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This is what performers see when on stage at the Detroit Opera House. 2700 people looking at you!
The Detroit Opera House is an ornate theater located in Downtown Detroit, Michigan. The 2,700-seat venue is the home of productions of the Michigan Opera Theater and a variety of other events. The theater was originally designed by C. Howard Crane, who created other prominent theaters in Detroit including The Fillmore Detroit, the Fox Theater and the Detroit Symphony's Orchestra Hall. It opened on January 22, 1922. The building underwent an extensive restoration which took place in the 1990s. It reopened in 1996.
Over the years, the theater has gone through several name changes, being:
Capitol Theater (1922–1929)
Paramount Theater (1929–1934)
Broadway Capitol Theater (1934–1960s)
Grand Circus Theater (1960s–1985)
My thanks go out to Gary the Longelistener, who works here, and gave me a spectacular tour of the place from stage to roof.
It has been a year and half since my wife and I took our last vacation! This time our moto was "go big or go home" and as the stars aligned for vacation times and work schedules we found ourselves shooting for a January vacation. We weighed the options and Australia, being their summer, seemed like a great choice. We planned, saved, and dreamed and months later, on a hot summer morning in January at 6am I found myself in front of the opera house in awe! I was realizing what seemed liked a totally crazy idea months before had really come true. I was in front of the opera house and it was beautiful!
The city was just starting to wakeup, and people were out for their daily runs and doing boxing workouts in the park! It was wonderful to see the city start to come alive! I tried so hard to take it all in. The smells, the sounds, and the feeling of the wind coming off the water. It was a moment I'll never forget!
How it was done:
Canon 5d mkII, 16-35mm II
35mm, F11, ISO 50, 196 sec (3min 15sec)
This photo was achieved use a Lee Big Stopper Filter, with a modified Coken Zpro Filter Holder. Only basic adjustments in Lightroom after import to achieve final look.
Grand escalier / The grand stairway. Charles Garnier long reflected on the design of the Grand Stairway for the new Opera. In the end, he drew inspiration from the Grand-Thétre in Bordeaux. The steps, which go from concave to convex, are made of white marble from Seravezza (Italy). They hug the curve of the onyx balustrade, the pedestal of which is in green marble from Sweden and the 128 balusters in antique red marble
The Opera Park reflects six themes: The English Garden, White Nordic Forest, Red North American Forest, Oak Forest, Cherry Grove and Tropical Greenhouse (The Growth House Restaurant or in Danish: Væksthuset Restaurant).
The Opera Park has been awarded the European Garden Award 2025 - marking the 10th award for the project! From a modest lawn to a lush park island in the heart of Copenhagen.
Architects: Cobe.
www.instagram.com/cobearchitects/
(cobe.dk/ - a new website is under construction)
The above shot is the Oslo Opera House in Norway. I visited Oslo just a few weeks before the mass shooting occurred and sometime before midsummer celebration. The nights were short and daylight was long. It was quite enjoyable and relaxing to shoot during blue hour as i didnt have to rush to get my shots due to the fact that the blue hour was basically the whole night.
The Opera House is the home of the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet and also the national opera theatre in Norway. It looks like a flat iceberg shape with inclined white lines. I went up the slope to its roof to get a view from above and somehow the seamless transition from wall to ceiling reminded me of skate parks. This place is surely a heaven for skaters plus i dont see any guards patrolling around this area.
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Digital Blending \ DRI
Manually blended from 3 exposures +/-2 EV
Shot @11mm, aperture of f/11 with ISO value of 200
Post processing and Adjustments in Photoshop CS4
The Sydney Opera House is an expressionist modern design, with a series of large precast concrete 'shells', each taken from a hemisphere of the same radius, forming the roofs of the structure. The Opera House covers 1.8 hectares (4.5 acres) of land. It is 183 metres (605 feet) long and about 120 metres (388 feet) wide at its widest point. It is supported on 580 concrete piers sunk up to 25 metres below sea level. Its power supply is equivalent for a town of 25,000 people. The power is distributed by 645 kilometres of electrical cable. -thank you wikipedia!
Cantonese opera is one of the major categories in Chinese opera, originating in southern China's Cantonese culture. It is popular in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore and Malaysia. Like all versions of Chinese opera, it is a traditional Chinese art form, involving music, singing, martial arts, acrobatics, and acting.