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An idea that seemed distant to us is in our eyes every day...
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This series was inspired by an exchange with @Spaghetti Kid about shooting carnivorous plants using Lomochrome Metropolis. These are a few of the resulting images.
Shot with a Pentax MX
SMC Pentax-M 50mm f/4 Macro lens
Lomochrome Metropolis film
ISO 125, developed normally
Developed by The Darkroom
Scanned on a Coolscan 9000ED
"I want you to visit those in the depths, in order to destroy the work of the woman in whose image you were created !"
('Maria / Machine-Human' and diorama by MEZCO Toys / "Silent Screamers")
"METROPOLIS"
Expressionist epic science-fiction silent film (Germany, 1927)
Directed by Fritz Lang
I hate the way flickr displays panoramas. This looks tiny doesn't it? It is actually quite big. So please view it large or in light box or whatever Flickr forces us to do now. Incidentally, I don't like the light box thing. It is good to have pictures on black, but I think it makes every picture look soft. Maybe it is just me.
Anyway, this is a composite of 3 pictures taken from the top of the Helaba Main Tower in Frankfurt, Germany. I thought you might like to see what the actual view was like, rather than just a load of bokeh. And I didn't want you all to think I am all about bokeh! :D
It was very lovely up there really. A 360 degree panorama would be amazing! I would like to have been a bit lower though, so that the building were more against the skyline, as I think they get a bit lost the the background from this angle. These were shot handheld at iso 3200 and a maximum shutter speed of 1/30 and I was cold and shivering. I also didn't have much time to perform RAW processing, sharpening and noise reduction. So these were stitched SOOC, then edited as jpegs in photoshop. So, they are not the best quality. But I like how they came out. Specially the one I have posted, which was 'colorized' using the Nik Colour Efex program which I am growing to love! I hope you like this. I will post a colour version in the comments which I didn't like quite as much.
To all the Americans out there, Happy Thanksgiving, I hope you are having a good day and have eaten plenty and caught up with relatives and other such things :)
I have a set that automatically selects my least interesting work. This is in it. If you like it, leave a comment. If not, look around... almost every other picture is more interesting... according to Flickr...
Experimenting with the surfaces and textures of The Lloyds Building. This one felt very Minority Report.
Metrópolis.
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Puesta de luna tras el Edif METROPOLIS de Madrid.
Luna al 97%, tras muchos intentos por fin pudimos conseguir esta ansiada foto.
When converted to B&W, the ceiling in BCE Place reminded me instantly of the film, Metropolis (hence the title). I was so tempted to do a square crop but there are just too many metal lines and patterns that are screaming to be seen.
West Palm Beach is a city in and the county seat of Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. It is one of the three main cities in South Florida. The population was 99,919 at the 2010 census. The University of Florida Bureau of Economic and Business Research (BEBR) estimates a 2014 population of 104,031, a 4.1% increase from 2010. It is the oldest municipality in the Miami metropolitan area, having been incorporated as a city two years before Miami in November 1894. West Palm Beach is located approximately 68 miles (109 km) north of Downtown Miami. It is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census.
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El edificio Metrópolis es un famoso inmueble madrileño (España), de inspiración francesa, situado en la esquina de la calle de Alcalá con la Gran Vía.
Inaugurado el 21 de enero de 1911, fue adjudicado por concurso y diseñado por los arquitectos franceses Jules y Raymond Février para la compañía de seguros La Unión y el Fénix. La obra final la llevó a cabo el español Luis Esteve Fernández-Caballero, que la terminó en 1910.
Fue construido sobre el terreno liberado durante la construcción de la Gran Vía, al derruirse la conocida popularmente como "Casa del Ataúd", llamada así por lo estrecho del solar en donde se ubicaba, entre las calles de Alcalá y del Caballero de Gracia.
Sobre la austera planta baja, las plantas superiores, en estilo neorrenacimiento, están adornadas con columnas corintias y entablamentos que sirven de pedestal a estatuas alegóricas del Comercio, la Agricultura, la Industria y la Minería de los escultores Mariano Benlliure, Paul Landowski y De Lambert.
La torre circular está coronada por una cúpula de pizarra con incrustaciones doradas, que por su semejanza con el casco de los bomberos se denomina "estilo Pompier" (bombero en francés). Originariamente, soportaba el símbolo de la compañía, una estatua alegórica de bronce del Fénix sobre el cual había una figura humana con el brazo alzado representando a Ganímedes, realizada por el escultor René de Saint-Marceaux.
A principios de los setenta, la compañía vendió el edificio a sus dueños actuales, la aseguradora «Metrópolis». Los antiguos propietarios decidieron llevarse la estatua (por entonces elemento familiar del paisaje madrileño) a su edificio en el Paseo de la Castellana. Finalmente, la estatua fue reemplazada por otra que representa la Victoria Alada, obra de Federico Coullaut Valera; el Fénix original se encuentra ahora en el jardín de la sede de la Mutua Madrileña, en el número 33 del Paseo de la Castellana.
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... Series: "Los Paralelos" / "The Parallel" - "Temporal Fracture"
... Music: "Machines" by Giorgio Moroder ... from the OST of electronic - colored - rock version of the controversial but fabulous film "Metropolis", by Master Fritz Lang!!!
Miami (/maɪˈæmi/; Spanish pronunciation: [miˈami]) is a seaport city at the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Florida and its Atlantic coast. As the seat of Miami-Dade County, the municipality is the principal, central, and the most populous city of the Miami metropolitan area and part of the second-most populous metropolis in the southeastern United States.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Miami's metro area is the eighth-most populous and fourth-largest urban area in the U.S., with a population of around 5.5 million.
Miami is a major center, and a leader in finance, commerce, culture, media, entertainment, the arts, and international trade. In 2012, Miami was classified as an Alpha−World City in the World Cities Study Group's inventory. In 2010, Miami ranked seventh in the United States in terms of finance, commerce, culture, entertainment, fashion, education, and other sectors. It ranked 33rd among global cities. In 2008, Forbes magazine ranked Miami "America's Cleanest City", for its year-round good air quality, vast green spaces, clean drinking water, clean streets, and citywide recycling programs.
According to a 2009 UBS study of 73 world cities, Miami was ranked as the richest city in the United States, and the world's fifth-richest city in terms of purchasing power. Miami is nicknamed the "Capital of Latin America" and is the largest city with a Cuban-American plurality.
Miami has the third tallest skyline in the U.S. with over 300 high-rises. Downtown Miami is home to the largest concentration of international banks in the United States, and many large national and international companies. The Civic Center is a major center for hospitals, research institutes, medical centers, and biotechnology industries.
For more than two decades, the Port of Miami, known as the "Cruise Capital of the World", has been the number one cruise passenger port in the world. It accommodates some of the world's largest cruise ships and operations, and is the busiest port in both passenger traffic and cruise lines.
Metropolitan Miami is the major tourism hub in the American South, number two in the U.S. after New York City and number 13 in the world, including the popular destination of Miami Beach.
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The Mission Nombre de Dios Museum opened on September 4, 2010 in conjunction with the 445th anniversary celebration of the City of St. Augustine, Flroida and the relocation of the casket of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, the founder of the city. The Mission Museum is an entity of the Catholic Diocese of St. Augustine and is administered by the Mission Nombre de Dios and Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche.
The Mission Museum building was made possible through a donation from the Robert Ellert and JoAnn Crisp-Ellert estate. Planning and development of the museum was under the direction of the 1565 Committee. The 1565 Committee was originally formed to assist the diocese in preserving the records of the archives.
Exhibits Include:
The original casket of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, founder of the city of St. Augustine, dating to 1574. Menéndez, whose remains were in this casket until 1924, is buried in his hometown of Avilés, Spain.
Artifacts uncovered on the mission grounds during archaeological excavations led by Kathy Deagan, Ph.D. University of Florida
A replica of the oldest written European documents in the U.S.
Coquina stones from 1875 foundation of a shrine chapel built by Augustin Verot, the first bishop of the Diocese of St. Augustine
A diorama (hand carved description) of the first parish Mass in the U.S. celebrated by Fr. Francisco López de Mendoza Grajales on September 8, 1565.
Chalices and vestments from archives of the Diocese of St. Augustine.
A reproduction of the 1155 document from Avilés, Spain.
A 15 minute documentary featuring the reenactment of the 1565 founding of St. Augustine, the transfer of the casket in 1924 and 2010, and dedication of the museum on September 4, 2010.
A selection of painting by JoAnn Crisp-Ellert, renowned artist.
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Fort Lauderdale /ˌfɔərt ˈlɔːdərdeɪl/ (frequently abbreviated as Ft. Lauderdale) is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 28 miles (45 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 165,521. It is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census.
The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.
Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.
The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.
The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.
The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.
When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.
On July 4, 1961 African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962 a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.
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