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This is the Sydney Opera House about 45 minutes before dawn. It was almost dark, however I've post processed the image in CS6 to show how those huge glass panes add a modern cathedral look to the Opera House - I'd love to see it become a house of worship, and I think it would make it a perfect temple to worship the Supreme Being.
Exposure was about a minute at ISO 100 F22. I used a Hahnel Giga T Pro to interface with my camera. Something wrong with this device (hope it's just a battery).
Bear in mind that the shot was taken in near darkness from a distance of maybe 500 metres. This shot is about 10% of the original image area and has had almost no sharpening applied.
I think that's an astonishing result.
With respect to the Tokina 16-28 - I had wanted a Nikon 16-35 but the Tokina cost me $550 - less than half the price. I love the thing. As you can see from the crop, it's very sharp. I also think it has the "star Trek factor." It's such a nice piece of gear to hold in the hand. Heavy, precise and gorgeous, like the Nikon 24-70. I've noticed Sigma are making lenses with the Star Trek factor now, especially the 35 and 50 F1.4 art series. Nikon needs to address this. Nikon lenses for consumers are pretty mundane and the pro ones are prohibitively expensive.
The Palais Garnier is an elegant 1,979-seat opera house, which was built from 1861 to 1875 for the Paris Opera by the architect Charles Garnier. It was the primary home of the Paris Opera and its associated Paris Opera Ballet until 1989, when a new 2,700-seat house, the Opéra Bastille, with elaborate facilities for set and production changes, opened at the Place de la Bastille. The Paris Opera now mainly uses the Palais Garnier for ballet.
The Palais Garnier is probably the most famous opera house in the world, a symbol of Paris like Notre Dame cathedral, the Louvre, or the Sacré Coeur basilica. This is at least partly due to its use as the setting for Gaston Leroux's 1911 novel The Phantom of the Opera and the novel's subsequent adaptations in films and Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular 1986 musical. Another contributing factor is that among the buildings constructed in Paris during the Second Empire, besides being the most expensive, it has been described as the only one that is unquestionably a masterpiece of the first rank." (Wikipedia)
Local opera and movie house located in McConnelsville. Aptly named for McConnelsville and Malta, Ohio, that the opera house serves. A good write up of its history can be found at this link:
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A Ópera Garnier ou Palais Garnier é uma casa de ópera localizada no IX arrondissement de Paris, França. O edifício é considerado uma das obras-primas da arquitetura de seu tempo.
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Sichuanese opera (Chinese: 川劇 is a type of Chinese opera originating in China's Sichuan province around 1700.Today's Sichuan opera is a relatively recent synthesis of 5 historic melodic styles. Regionally Chengdu remains to be the main home of Sichuanese opera.
Overall the art form is well known for its singing, which is less constrained than that of the more popular Beijing opera form. Sichuan opera is more like a play than other forms of Chinese opera, and the acting is highly polished. The music accompanying Sichuanese opera utilizes a small gong and an instrument called a Muqin, which is similar to the Erhu.
The traditional formula is quite systematic with a combination of stunts like face-changing, tihuiyan, sword-hiding, fire-spitting and beard-changing with the plot and different characters.
Depending on the style, face paint is also limited compared to other related forms. Jing characters do not appear, and the only painted face characters are those with a small white patch in the middle of the face, which indicates a slightly evil character.The face paint colors are traditionally limited to black, red, white and grey.
View of an opera house. A sign visible on the building reads "The Cash Mercantile
Co."
Digital Collection:
North Carolina Postcards
Publisher:
Medlin & Austin
Location:
Monroe (N.C.); Union County (N.C.);
Collection in Repository
Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077); collection guide available
online at www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/77barbour/77barbour.html
De estilo neobarroco, la Ópera Garnier, también llamado Ópera de París o Palacio Garnier, fue construido por el arquitecto Charles Garnier a petición de Napoleón III. Desde que se inauguró en 1874 fue oficialmente la Academia Nacional de Música. En 1989 la Compañía de la Ópera fue trasladada hasta el recientemente construido Teatro de la Bastilla, que recibió ese nombre por estar erigido en el lugar donde antaño se alzaba la Bastilla. A pesar de este cambio el Palacio Garnier sigue siendo conocido cómo la Ópera de París y continúa siendo una referencia para los amantes de este género.
Como curiosidad os diré que los hechos acontecidos en la obra de Gastón Leroux, El Fantasma de la Ópera, transcurren en este edificio.
Intermission at the Budapest Opera House on the occasion of Mozart's 250th Birthday, marked with a performance of Don Giovanni
Sydney Opera House is a modern expressionist design, with a series of large precast concrete "shells", each composed of sections of a hemisphere of the same radius, forming the roofs of the structure, set on a monumental podium. The building covers 1.8 hectares of land and is 183 metres long and 120 metres wide at its widest point. It is supported on 588 concrete piers sunk as much as 25 metres below sea level.
The roofs of the House are covered in a subtle chevron pattern with 1,056,006 glossy white- and matte-cream-colored Swedish-made tiles from Höganäs AB, though, from a distance, the shells appear a uniform white.
A lot of construction work around the Opera House. The Bjørvika area is the site for the largest urban development project in Oslo for a long time. Finished it will look like this: www.bjorvikautvikling.no/toppmeny/english/about-bjorvika-...
The Opera House was donated to the Danish state by the A.P. Moller and Chastine Mc-Kinney Moller Foundation in August 2000 (A.P. Moller was a co-founder of the company now known as Maersk). Some politicians were offended by the private donation, in part because the full cost of the project would be tax deductible, thus virtually forcing the government to buy the building; but it was accepted by the Folketing and the government in the autumn of 2000. It was designed by the architect Henning Larsen and engineers Ramboll and Buro Happold and Theatre Consultant Theatreplan. The acoustics were designed by Arup Acoustics and architectural lighting design by Speirs and Major Associates. A.P. Moller had the final say in the design of the building, however, adding steel to the glass front, among other things. Construction began in June 2001 and was completed on October 1, 2004. It was opened on January 15, 2005 in the presence of M?rsk Mc-Kinney Moller, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, and Queen Margrethe II.
The tenor Placido Domingo made a gala guest appearance as Sigmund in Wagner's Die Walkure on April 7, 2006 (production by Kasper Bech Holten). The performance was attended by Queen Margrethe II. - wiki