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Despite the government's efforts to create many green spaces, Singapore looks like a concrete city from some perspectives.
Pavilhão de Portugal
Parque das Nações. Lisbon
[Nikon D800, Nikkor-Fisheye AI 16mm f/2.8, panorama merge]
the contrast between good weather and bad can be so great some days, especially in low evening light. The last suns rays often stay under the advancing clouds till the very last minute. I love these conditions, as the beach just comes alive. Concrete and gold is by Foo Fighters, and is as good a title as any.
Jacques Herzog (Herzog & de Meuron):
"Wir suchen Materialien, die so atemberaubend schön wie die Kirschblüten in Japan sind oder so verdichtet und kompakt wie die Felsformationen der Alpen oder so rätselhaft und unergründlich wie die Oberflächen der Ozeane. Wir suchen Materialien, die so intelligent, virtuos und komplex wie Naturerscheinungen sind, also Materialien, die nicht nur die Retina des erstaunten Kunstkritikers kitzeln, sondern auch wirklich effizient sind und alle Sinne ansprechen - nicht nur die Augen, auch die Nase, die Ohren, den Geschmacks- und Tastsinn."
Es ist ihnen hier vortrefflich gelungen, wie ich finde! ;-))
f 8,0
1/40 s
3200 ISO
24 mm
Water cascades over concrete aggregate blocks in the Active Pool at the Philip Johnson-designed Fort Worth Water Gardens in the south end of Downtown Fort Worth, Texas.
Leica M-P & Summilux-M 35mm @ ISO1250
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my written permission.
© Toni_V. All rights reserved.
In the 1970s cities in Germany fell for the credo "concrete is good for you". In my hometown, much of the historically grown was sacrificed for efficiency, and with it the soul many a place once had. Here's my attempt to make it at least look interesting...
Made up of over 700 miles of man made "concrete and pipe" river, the California Aqueduct system provides water to Los Angeles County and it's population of over 10 million. That's more people than 42 States have. For years now farmers haven't been getting the water they're allotted and paid for due to several reasons that I'm not going to get into, political according to farmers, environmental according to politicians. Los Angeles gets its water, while many farms have reverted to basically desert waste land. Took this picture off I-5 near Patterson California at the top of a hillside scenic view point.
The large (up to 2.5 metres in diameter) sandstone boulders at Red Rock Coulee are concretions - formed undersea, in this case the shallow "Bearpaw Sea" that covered much of the North American interior when the dinosaurs still roamed. Eighty million years old, give or take, they now sit on the Alberta prairie like gigantic, misshapen cow pies.
I wondered what I could do with a fish eye lens here, so when the sun emerged from a cloud bank very late in the evening, I got out the Rokinon 8mm. Keeping the camera level produces a straight horizon; any tilt and there is a pronounced curve. The limitation lies in its extraordinary 180° field of view: if I shifted to the right, the sun would be in my frame; to the left and I have to deal with my own shadow. And the photo op turned out to be brief; I had time for half a dozen shots and then the light faded.
Photographed at Red Rock Coulee Natural Area, Alberta (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2023 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Curves of a concrete foot bridge over the A406 North Circular Road in North West London near Harlesden.