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This ornamental archway is unique in that its east and west side walls have distinctly different looks. Named for its signature feature, the east side three-lobe patterned arch, known as a trefoil, it’s also decorated with quatrefoils in round frames and bordered by four small circles. Its west side, by contrast, features a round archway and curved, rustic voussoirs, or wedge-shaped stones.
Completed in 1862, Trefoil spans almost 16 feet with a 66-foot underpass. It carries the East Drive above and links pedestrians from Conservatory Water to the Lake below. Its revetments are built from brownstone, an unusual material for Calvert Vaux, who preferred New Brunswick sandstone for the Park's bridges and arches. ~ www.centralparknyc.org/visit/things-to-see/great-lawn/tre...
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Photex 35mm f/2.8 S&T Lens on a GF2
[ 1/125 | ƒ/5.6 | ISO 160 | 35 mm ]
Explored: July 6, 2009.
#77
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flight from the fort lauderdale airport to orlando.
i spent a week in miami with family<3
Affection, the gifted architect is making a draft and beautiful design.
The options and possibilities are endless when we connect and re-align.
Collections of books and documents arise and parade around my cluttered desk. Reworking the math and measurements until I'm convinced these plans are picturesque, like mountains in the Midwest.
Reaction creates the columns dark and, wide like the roads around Fort Lauderdale, the structures begin to take their shape. Before I've designed the public monorail, the turnpike and high-speed motorway connect and enclose the quaint suburban streets.
The airport, the broad suspension bridge, the lake, and the beach, where several rivers meet, compounded from the spreadsheet.
-Owl City: Designer Skyline.
My friend Michael Naimark is exploring new ideas for virtual reality experiences, in collaboration with Google and other researchers. To discuss this work, we got together with two other colleagues, Steve Gano and Jim McKee -- with whom we worked at the Apple Multimedia Lab in the eighties, pushing the envelope on related questions.
We started with a tour of the historic Sentinel Building in North Beach, home of American Zoetrope -- where Francis Coppola worked on many cinematic masterpieces like The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. We checked out the underground screening room and sound mixing room where some of that work took place, then headed upstairs to Michael and Jim’s studios, for a wonderful conversation about the new VR frontier.
Michael and his colleagues are researching how people are represented in virtual reality. Their first experiment at Google’s “Big Chairs” Park led to some helpful guidelines on how to film people for VR, by using different camera angles and distances.
They’re also investigating ‘hyper-images’ that resemble a group of people, but that are shot at different times and composited together to create both ‘credible’ and ‘incredible’ pictures. To enable more experiments like these, Michael is developing ‘IMU VR’, a new type of camera that could make it easier for communities to tell their stories in VR. More on this later.
It was great to reconnect with my colleagues and brainstorm these ideas together. It felt like the good old days, and the creative juices were flowing all over again ...
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This shot was taken using a nikon D80 with a Sigma 105 macro lens. I also used an off camera SB 600 triggered from the on camera flash set to 1/32 to fill under the wing on the right of the photo. . Manual exposure, ISO 100
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Taken at Washington Park
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I haven't had any photos to post lately but this one from yesterday came out decent so I thought I'd toss it up here to keep y'all occupied.
Willie and I haven't had a good photo shoot in a while. All of our Death Valley shoots were a bust and we hoped that Sunday would change our luck. We watched as Saturday and Sunday morning brought amazing sunsets and sunrises yet we stayed in bed out of laziness. Not wanting to miss another good opportunity we hoped in the car and decided to try our luck at Marshall Beach in San Francisco. Neither of us had been here before and Willie was exhausted after a 10 mile hike the day before so I drove us through traffic as we found our way to the Golden Gate Bridge.
Due to unexpected traffic we arrived at Marshall Beach much later than we intended. We raced down the mile long hike to the beach (it's pretty steep, but luckily the city of SF built a bunch of steps to make the trail down nice and easy). We got to the beach and quickly realized there were numerous compositions and we ran back and forth trying to find a good one before the sun got low and started lighting up the sky. Eventually we settled on a spot in the back that gave us a composition with rocks that would direct the incoming waves and provide some nice foreground motion. After finding a spot that I liked I got my Lee filter holder, remote shutter, and filters out and began to setup my tripod….
As I pulled open my tripod legs and went to attach my camera to the tripod my heart skipped a beat …. my ball-head looked strange. It was then that I noticed the knob that turns the quick release head to clamp my camera to the tripod was missing. Not a big deal I thought, I can at least use my fingers to turn the screw. Oh wait …. the quick release clamp (that moves in and holds the camera in) was gone too!!! Completely missing!!!! I have no idea how the entire thing fell off but it meant that my tripod was useless! Useless!
(Update: I called Acratech this morning and once they receive my ball-head they will replace the quick release clamp for free and send it back to me! Man their service rocks!).
I was forced to hand-hold my shots for this shoot. Knowing that we needed long shutters to provide foreground motion Willie suggested that I use a rock to balance the camera. This was a great idea because it gave me a little extra stability without my tripod but it also meant that my compositions were limited to a couple spots. My thoughts of catching waves crashing over some other rocks were dashed. Despite the lack of tripod I still managed to get a number of shots that came out decent and since I was slightly higher up the beach I also managed to stay more dry than Willie, who took a splash over his new rain boots.
Unfortunately for us, Mamma Nature is still mad at us and although there were *perfect* clouds above the Golden Gate Bridge, a bunch of low, thick clouds rolled in at the horizon behind us and blocked the light from reaching anywhere. Oh well, Black and White it is, which turned out kinda neat!
Nikon D700 w/Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED AF-S:
48mm, f/13, 0.4 sec, ISO 640, "Rock" Tripod (see above)
Lee Filter Holder + 0.9 HiTech Soft ND Grad
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I have had a few nice encounters in the subway system (surprising enough) and this was my second of the day – the first being Issicha. I had just stopped by the Toronto Public Library branch in the west end to check on my photo exhibit and found that all was in order. On my way back to the subway to head downtown I saw this wonderful splash of color at the intersection. She was with a girlfriend and the three of us crossed the street together on our way to the subway station. I introduced myself and my project and asked her if she would be kind enough to participate. She agreed after hearing a few details and looking at my contact card. Meet Dana.
Just inside the doors to the station there was plenty of light and a wall of tiles, some of them plain and a few with colors. I suggested we take the photos against the tiles. Her friend occupied herself on her cell phone while we did the photos and it was clear that Dana enjoyed the experience. When I asked her about the bright red hair she said “I do it myself.” I wondered if she is a hairstylist and she said “No, but I learned from my Auntie and I enjoy doing hair.” I commented that it certainly grabbed my attention. Confirming that I wasn’t making the two of them late for something, Dana said “No, not at all. We were just doing a bit of shopping for the children.”
Dana is 26 and came to Canada from Jamaica at age 12. I told her it was a coincidence that I had photographed another Jamaican in a different subway station earlier today and showed her Issicha’s portrait which was still on my camera. I asked about Dana’s advice to her younger self and she said “Be strong no matter what. Better times will come.” Her biggest challenge in life has been when her six year old son was struck by a bullet in a neighborhood shooting. I’m sure my shock registered on my face. I didn’t push for details but did ask about the outcome and she said he recovered well and is doing great. Her face lit up in talking about his good health now. Her message to the project was “What doesn’t kill you will make you stronger.” It’s interesting that her answers to the three questions I asked all tie together. Without planning it, I spontaneously asked her if she had a dream. She said “I do. It’s to be a flight attendant.” I commented that I’ve always loved airplanes and anything relating to airplanes. “Do you think this dream will ever come true?” I asked. She said “Oh, I’m definitely going to try – but not until my children are older.”
I thanked Dana and her friend for their patience and we exchanged contact information. I told her about my photo exhibit just across the street and she asked me to send the details with her photo and she would look forward to seeing it.
This is my 389th submission to The Human Family Group on Flickr.
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Gracias a una espectacular participación de la sociedad española se han vendido ya más de tres millones de pastillas contra el dolor ajeno. En estos días más que nunca.
Campaña de médicos sin fronteras
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1. Lock-Down, 2. Koru, 3. Lurking in the Shadows, 4. Wasp, 5. Tongariro Dawn, 6. Monochrome, 7. Royal Spoonbill, 8. Juvenile on a Tombstone,
9. Fearsome Yawn, 10. Spur-Winged Plovers, 11. "Nevermore", 12. Portrait of a Juvenile Magpie, 13. Back-Lighting, 14. Kea, 15. Flying Reptile, 16. Heron in Rain,
17. Kingfisher Perch, 18. Looking back to Ngauruhoe, 19. Magpie Fly-By, 20. Starfish Gathering, 21. Winter, 22. Tiger - Auckland Zoo, 23. Kelp Gull Flight, 24. Gazing at a Sunset Sky,
25. Albatross Fly-By, 26. Ruapehu Sunrise, 27. Dead Leaf, 28. Fungi on Pandora, 29. Land of Rainbows, 30. Kealakekua Bay, 31. Golden Plover, 32. Motutara,
33. Huge Ice, 34. A Walk in the Park, 35. MY POND!, 36. Tembo, 37. Clouds Over Ruapehu, 38. Stone Carving, 39. In-Flight Kingfisher, 40. Spoonbill Flight,
41. The Wild, Wild West, 42. Raven in Juneau, 43. Poles, 44. Brothers, 45. Close-Up in Kaikoura, 46. Tawhai Falls - Slow, 47. Legs, 48. Someone Did Not,
49. Sitting Bull, 50. Red-Tailed Black Cockatoo, 51. Little, Lost Bear, 52. Negative Tone - Positive Colour, 53. Winter Rocks, 54. Tui in the Bush, 55. Starfish on the Move, 56. Black Sand Balls,
57. Flax Head, 58. Octopus, 59. Walk This Way, 60. Only a Yawn, 61. Flower of Scotland, 62. Pachyderms, 63. Sparrow on the Wharf, 64. North Island Robin,
65. White-Faced Heron, 66. Saltwater Crocodile, 67. Huka Falls, 68. Kaikoura Sunset Sky, 69. Penny the Cat, 70. Pygmy Marmoset, 71. Soaring South of Kaikoura, 72. Close-Up Cat