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it's official, this is NOT a table any longer and hereforth will be referred to as Expansion! 36 inch diameter, 30 pounds. will be rigged to spin.
My dear contacts and visitors!
I’ve read lots of comments, blog posts and forum topics about my photographs, whether I use photoshop or not, and should photoshop be used at all. It’s an honest question, but, as far as I’m concern, I had a goal to use photography as ‘prima materia’, a base, and through editing create a fusion of reality and vision.
I am not a photo reporter, so I don’t feel obligated to honour every detail. What I’m trying to achieve is to emphasize the whole potential of a shot, creating a sight that I'd like if existed.. And since it’s impossible in real life, I do it in virtual :) My work is maybe more similar to ‘photo-painting’ than photography.
Join me! After all, there is a reality of everything you imagine :) If you had recognised my work, than we share the same vision, and they are yours as much as they are mine!
It’s a harmless illusion – your personal, real life reality is only a click away... :) :) :)
Silvia B., Eden’s Expansion, 2021 at the exhibition "Textile Biennial 2021. Food For Thought", Museum Rijswijk
see also my blog: pienw.blogspot.com/2021/10/textiel-biennale-2021-food-for...
a swollen looking abstract design...I call it a spinner.....trying to rise from the water & expanding as it goes....maybe trying to get out of the page....
thanks for having a look....glad you did & many thanks ....... best bigger ........hope you have a Great Day
taken yesterday ((( while it was still warm)))), still trying to figure out how to edit this properly
Con estas imágenes os quiero mostrar la 8 sinfonía de colores y formas que se pueden contemplar a la caída de unas simples gotas de agua. Son estas: Caída, Impacto, Expansión, Reacción, Cenit, División, Retorno, Recuperación. Eso si, hay que "congelarlas" para poder disfrutar de ellas.
"I'm in a period of growth and expansion. I'm taking long, hard looks at the world and what's happening in it, analyzing and thinking. I'm trying to become acquainted with the universe -- with the part of it I occupy -- and trying to settle, for myself, what my relationship with it is. "
-Gene Roddenberry
Self portraits of self-discovery - "My last night in New York city" - October 2005
El minimalismo en su descripción más genérica sería aquella tendencia a despojar de todo lo que no es esencial en algún ámbito determinado. En este paisaje lo fundamental se reduce a cuatro "cosas": el mar, las piedras, el cielo nuboso y esos acantilados que se ven al fondo.
A mi modo de ver, podrían ser suficientes elementos para hacer una fotografía atractiva, ya no os cuento lo maravilloso de encontrarse ahí, solo en ese entorno escuchando únicamente el ir y venir de las olas.
Y con ese cielo además de un viento considerable me pareció que hace runa exposición larga podía añadir más atractivo a la fotografía y he aquí está el resultado.
Medio minuto de exposición para recoger ese movimiento de las nubes y dejar esa sensación como de expansión del cielo, eso y el maravilloso color del agua hacen que esta sea una de mis fotografías favoritas tomadas en Normandía.
Last weekend I went up to Boston to second shoot a wedding with Emily Tebbetts. We had a little hang out with some other photographers including the lovely Taylor McCormick. It was awesome to meet some new photographers and see old friends, talking about photography and art in the middle of the night outside of border cafe. It is ridiculous how the world can be scattered with so many people and somehow we have created a tool that brings like minded people together so that they can have lengthy talks on a saturday night in the middle of a random city about art and why they make it. My life is really great and I am so thankful that it is mine.
Olean, NY. July 2017.
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Expansion #2. Again, 2+ hours of editing, but it was worth it.
I'm having a lot of trouble getting good contrast in the sky without darkening my face. I actually added sky in some of the white parts. I'll be working on that a lot. In other news, it finally snowed :D I'm so excited.
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Here's my newest fractal creation. I've titled this one "Infinite Expansion" as it resembles a Nautilus shell. The Nautilus is a sea creature that lives in ever expanding series of chambers that it builds for itself for each new phase of its life.
The article below originated from:
Traditional Building Magazine
Updated: Jan 6, 2020
Original: Feb 2, 2016
Originally built in 1916, the Palm Beach courthouse was a tour de force of Neoclassical architecture. The architect Wilber Burt Talley designed a granite base, brick and stone façades, soaring Indiana limestone columns and Corinthian capitals that held up triangle pediments, and a dentil molding below the cornice. The four-story, 40,000-sq.ft. the building housed the county government offices and records, as well as the jail.
Almost immediately the courthouse ran out of space, and 11 years later an addition was constructed 25 feet to the east. Talley again served as the courthouse architect, and the 1927 addition was similar in appearance and used many of the same materials as the original building. In 1955, the two buildings were connected with usable rooms to accommodate the growing county.
Yet another addition was required in the late ’60s; it was completed in 1969. The architecture firm Edge & Powell delivered a brick building that nearly doubled the square footage to 180,000 sq. ft. This time, the addition was less than sympathetic. In fact, the 1916 and 1927 buildings were lost in the center of the new construction, which wrapped around them completely.
The building was utilized for 36 years in this configuration, until 1995, when a new courthouse opened across the street. Expansions had plagued the 1916 courthouse almost as soon as it was built, and this was no exception. “After the new courthouse opened, the old one was slated for demolition,” says Rick Gonzales, Jr., AIA, CEO and principal at REG Architects. “Since I knew about the 1916 courthouse, I recognized the potential of the site and got in touch with preservation specialists in the area. It took some time, but a group of us eventually convinced the county to fund a feasibility study, which we conducted in 2002.”
Gonzales talks about stimulating interest in the project: “We would go to the new courthouse to sell our idea and walk people up to the windows to look at the old site,” he says.
“‘Believe it or not, there’s a building inside that building,’ I’d say. That really piqued people’s interest.”
The county agreed to fund the project, and demolition of the additions began in January 2004 and was completed two years later. “It took a long time because it was a selective demolition,” says Gonzales. “We needed to be careful to salvage many of the materials from the 1927 building to use in the restoration of the 1916 structure. It resembled the original, so we took everything we could for reuse.” A number of materials were recovered, including limestone, granite, wood windows, doors, marble wainscot, mosaic floor tiles, wood flooring, trim, and hardware.
While a majority of the materials were the same from building to building, the detailing was not identical. “We were working from the drawings of the 1927 building because we couldn’t find drawings for the earlier structure,” says Gonzales. “We had thought the detailing was the same, but when we put our studies together we saw that the rhythm, proportion, and cornices were different.”
When REG Architects couldn’t apply the 1927 documentation to the restoration, the firm examined what was remaining of the building and the few images that had survived. “For a while, we had no cornice pieces, because all of the exterior ornamentations had been destroyed when the façades were smoothed for the addition,” says Gonzales. “Then a contractor found a 16-in. piece, which we used to re-create the cornice line.”
Other elements that needed to be re-created, such as the granite and limestone porticos on the north, south, and west façades, were designed using historic photographs. “We found limestone with the same vein from the same Indiana quarry that was originally used,” says Gonzales. “We were extremely lucky in that the quarry ran out of that vein right after our order.” REG Architects was also able to match the granite.
Many components of the building were salvaged and restored. The cornerstones were restored and placed in their original locations at the northwest corner. The 12 Corinthian capitals and the load-bearing limestone columns – each of which weighs 30,600 lbs. – were pieced back together and repaired. “Placement of the capitals was especially tedious,” says Gonzales, “because it needed to be precise. They were then secured with pegs and glue.”
On the north, south, and west elevations, the brick was restored and, when necessary, replaced. “We couldn’t locate replacement brick with the same hues as the existing brick hues,” says Gonzales, “so we hired artists to stain it so that it blended with the original brick.” On the east elevation, REG Architects specified new brick so the new façade clearly stood out from the old ones.
To the same point, new hurricane-proof wood windows were chosen for the east elevation, while REG Architects was careful to preserve as many old windows as possible on the other elevations. Hedrick Brothers repaired 76 original wood windows as well as the window hardware. “We found a local manufacturer, Coastal Millwork of Riviera Beach, FL, to get the original windows tested for hurricane-preparedness,” says Gonzales. “The company reinforced and laminated the windows, so we were able to reinstall them.”
The crowning achievement of the exterior work was the re-creation of an eagle crest on the west pediment.
Based on a small postcard and images of other eagle crests, Ontario, Canada-based Traditional Cut Stone designed the crest for Palm Beach. “They created a small scale model and then a full-scale model in clay,” says Gonzales. “The final piece, which took five months to produce, was hand-carved from five pieces of Indiana limestone.” Traditional Cut Stone was also responsible for all of the limestone work on the building. REG Architects based much of its interior design on the Desoto County Courthouse in Arcadia, FL, which was built by Talley in 1913.
“The dilemma about the interiors was that there was little archival material and few original photographs to give a precise vision for the interiors,” says Gonzales. “Emphasis was placed on trying to restore the character of the main courtroom and the main interior public spaces.” The main courtroom on the third and fourth floors was especially aided by the Desoto research. The millwork was re-created and the plaster ceiling and moldings, maple flooring, doors, and door hardware were restored. Replica lighting was fabricated.
Architectural elements in the corridors and staircases received similar treatment. Hendrick Brothers uncovered the original mosaic flooring and had it repaired. Only five percent of the tile needed to be replaced; in these cases, matching tile from the 1927 building was used. About 80 percent of the marble wainscoting was salvaged, while the other 20 percent was replaced with matching marble from the original quarry. Wood doors and door hardware were salvaged and reused.
All of the building code upgrades – including efficient HVAC, fire protection, and hurricane protection – were hidden as much as possible with historic finishes. The alley elevation provided an ADA-accessible entrance and space for elevators.
The newly restored Palm Beach County Court House now accommodates a museum for the historical society, as well as offices for the County’s Public Affairs Department and County Attorney. “People say this project was an alignment of the stars,” says Gonzales. “It was. We were lucky to have the opportunity to save this building, we worked with a lot of great people, and it turned out well. It was a great labor of love.” TB
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
www.traditionalbuilding.com/projects/courthouse-unwrapped
downtownwpb.com/things-to-do/history-museum-and-restored-...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_and_Pat_Johnson_Palm_Beach_...
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The Cities of Australia are being taken over by cranes making string patterns to the sky forever altering the landscape
I've been feeling uninspired lately, so I decided to work my way through the thousands of untouched photos buried in the folders on my desktop. Emilie has been patiently waiting to see the rest of the photos from our abandoned house adventure, and I haven't posted here in a while.
I named this after From a Closet in Norway (Oslo Blues) from the album Rose Ave, which is a collaboration between P!nk and Dallas Green. (A.K.A. my dream record). Seriously, go listen to it, it's beautiful.