her sailing days. The ship became a houseboat and offices, part of the vibrant houseboat culture that first spring up after the 1906 earthquake and carries through to this day in Sausalito.
After the boat was declared no longer fit for habitation she sat empty and deteriorating for many more years. Finally, the stern portion of the boat was removed and relocated to Fort Mason, where it sat mysteriously unmarked and mostly exposed to the elements, under a small shelter. Today the midsection of the Galilee is still in Sausalito, sunken into the mud in Galilee harbor and the bow is located at the Benicia Historical Museum.
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Architectural detail China Camp Village pier, San Rafael, Marin County, San Pablo Bay, Northern California, USA
Der Grande Arche ist ein modernes Bauwerk in Gestalt eines tesseraktförmigen Triumphbogens im Hochhausviertel La Défense in der Stadt Puteaux, westlich von Paris.
Eröffnet: 14. Juli 1989
Architektonische Höhe: 111 m
Stockwerke: 35
Architekten: Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, Paul Andreu, Erik Reitzel, Peter Rice