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After grabbing that last shot of the towers behind the main drag at La Défense I walked past this little scene which caught my eye. I took a fairly cursory iPhone snap and continued on back to my hotel as it was about 9.30 by this point.
But while on the Metro I looked at the pic again and wasn’t happy with the smushy quality of the iPhone 11 Pro’s ultra wide lens so was agonising about whether I could be bothered enough to go all the way back and retake the same shot with my ‘proper’ camera on the tripod. I decided it was worth the inconvenience so I got off and hopped back on a train going the other way again!
I think it was worth the effort, although it took about half an hour to get back and by then they’d turned off the lights that were still illuminating the Grande Arche so I had to use some Photoshop magic to make it more visible ...
Long exposure shot at la Defense, Paris.
Here i merged 3 images for the comp, and a couple more for the car trails :-)
Thanks to Beboy for Geolocaton :-)
La Défense is a major business district near Paris, in France.
La Défense is Europe's largest purpose-built business district with 560 hectares (5.6 million square metres) area, 72 glass and steel buildings and skyscrapers, 180,000 daily workers, and 3.5 million square metres (37.7 million sq ft) of office space. Around its Grande Arche and esplanade ("le Parvis"), La Défense contains many of the Paris urban area's tallest high-rises, and is home to no fewer than 1,500 corporate head offices, including those of 15 of the top 50 companies in the world.
The district is located at the western-most extremity of the ten-kilometre-long Historical Axis of Paris, which starts at the Louvre in Central Paris, and continues along the Champs-Élysées, well beyond the Arc de Triomphe before culminating at La Défense. The district is centred in an orbital motorway straddling the Hauts-de-Seine département municipalities of Courbevoie, Nanterre and Puteaux. La Défense is primarily a business district, and hosts only a population of 25,000 permanent residents and 45,000 students. La Défense is also visited by 8,000,000 tourists each year, and houses an open-air museum.
This gun dates to the period 1809-1860, providing coastal defense in the War of 1812 and then a more complicated history in the Civil War.
This week, Saturday Timewatch looks at the remains of Rufus Castle on Dorset's Isle of Portland. Most of the remains date from the 15th century though fortifications are known to have been here earlier than that.
A detailed history can be found here
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To supplement its Municipal Defense Fleet, Haelos Star Yards has introduced a line of light cruisers in addition to its larger vessels.
Smaller than its Vausi-class brother, the S-25 Savaran is designed for escort duty and light skirmishes as its primary roles. Each of its side hull trenches is home to a dual heavy turbolaser emplacement, and a single point-defence rotating turbolaser provides cover for its bridge section, which contains extensive comms equipment.
HSY intends on producing a substantial number of light cruisers, both for its own purposes as well as for sale to the various vying factions which require vessels to replenish their fleets.
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My first build for Star Wars Factions, after all these years. I designed this to couple with LamborghiniWaffleSauce's Factions ship, and if all goes to plan you'll be able to see them displayed together at Bricktastic in February.