Gherkin reflections

At the Davenport Crack where the sunset that I was hoping for got lost in all the clouds…

Happy Sunday!

So, this shot has been sitting on my hard drive since I took it back in January 2017, I loved the fractured reflection and the sort of dark, surreal alternate reality it conveyed with golden glitter and distorted classic architecture. It's as if the building is saying, "Look at me" but it's not real, it's a distortion of reality taken from the surrounding buildings. Take away the reflection and it's dark building that struggles to convey power and strength, a false power and strength but alluring all the same. So it's with this in mind that it never got posted.

I decided to post it today because of some factors that seem to have come together. One is the obvious end of a four year nightmare and one has to do with me just missing a good walk in the city due to COVID. I've been looking through my archive folders at city pics that never were posted and thinking now is the time. Along this line, I was conversing with Leon, a new contact here on Flickr and was a bit surprised to find that he hadn't seen any architectural shots in my photostream. The reason goes back to not being able to get to NYC or any city for that matter since COVID started so not much architectural or travel photography in quite some time.

With this in mind it seems the time is right to post this shot.

Série " bleu " Abstraction .

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frozen - broken - melted - frozen

Taken @ sunnys studio

Pose used buddy wait

fractured.

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Just a bit mind boggling

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In the deep stillness of the night,

I look out over this city

it has just rained

and fog lies among

glistering pillars of iron and glass

I smile amused by how

the Los Angeles skyline looks like Gotham.

THE WEEKEND CHALLENGE -

B&W Shadows Red Isolation as detail.

Twenty years have passed, and the echoes of our loss remain a haunting reminder of how so fragile our world, our lives, our feelings can be. We came together as family, as friends, as loved ones would often do. What a sight for us all to see. Standing here today, a fractured world and left wondering what it all really means for you and me. It’s not just an American thing, it’s a people thing that clashes. Just remember we are all human, with just a few scratches……

Bert 9/11/2021

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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Kahlil Gibran

I made it to the front page (#6!) due to your interest in "Fractured," and I'm so honored for your support and comments.

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Digital Painting/ Fractals

My Textures (Free Textures by TCP)

Above the source of the river...capturing some autumn light

Just a bit of color blending with the Monarch wing and a fractured reflection I came across in NYC a few years back. All the best on this fine Sunday, Happy Slider Sunday.

Near the summit of Black Point (6959 ft.) is an area cracked with deep (30 - 50 Ft.) fissures. Thirteen thousand years ago this was a Volcano beneath a shallow ice age lake. The water levels dropped and the volcano became an island and then a peninsula. Parts of the sides of the fissures are covered with a layer of crystalline tufa (Thinolitic tufa). In the background are the Sierra Nevada Mountains and a portion of Mono lake can be seen. Mono county, California, U.S.A.

Orion Featherweight Camera with Magic Lens

ReraPan 400 film (127)

A collab with the always unique Sushi! A great laugh working with you as always my dear!😉🙏

Fuji X-Pro1, double exposure.

As with my previous photograph, "Fractured Reality I", this has been reassembled from the sections of yesterday's photograph of ancient rocks. They are similar, but noticeably different.

Diastictis fracturalis

(Identification by Seek iOS app, such a good resource)

Colourised infrared IR720

Canon 750D converted

Cityscape created for Award Tree's "Scaped and Abstract" challenge; and for Glow's "Painted Cities" challenge.

A misty morning at Wistmans Wood, Dartmoor :-)

London

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A macro photo of an etched CD.

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The heavens opened shortly after this picture was taken, I ended up drenched in this!

Seen from a balcony at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. I like the contrast of the older buildings with their fire escape ladders and "roof art" with the newer and taller steel andglass high rises.

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