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With this project I was inspired by an obelisk. I have always liked the way they stand out and I wanted to create something that had a bold presence. I also wanted to give the sense that the piece is moving in a way, as if the different parts were sliding off of each other and we are watching it happen. I used the shape of a triangle, but then cut it up. The diagonal lines create a sense of movement throughout the piece.
Watching the sun set through the pyramid of Journey Into Imagination pavilion in Future World at EPCOT Center
Two oddly modern pyramids at le Louvre.
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Giza Pyramids are one of the seven wonders of world whose construction has amazed the whole world.
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I had limited time on Thursday to start photographing Winnipeg neons at night, so I restricted myself to 4 locations which were reasonably close to my house. However, in travelling to these locations, surprisingly, I found at least twice that many neons to shoot. This is one of unplanned neons.
The Pyramid is a young people's club offering live rock bands. It was closed the night that I visited and there were no other lights nearby, so I was able to get this sign against a virtually black background. The club was previously called The Spectrum and had an even better neon.
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Pharao KHUFU built this pyramid in around 2560 B.C. It was originally 146.6 metres tall, but 4500 years has caused erosion to its present day height of 138.8 metres. It was the tallest man-made structure in the world for over 3800 years until 160 metres tall Lincoln Cathedral was built in around 1300 A.D.
The serpent steps on the Kukulkan Pyramid in Chichen Itza. They are not well-designed for walking. Instead, they are acoustically tuned to return the sound of a bird as an echo to a clap. Think about the work that went into figuring out how to do that...
We didn't think Everett would be able to balance on Violet's back.
(Ben and Sophie started crawling forward with Violet on their back, but I messed up the video I took of that...)
Like the Great Pyramid, a rock outcropping was used in the core. Due to the slope of the plateau, the northwest corner was cut 10 m (33 ft) out of the rock subsoil and the southeast corner is built up.
The pyramid is built of horizontal courses. The stones used at the bottom are very large, but as the pyramid rises, the stones become smaller, becoming only 50 cm (20 in) thick at the apex. The courses are rough and irregular for the first half of its height but a narrow band of regular masonry is clear in the midsection of the pyramid. At the northwest corner of the pyramid, the bedrock was fashioned into steps. Casing stones cover the top third of the pyramid, but the pyramidion and part of the apex are missing.
The bottom course of casing stones was made out of pink granite but the remainder of the pyramid was cased in Tura Limestone. Close examination reveals that the corner edges of remaining casing stones are not completely straight, but are staggered by a few millimeters. One theory is that this is due to settling from seismic activity. An alternative theory postulates that the slope on the blocks was cut to shape before being placed due to the limited working space towards the top of the pyramid.
From Wikipedia.
"And look at the Pyramid building. What other city would provide ring toss for aliens?" --Will Durst
What better place to spend our final few hours in Egypt than the Giza plateau, this time exploring the site by foot and visiting mastaba tombs (there are many here but only a couple can be visited) and Menkaure's pyramid, the only one of the three large pyramids we'd not entered before (the two largest we'd been inside on our first visit in 1995, this time queues for the Great Pyramid of Khufu were discouraging, and Khafre's was closed).
The Giza Pyramids need no introduction, the largest and most famous monuments of antiquity and the sole surviving of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World.
Situated on a desert plateau to the south west of Cairo (and indeed on the very edge of the city's modern urban sprawl) the pyramids of Giza form the heart of an extensive ancient necropolis with the monumental tombs of three of Egypt's earliest Old Kingdom pharaohs marked by the vast structures. Each of the pyramids is a colossal mass of near solid masonry, without adornment and with only a few passages within each leading to burial chambers long since emptied and robbed in antiquity.
The earliest is the Great Pyramid of Khufu (sometimes referred to by the Greek title 'Cheops', or by his full pharaonic name 'Khnum-Khufu'). It is also the largest; the structure is simply enormous and remained the World's tallest building until well into the Middle Ages.
The following pyramid was built by Khafre (also called 'Khephren') and is similarly vast (often appearing in photos of the whole group as larger due to its more central position) but is significantly smaller than Khufu's monument. The smallest of the three (at around less than half the size) was built by his successor Menkaure. Both his and Khufu's monuments have much smaller satellite pyramids at their base (some in more ruinous condition) to house the tombs of their queens.
Originally all the pyramids had a smooth outer covering of white stone but this was quarried away by later generations (much of which was used for some of Cairo's greatest Islamic monuments) leaving the rough inner blocks exposed. A small section remains at the apex of Khafre's pyramid (suggestive of a snow-capped mountain) to give a sense of the original finish and overall mass.
Today the site remains the most popular in Egypt and an astonishing testament to the skill and determination of its earliest builders.
The Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco, shot from the end of Pier 7. Bizarrely, I can hardly find any other shots from this vantage point, even though it seems really obvious to me. Maybe no-one else likes the symmetry...?
Looking at the EXIF data this was taken at about 2.29pm local time. I'd love to go back and shoot this again with a proper camera/lens, either much earlier or much later so the shadows on the pier are more prominent.
I used the inside version of the sunken Sonobe unit. The lampshade consists of three truncated square bipyramids.
Florida Elite, Semi Limited Senior Coed, Level 5, State Cheer and Dance Championships, Jacksonville, Florida
Pyramid Head topper made by Artisan Cake Company artisancakecompany.com/2012/11/pyramid-head-cake-topper/