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I photographed this panorama stitched using five RAW captures on the 6D while riding the Star Ferry across the Victoria Harbour, so camera shake is a bit of an issue for some of the images. But I feel that it is important to have an image which shows the complete length of the ship.
If you zoom in closer on the right hand side near the helicopters, you will see some people hanging around closed to the deck. Those people are in fact not standing on the ship but photographers lining up to photograph this boat on the entire roof of 海運大廈 Ocean Terminal [1] where the USS Peleliu (LHA-5) was docked in Hong Kong.
The rows of architecture on the left are residential development in Union Square, West Kowloon [2] featuring many gigantic “feng shui holes” whereas the architecture to the right are commercial architecture in Tsim Sha Tsui which are part of the 海港城 Harbour City shopping mall complex.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-04-18T16:27:34+0800
+ Dimensions: 8018 x 2014
+ Exposure: 1/100 sec at f/4.5
+ Focal Length: 100 mm
+ ISO: 160
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
+ Panorama FOV: 42 degree horizontal, 22 degree vertical
+ Panoramic Projection: Rectilinear
+ GPS: 22°17'25" N 114°9'58" E
+ Location: 中國香港九龍尖沙咀海港城 Harbour City, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
+ Subject: USS Peleliu (LHA-5), United States Navy at Ocean Terminal, Hong Kong
+ Workflow: Hugin 2012, Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130418.6D.01133-SML.20130418.6D.01137-Pano.Rectilinear.42x22
+ Series: Photojournalism, 全景攝影 Panoramic Photography
# Notes
1. Ocean Terminal (Chinese: 海運大廈) is a cruise terminal and shopping centre located on Canton Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Terminal,_Hong_Kong
2. Union Square is a commercial and residential real estate project in Hong Kong on the West Kowloon reclamation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Square_(Hong_Kong)
3. Harbour City (Chinese: 海港城) is a large shopping mall in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. It is part of a series of office blocks and hotels. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbour_City_(Hong_Kong)
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“海運大廈美國軍艦 USS Peleliu (LHA-5) Docked at Ocean Terminal” / USS Peleliu (LHA-5) in Hong Kong / 香港全景攝影 Hong Kong Panoramic Photography / SML.20130418.6D.01133-SML.20130418.6D.01137-Pano.Rectilinear.42x22
/ #Photojournalism #全景 #Pano #SMLPano #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #US #Navy #USS #Peleliu #LHA5 #planes #ships #military #Police #Architecture #OceanTerminal
www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8667485483/
www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8667485483/sizes/o/ (8018 x 2014)
Located about an hour drive from Kuala Lumpur in the district of Sepang, the Golden Palm Tree is a relatively new resort constructed on directly on top of the ocean. I was fortunate to stay there recently during my recent Malaysia vacation and it was a true find. All villas are constructed directly on top of the water with perfect ocean view.
The HDR opportunity was completely unexpected so this photo was photographed without a tripod, relying purely on my lens 'hanging' on the balcony. A series of photos were shot at -4 to 4 EV using the 50 f1.4. The lens produced quite a bit of chromatic abberation but at smaller sizes it's somewhat tolerable.
The HDR image was compiled using Photomatix Pro and tonemapped using the Detail Enhancer. The resulting tif was then sent to Photoshop, from which I used Nik's Dfine 2.0 to remove much luminance and color noise. I then tweaked the colors, curves and apply various USM in Lab mode to properly control the colors.
In various historic religious texts, there has been mentions of the opening of the sky. When it is cloudy as today, what was seen as the clouds sow dissipates and revealed the golden light from the sun, it looks almost like a painting coming directly from paintings seen in the Renaissance period.
The natural vignette from the 24-70 is quite strong, as I now finally get to photograph with a full-frame body. Here it is actually profile corrected but the extreme contrast from the shield sunlight still adds to the mystery of its all.
As with all challenging processing I utilised Photoshop’s Lab mode to extract detail while keeping color information in check.
# SML Translate: 日落天開雲中現
+ 日: sun.
+ 落: down.
+ 天: sky.
+ 開: opens.
+ 雲: clouds.
+ 中: within (the clouds).
+ 現: appears.
+ 日落天開雲中現: the sky opens and within the clouds you can see the golden sunset.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-04-16T17:51:32+0800
+ Dimensions: 5472 x 3648
+ Exposure: 1/1250 sec at f/2.8
+ Focal Length: 66 mm
+ ISO: 100
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L USM
+ GPS: 22°25'10" N 114°13'26" E
+ Location: SML Universe HKG
+ Workflow: Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130416.6D.00779.P1.L1
+ Series: 寧 Serenity
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“日落天開雲中現” / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130416.6D.00779.P1.L1
/ #寧 #Serenity #SMLSerenity #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #自然 #Nature #山水 #landscape #雲 #Cloud #Cloudscape #天 #空 #Sky #Sunset
This is the facade of the Water Cube (水立方) looking from the inside to the outside. The outer wall is based on the Weaire–Phelan structure, a structure devised from the natural pattern of bubbles in soap lather. Each bubble has its own unique shape—no single shape is alike. Ground was broken on December 24, 2003, and the Center was completed and handed over for use on January 28, 2008.
The total construction cost was ￥940 million yuan / $ 140 million USD / € 94 million EUR. Architects responsible for the work include PTW Architects, CSCEC, CCDI, and Arup.
Photographed with the Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM.
# More Information
+ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_National_Aquatics_Center
水立方北京國家游泳中心 The Water Cube, Beijing National Aquatics Center / 中國北京體育建築之形 Sports architecture forms in Beijing, China / SML.20140502.6D.31821.P1.BW
Drawing, seen at the Brooklyn Art Project headquarter in Dumbo, during the Art Under the Bridge Festival organized by Dumbo Arts Center in New York city, 2009.
James Cospito (Brooklyn Art Project / Facebook / Flickr / LinkedIn / SML Flickr / Twitter) is an artist, painter, photographer, illustrator, designer in New York City. He is also the co-founder of Brooklyn Art Project.
You can check out James Cospito's portfolio at brooklynartproject.ning.com/profile/jcospito
See also the 720p high-def video of James Cospito talking about BAP on Flickr.
Brooklyn Art Project (FriendFeed / Twitter) is a free online social network that connects 5500+ artists, collectors, and art enthusiasts from over 44 countries featuring over 44,000 artworks and 800+ short films and videos.
Members can participate in collaborative exhibits in Brooklyn and beyond while enjoying unlimited online gallery space, blogs, forums, chat, and tools to share / promote their artwork across the web.
See also
+ Artits on Art: James Cospito talks about his NYC Subway series (Flickr HD video)
+ Art + Artists: James Cospito talks about Brooklyn Art Project (Flickr HD video)
13th annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® (Sept 25 to Sept 27, 2009)
www.dumboartfestival.org/press_release.html
The three-day multi-site neighborhood-wide event is a one-of-a-kind art happening: where serendipity meets the haphazard and where the unpredictable, spontaneous and downright weird thrive. The now teenage D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® presents touchable, accessible, and interactive art, on a scale that makes it the nation's largest urban forum for experimental art.
Art Under the Bridge is an opportunity for young artists to use any medium imaginable to create temporary projects on-the-spot everywhere and anywhere, completely transforming the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, New York, into a vibrant platform for self-expression. In addition to the 80+ projects throughout the historical post-industrial waterfront span, visitors can tour local artists' studios or check out the indoor video_dumbo, a non-stop program of cutting-edge video art from New York City and around the world.
The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) has been the exclusive producer of the D.U.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge Festival® since 1997. DAC is a big impact, small non-profit, that in addition to its year-round gallery exhibitions, is committed to preserving Dumbo as a site in New York City where emerging visual artists can experiment in the public domain, while having unprecedented freedom and access to normally off-limit locations.
Related SML
+ SML Flickr Collections: Events
+ SML Flickr Sets: Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009
Mixed media paintings by Dean Russo (Facebook). Photographed inside the artist's studio during Dumbo Art Festival in 2009.
Dean Russo on the Web
13th annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® (Sept 25 to Sept 27, 2009)
www.dumboartfestival.org/press_release.html
The three-day multi-site neighborhood-wide event is a one-of-a-kind art happening: where serendipity meets the haphazard and where the unpredictable, spontaneous and downright weird thrive. The now teenage D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® presents touchable, accessible, and interactive art, on a scale that makes it the nation's largest urban forum for experimental art.
Art Under the Bridge is an opportunity for young artists to use any medium imaginable to create temporary projects on-the-spot everywhere and anywhere, completely transforming the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, New York, into a vibrant platform for self-expression. In addition to the 80+ projects throughout the historical post-industrial waterfront span, visitors can tour local artists' studios or check out the indoor video_dumbo, a non-stop program of cutting-edge video art from New York City and around the world.
The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) has been the exclusive producer of the D.U.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge Festival® since 1997. DAC is a big impact, small non-profit, that in addition to its year-round gallery exhibitions, is committed to preserving Dumbo as a site in New York City where emerging visual artists can experiment in the public domain, while having unprecedented freedom and access to normally off-limit locations.
Related SML
+ SML Flickr Collections: Events
+ SML Flickr Sets: Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009
Designed by C.Y. Lee & partners and constructed primarily by KTRT Joint Venture, the Taipei 101 (台北101), is a landmark skyscraper located in Xinyi District, Taipei. When construction was completed in 2004, it was the world’s tallest until the opening of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai in 2010.
The tower comprises 101 floors above ground and 5 underground. It was architecturally created as a symbol of the evolution and technology and Asian tradition. It has an architectural height of 509 m (1,669.9 ft) and its top flooris at 439 m (1,440.3 ft).
Photographed with the Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L USM. Processed in Lightroom 5.
www.taipei-101.com.tw/index_en.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei_101
台北101 Taipei 101 / 台灣台北 Taipei, Taiwan / SML.20140211.6D.30707.L1
/ #台灣 #臺灣 #Taiwan #台北 #Taipei #SMLTravel #旅遊 #旅游 #Travel #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #建筑 #建築 #architecture #形 #forms #SMLForms
The Innovation Tower [1] designed by Pritzker-prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid [2] for Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s School of Design is one of those amazing architectures which I have been following since its inception—and am so glad to see it being built.
Zaha Hadid is one of my all time favorite architects, and this building will be her first permanent architectural works in Hong Kong—but hopefully not the last. As many people in the architecture world know, what is seen on paper rarely get built, so it was truly amazing to see this in person yesterday when I went to do location scouting at the PolyU yesterday.
The bamboo scaffolding has just started to be taken apart. For those who are unfamiliar with Chinese traditional structural engineering, almost all buildings in Hong Kong were built in this manner [3]. Not only are bamboo scaffolding uses nylon straps to tie knots as couplers. They are structurally strong yet light enough to carry around, thus speeding up the process to build skyscrapers both efficiently and safely.
# Notes
1. Innovation Tower: Wikipedia: EN: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation_Tower
2. Zaha Hadid Architects: Innovation Tower: www.zaha-hadid.com/architecture/innovation-tower/
3. Scaffolding Materials: Wikipedia: EN: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaffolding#Materials
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-04-25T16:46:58+0800
+ Dimensions: 3648 x 5472
+ Exposure: 1/3200 sec at f/4.0
+ Focal Length: 17 mm
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°18'19" N 114°10'50" E
+ Location: 香港理工大學 Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130425.6D.03058
+ Series: 建築 Architecture, 形 Forms, Crazyisgood
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“Bamboo Scaffolding Unveiling: Innovation Tower by Zaha Hadid” / 香港理工大學建築之形 Hong Kong Polytechnic University Architecture Forms / Crazyisgood / SML.20130425.6D.03058
/ #建築 #建筑 Architecture #形 #Forms #SMLForms #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects #Crazyisgood
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #理工大學 #PolyU #攝影 #摄影 #photography #城市 #Urban #大學 #University #ZahaHadid
Artworks which are character-driven is an unusual thread seen in Asian contemporary artworks. In Japanese pop art, Yoshitomo Nara has his innocent girls and lonesome puppies. In Indonesia, artist Samsul Arifin created a whole series of work surrounding a kapok-stuffed doll with goggly plastic eyes—Goni.
The sculpture in the foreground is titled “Musafir Artist”, where Goni is seen riding a camel-like figure while carrying a bag of artist supplies with him on a journey out. In the back, a painting (triptych) titled “Petualang Ilmu di Negeri Unta” (Knowledge of the adventurous camel? Google Translate).
To the gallerists whom I talked to, Goni is seen as the artist’s own avatar, and through this avatar the artist is writing his own autobiography in the works of his art.
Samsul Arifin was born in 1979. I was as surprised as you to find someone younger than me with works at Art Basel. Indonesia is truly full of surprises. You see why I am planning for a visit soon?
Crazyisgood. SML Love.
Samsul Arifin (b. 1979 Indonesia)
Musafir Artist #1
2013
Resin, leather, jute, steel, wood
240 x 210 x 60 cm
Samsul Arifin (b. 1979 Indonesia)
Petualang Ilmu di Negeri Unta
2013
acrylic on canvas
300 x 600 cm (triptych)
# Samsul Arifin
b. March 5, 1979 in Malang, Indonesia
# Nadi Gallery
Based in Jakarta, Nadi Gallery is an art gallery founded by Biantoro Santoso, a young collector of Indonesian art. The Indonesian word nadi means "aorta", "artery", "vein" that evokes the idea of signaling pulsation. Without pulsation, the aorta soon looses its significance for life. As the name indicates, the Gallery's principal programs of exhibitions have been aspiring to present the pulses of recent developments in contemporary art in Indonesia.
Jl. Kembang Indah III Blok G3 no. 4-5 Puri Indah
Jakarta 11610
Indonesia
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-05-23T16:35:22+0800
+ Dimensions: 5215 x 3477
+ Exposure: 1/30 sec at f/4.0
+ Focal Length: 20 mm
+ ISO: 100
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°16'58" N 114°10'22" E
+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.13970
+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“Mixed Media Sculpture by Samsul Arifin (b.1979): Musafir Artist #1, 2013 (“Goni”: Resin, leather, jute, steel, wood)” / Nadi Gallery / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13970
/ #Photojournalism #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLFineArt #Crazyisgood #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #Art #FineArt #ArtBasel #ABHK #SamsulArifin #NadiGallery #Indonesia #Goni
Kam Tai Court (錦泰苑) is a HOS court in Ma On Shan, built on the reclaimed land along Tide Cove shoreline, near MTR Tai Shui Hang Station. It has totally 12 blocks completed in 2000.
Sometimes in rendering photographs like these I am a bit undecided if I should push their contrasts and vibrance. The photograph was taken on a cloudy day, so it lacks color details. I also never really liked this shade of teal/green. They “feel” like public toilets to me. I can’t quite explain why.
From afar it would seem that the dark green was painted to echo with the greens of the mountain next to it (馬鞍山 Ma On Shan) but as Heidi Klum likes to say in Project Runway, matchie-matchie is no style at all. I tend to agree with that philosophy.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-02-26 13:46:49 GMT+0800
+ Dimensions: 3308 x 4961
+ Exposure: 1/400 sec at 4/5.6
+ Focal Length: 280 mm
+ ISO: 100
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM + Canon EF 1.4x Extender III
+ GPS: 22°25'14" N 114°13'26" E
+ Location: 中國香港馬鞍山海濱長廊 中国香港马鞍山海滨长廊 Ma On Shan Promenade, Hong Kong, China
+ Subject: 中國香港馬鞍山錦泰苑 中国香港马鞍山锦泰苑 Kam Tai Court, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, China
+ Workflow: Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130226.7D.24728.P1.L1
+ Series: 形 Forms
“17777” / 香港公共屋邨建築之形 Hong Kong Public Housing Architecture Forms / SML.20130226.7D.24728.P1.L1
/ #形 #Forms #SMLForms #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #馬鞍山 #MaOnShan #建築 #建筑 #Architecture #城市 #Urban #攝影 #摄影 #photography #公共 #Public #屋邨 #Housing
李占洋 Li Zhanyang’s sculpture gives a glimpse of what it is like to live in China. Born in Changchun, Jilin Province in 1969, he has been drawn to crowds since he was a child. So when he moved to a big city like Beijing in his late twenties, he found himself spending hours in bars, gambling dens, railway stations (pictured), brothels and bus stops. Afterwards he would go home and sculpt the scenes he has observed from memory.
When I visited cities in mainland China, I am also in awe with the amount of people everywhere, all minding their own business. In that regard, Li Zhanyang’s sculptural interpretation is a true reflection of the modern China.
This work is like a holographic 3D video still from a capture. And it was funny to me as it features three gigantic signage types which can be seen across all railway stations in China:
1. “第三候車大厅” (Train waiting area no. 3). The often obnoxiously huge characters which designate the name of the location usually placed on the facade of Chinese architectures.
2. “严禁也携带易燃易爆有毒等危险品进站上車” (Do not bring flammable, combustible, toxic or other dangerous objects into the station nor alight the trains). Official warning signs plastered everywhere at the station.
3. “嘉陵摩托” (Jialing Motors). Advertising everywhere there is space.
In this artwork, there are the Chinese Literation Army attempting to the keep the crowd in line, the bourgeois making space. Sea of people everywhere. Advertising everywhere. Modern China is full of chaos. And this artwork captures that reality honestly and magically.
Li Zhanyang
Railway Station
2004-2006
Bronze, Ed. 2/4
198.2 x 42.5 x 98.5 cm / 78 x 16 3/4 x 38 3/4 in
Signed, dated and numbered recto lower left: Li Zhanyang 2004 2/4
李占洋
火車站
2004-2006
青銅, Ed. 2/4
198.2 x 42.5 x 98.5 cm / 78 x 16 3/4 x 38 3/4 in
簽名, 日期和編號於作品正面左下: Li Zhanyang 2004 2/4
# Li Zhanyang (b.1969)
Born in Changchun, Jilin Province, China.
Lives and works in Beijing and Chongqing, China.
# References
+ www.whiterabbitcollection.org/artists/li-zhanyang/
+ www.galerieursmeile.com/artists/artists/li-zhanyang/
# Galerie Karsten Greve
Drususgasse 1-5
50667 Cologne
Germany
5, rue Debelleyme
75003 Paris
France
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-05-23T16:10:06+0800
+ Dimensions: 4622 x 2344
+ Exposure: 1/40 sec at f/8.0
+ Focal Length: 23 mm
+ ISO: 800
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°16'58" N 114°10'22" E
+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.13894
+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“Sculpture by Li Zhanyang 李占洋: Railway Station (火車站), 2004-2006. (青銅 Bronze, Ed. 2/4)” / Galerie Karsten Greve AG St. Mortiz / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13894
/ #Photojournalism #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLFineArt #Crazyisgood #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #Art #FineArt #ArtBasel #ABHK #LiZhanyang #李占洋 #GalerieKarstenGreve #Sculpture #Bronze #crowd
Someone on Facebook asked to see a color version of an HDR photo previously processed in BW [1]. This is not the same capture but it was photographed at about the same time.
The HDR was merged inside Photomatix Pro, which sometimes do a decent job but sometimes create these weird color cast that was difficult to manage. So I might try using Photoshop to do the HDR conversion later.
But here you see why I did not process this in color, as mainly the hills in the back has a blue cast from the air whereas the color information does not really help. In the front, the sky is reddish whereas further away they are yellowish. Processing in black and white is almost a cop-out but when color information is not helping I generally prefer working on photographs in black and white — because it is the cloud forms which should be the star here, not the blue sky and awkward color-casts in the mountains.
…in my opinion.
# Notes
1. “風和日麗白雲錦 Cloudscape on a sunny day” / 寧 Serenity HDR / SML.20130509.6D.05650_1_2.HDR.BW: www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8721922705/
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-05-09T13:28:43+0800
+ Dimensions: 3506 x 5259
+ Exposures: 1/640, 1/4000, 1/80 sec at f/11
+ Focal Length: 17 mm
+ ISO: 100
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
+ Accessories: Canon TC-80N3, Manfrotto tripod
+ GPS: 22°25'22" N 114°13'29" E
+ Location: 香港馬鞍山海濱長廊 Ma On Shan Promenade, Hong Kong
+ Subject: 香港中文大學 Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) + 吐露港 Tolo Harbour
+ Workflow: Photomatix Pro 4.2.5b, Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130509.6D.05631_2_3.HDR.P1.L1
+ Series: 寧 Serenity, 高動態範圍攝影 HDR Photography
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“白雲如綿 陽光乍現 Moments of sunshine amongst puffy clouds” / 寧 Serenity HDR / SML.20130509.6D.05631_2_3.HDR.P1.L1
/ #寧 #Serenity #SMLSerenity #HDR #SMLHDR #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #山水 #landscape #雲 #Cloud #Cloudscape #自然 #Nature #CUHK #lensflare #sky
Copper and iron vats (銅鐵缸) were part of the fire-fighting equipment in the palace. They were filled with water to be used to douse fires. From October to February every year, the vats were covered with quilts to prevent water freezing, and on very cold days they would be heated by charcoal fires.
The oldest vats were cast during the Hongzhi reign period (1488-1505) of the Ming Dynasty. Each of the Ming Dynasty vats has two simple iron rings. The Qing Dynasty vats (pictured) have two beast-shaped bronze rings, a big belly and a small mouth.
The Palace has a total of 308 copper and iron vats of various sizes. Of them, 18 are copper vats inlaid with gold, which are located on both sides of the Hall of Supreme Harmony (太和殿 Tai He Dian), the Hall of Preserved Harmony (保和殿 Bao He Dian) and the Gate of Heavenly Purity (乾清門 Qian Qing Men).
Photographed near the Hall of Supreme Harmony with the the Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L USM.
銅鐵缸 Copper and iron vats / 中國北京故宫 Forbidden City, Beijing, China / SML.20140430.6D.31431.P1
Rhythm and proportions. Found typography.
I think that I found Rainbow Teddy’s long lost cousin in the window. :)
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-02-19 13:45:16 GMT+0800
+ Dimensions: 3384 x 5076
+ Exposure: 1/1000 sec at f/5.6
+ Focal Length: 137 mm
+ ISO: 100
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM + Canon EF 1.4x Extender III
+ GPS: 22°25'5" N 114°13'39" E
+ Location: 中國香港馬鞍山恆安邨恆日樓 中国香港马鞍山恒安村恒日楼 Heng Yat House, Heng On Estate, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, China
+ Serial: SML.20130219.7D.23244
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Series: 形 Forms
“E” 香港公共屋邨建築之形 Hong Kong Public Housing Architecture Forms / SML.20130219.7D.23244.CR2
/ #形 #Forms #SMLForms #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #馬鞍山 #MaOnShan #建築 #建筑 #Architecture #城市 #Urban #攝影 #摄影 #photography #公共 #Public #屋邨 #Housing
Detail of the three levels of marble stone base of the Hall of Supreme Harmony (太和殿). If you look closely, you will see that the there is a little hole for water outlet on each of the bases. This shows that these architectures are not just beautiful, but also very functional.
Photographed with the Canon EOS 7D + Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM.
# More Information
+ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_of_Supreme_Harmony
太和殿 Hall of Supreme Harmony / 中國北京紫禁城 Forbidden City, Beijing, China / SML.20140430.7D.51973.P1
This shows how fishermen in Hong Kong sun-dry their seafood. The fresh catches are placed on trays supported by beams and left in open-air right near the fishing boats—talk about convenience. The shells from the shellfish are then immediately discarded right at the beach (foreground). After that, it’s just a matter of time and patience.
The foggy cityscape in the background is not Hong Kong but Shenzhen. Lau Fau Shan (流浮山) is located at the very northwest corner of Hong Kong, so you would be able to peer China from this distance.
曬海味 Drying seafoods under the afternoon sun / 中國飲食文化 Chinese Food Culture / SML.20131118.6D.30250.P1
I just remembered Dan Margulis' large radius USM super sharpening technique and I made these cheese yummier than life!
See also Agata Olek talks about her 100% Acrylic Art Guards (Flickr 720p HD video)
Agata Olek (Flickr)
100% Acrylic Art Guards
"I think crochet, the way I create it, is a metaphor for the complexity and interconnectedness of our body and its systems and psychology. The connections are stronger as one fabric as opposed to separate strands, but, if you cut one, the whole thing will fall apart.
Relationships are complex and greatly vary situation to situation. They are developmental journeys of growth, and transformation. Time passes, great distances are surpassed and the fabric which individuals are composed of compiles and unravels simultaneously."
Agata Olek Biography. The SPLAT! of colors hits you in the face, often clashing so ostentatiously that it instantly tunes you into the presence of severely cheeky humor. A moment later the fatigue of labor creeps into your fingers as a coal miner's work ethic becomes apparent. Hundreds of miles of crocheted, weaved, and often recycled materials are the fabric from which the wild and occasionally wearable structures of her fantasylands are born.
Olek was born Agata Oleksiak in Poland and graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland with a degree in cultural studies. In New York, she rediscovered her ability to crochet and since then she has started her crocheted journey/madness.
Resume sniffers may be pleased to know Olek's work has been presented in galleries from Brooklyn to Istanbul to Venice and Brazil, featured in "The New York Times", "Fiberarts Magazine", "The Village Voice", and "Washington Post" and drags a tail of dance performance sets and costumes too numerous to mention.
Olek received the Ruth Mellon Award for Sculpture, was selected for 2005 residency program at Sculpture Space, 2009 residency in Instituto Sacatar in Brazil, and is a winner of apex art gallery commercial competition. Olek was an artist in an independent collective exhibition, "Waterways," during the 49th Venice Biennale. She was also a featured artist in "Two Continents Beyond," at the 9th International Istanbul Biennale.
Olek herself however can be found in her Greenpoint studio with a bottle of spiced Polish vodka and a hand rolled cigarette aggressively re-weaving the world as she sees.
13th annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® (Sept 25 to Sept 27, 2009)
www.dumboartfestival.org/press_release.html
The three-day multi-site neighborhood-wide event is a one-of-a-kind art happening: where serendipity meets the haphazard and where the unpredictable, spontaneous and downright weird thrive. The now teenage D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® presents touchable, accessible, and interactive art, on a scale that makes it the nation's largest urban forum for experimental art.
Art Under the Bridge is an opportunity for young artists to use any medium imaginable to create temporary projects on-the-spot everywhere and anywhere, completely transforming the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, New York, into a vibrant platform for self-expression. In addition to the 80+ projects throughout the historical post-industrial waterfront span, visitors can tour local artists' studios or check out the indoor video_dumbo, a non-stop program of cutting-edge video art from New York City and around the world.
The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) has been the exclusive producer of the D.U.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge Festival® since 1997. DAC is a big impact, small non-profit, that in addition to its year-round gallery exhibitions, is committed to preserving Dumbo as a site in New York City where emerging visual artists can experiment in the public domain, while having unprecedented freedom and access to normally off-limit locations.
Related SML
+ SML Flickr Collections: Events
+ SML Flickr Sets: Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009
See also Agata Olek talks about her 100% Acrylic Art Guards (Flickr 720p HD video)
Agata Olek (Flickr)
100% Acrylic Art Guards
"I think crochet, the way I create it, is a metaphor for the complexity and interconnectedness of our body and its systems and psychology. The connections are stronger as one fabric as opposed to separate strands, but, if you cut one, the whole thing will fall apart.
Relationships are complex and greatly vary situation to situation. They are developmental journeys of growth, and transformation. Time passes, great distances are surpassed and the fabric which individuals are composed of compiles and unravels simultaneously."
Agata Olek Biography. The SPLAT! of colors hits you in the face, often clashing so ostentatiously that it instantly tunes you into the presence of severely cheeky humor. A moment later the fatigue of labor creeps into your fingers as a coal miner's work ethic becomes apparent. Hundreds of miles of crocheted, weaved, and often recycled materials are the fabric from which the wild and occasionally wearable structures of her fantasylands are born.
Olek was born Agata Oleksiak in Poland and graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland with a degree in cultural studies. In New York, she rediscovered her ability to crochet and since then she has started her crocheted journey/madness.
Resume sniffers may be pleased to know Olek's work has been presented in galleries from Brooklyn to Istanbul to Venice and Brazil, featured in "The New York Times", "Fiberarts Magazine", "The Village Voice", and "Washington Post" and drags a tail of dance performance sets and costumes too numerous to mention.
Olek received the Ruth Mellon Award for Sculpture, was selected for 2005 residency program at Sculpture Space, 2009 residency in Instituto Sacatar in Brazil, and is a winner of apex art gallery commercial competition. Olek was an artist in an independent collective exhibition, "Waterways," during the 49th Venice Biennale. She was also a featured artist in "Two Continents Beyond," at the 9th International Istanbul Biennale.
Olek herself however can be found in her Greenpoint studio with a bottle of spiced Polish vodka and a hand rolled cigarette aggressively re-weaving the world as she sees.
13th annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® (Sept 25 to Sept 27, 2009)
www.dumboartfestival.org/press_release.html
The three-day multi-site neighborhood-wide event is a one-of-a-kind art happening: where serendipity meets the haphazard and where the unpredictable, spontaneous and downright weird thrive. The now teenage D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® presents touchable, accessible, and interactive art, on a scale that makes it the nation's largest urban forum for experimental art.
Art Under the Bridge is an opportunity for young artists to use any medium imaginable to create temporary projects on-the-spot everywhere and anywhere, completely transforming the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, New York, into a vibrant platform for self-expression. In addition to the 80+ projects throughout the historical post-industrial waterfront span, visitors can tour local artists' studios or check out the indoor video_dumbo, a non-stop program of cutting-edge video art from New York City and around the world.
The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) has been the exclusive producer of the D.U.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge Festival® since 1997. DAC is a big impact, small non-profit, that in addition to its year-round gallery exhibitions, is committed to preserving Dumbo as a site in New York City where emerging visual artists can experiment in the public domain, while having unprecedented freedom and access to normally off-limit locations.
Related SML
+ SML Flickr Collections: Events
+ SML Flickr Sets: Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009
With the growth of cities, many people from Chinese villages also moved to the urban area hoping for a better life. But as you can see, life is hard and jobs are not necessarily readily available for everyone.
Pictured is a woman kneeling down and begging for change in a dire yet sincere manner, and a man working hard to collect trash into a cart wheel.
艱苦的生活 Hard life / 中國北京南鑼鼓巷 Nanluoguxiang, Beijing, China / SML.20140503.6D.31995.P1.SQ.BW
Similar to an earlier shot, this is about seeing differences among similar things—“same but not equal”.
Pullman Quay Grand Sydney Harbour, 61 Macquarie Street, East Circular Quay, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia. Photographed with the Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM far across the Sydney Harbour.
Blue + White / Hotel architecture forms in Sydney, Australia / SML.20140315.6D.30931.P1
Most people like to see the end result, but I prefer seeing the process. I believe that process is an important part, without it you cannot have the result.
Here's a mixed media painting in progress, seen at Dean Russo's artist studio during the 13th Annual Art Under the Bridge Festival organized by the Dumbo Arts Center in New York City in 2009.
During our interview, Dean told me about his entire process in creating his mixed media paintings, as long as I don't record it nor write it down. As such, I cannot really write about it either but all I can say is that I find it very interesting — that an artist workflow is not far from that from designers (my primary profession).
Dean Russo on the Web
13th annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® (Sept 25 to Sept 27, 2009)
www.dumboartfestival.org/press_release.html
The three-day multi-site neighborhood-wide event is a one-of-a-kind art happening: where serendipity meets the haphazard and where the unpredictable, spontaneous and downright weird thrive. The now teenage D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® presents touchable, accessible, and interactive art, on a scale that makes it the nation's largest urban forum for experimental art.
Art Under the Bridge is an opportunity for young artists to use any medium imaginable to create temporary projects on-the-spot everywhere and anywhere, completely transforming the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, New York, into a vibrant platform for self-expression. In addition to the 80+ projects throughout the historical post-industrial waterfront span, visitors can tour local artists' studios or check out the indoor video_dumbo, a non-stop program of cutting-edge video art from New York City and around the world.
The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) has been the exclusive producer of the D.U.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge Festival® since 1997. DAC is a big impact, small non-profit, that in addition to its year-round gallery exhibitions, is committed to preserving Dumbo as a site in New York City where emerging visual artists can experiment in the public domain, while having unprecedented freedom and access to normally off-limit locations.
Related SML
+ SML Flickr Collections: Events
+ SML Flickr Sets: Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009
It was raining all day when I visited Chang Bai Mountain (長白山). It was also very cold and I ended up shivering the entire time. I ended up not taking my tripod with me mostly because of the weight, so I turned to time-lapse stacks for long exposures again.
Photographed with the Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L USM. 8-second LE via median stack of 11.
河水 River / 中國東北長白山 Chang Bai Mountain, Dongbei, China / SML.20140726.6D.33208-SML.20140726.6D.33218-St.BW
Yellow tree leaves wiggle ever so slightly against the stark blue facade of the Sydney Business School, signalling the coming of spring.
Photographed with the Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L near Circular Quay Station, Sydney, Australia.
Nature vs Manmade: Yellow vs Blue / Forms in Sydney, Australia / SML.20140314.6D.30843
Woodcut spots from Damien Hirst. This series need no introduction. Each print is an abstract representation of a biochemical compound, expressed as a spot color from circular wood cuts.
It is hard for me to talk about Damien Hirst. On the one hand, I see a gifted and very talented artist who produces brilliant works. On the other, an artist-turned-factory who has become so commercialized that he would need to come up with all kinds of methods to pump up works to please the high demands for his work.
Andy Warhol likes to say that “making money is art, and working is art and good business is the best art.” But I tend to have a problem with art created purely to make money. Mondrian’s early works are brilliant and full of ideas, but the Mondrian after he has becoming the darling of his times left little to be desired.
These “limited edition prints” is probably the worse of this trend—making quick bucks in the art market, each asking approximately four-thousand pounds on today’s market. I have no doubt that these works are key to supporting the artist’s livelihood and thus allows him to be the richest living artist in Britain.
Art to me is pure magic, but in these works I see nothing but a money-making machine disguised as something fine but has no soul except the greed within.
Damien Hirst
Thr-ser (1-inch woodcut spot)
2012
Woodcut
55 editions
Hand signed and numbered
A series of woodcut printed on 410 gsm Somerset White textured paper. Signed by the artist on the front and numbered on the reverse in an edition of 55.
# Damien Hirst
Damien Steven Hirst (born 7 June 1965) is an English artist, entrepreneur and art collector. He is the most prominent member of the group known as the Young British Artists (or YBAs), who dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s. He is internationally renowned, and is reportedly Britain's richest living artist, with his wealth valued at £215m in the 2010 Sunday Times Rich List. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Hirst
# Paragon Press
6 Wetherby Gardens
London SW5 0JN
United Kingdom
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+ Lens: Canon EF-M 22mm f/2 STM
+ GPS: 22°16'59" N 114°10'22" E
+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
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+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
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It is no secret that I love typography in paintings, and every now and then I would come across some really bizarre work.
Harland Miller is both a writer and artist. His debut novel titled “Slow Down Arthur Stick to Thirty” was published in 2000 to critical acclaim. But he is best known for his giant canvases of Penguin Book covers.
I can’t help but to find him similar to Ed Ruscha in America, who also paint large type on his work. This painting seen at Art Basel Hong Kong recently is not his best, I think — but on his personal web site at www.harlandmiller.com/ there are quite a bit of fantastic WTF irony which are witty and sweet — definitely worthy of a visit.
In his own words: “Painting is the worst medium to express narrative, but perhaps the best to hit a nerve.”
Harland Miller
I’ll Never Forget What I Can’t Remember
2013
Oil on canvas
252 x 156 cm
# Harland Miller
b. 1964 York, England
lives in London, England
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harland_Miller
# Ingleby Gallery
15 Calton Road
Edinburgh EH8 8DL
United Kingdom
# SML Data
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+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130523.EOSM.03961
+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“Painting by Harland Miller (b. 1964 UK): I’ll Never Forget What I Can’t Remember, 2013 (Oil on canvas)” / Ingleby Gallery / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.EOSM.03961
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2006 original: www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/169367424
2008 re-processed + cropped for use with Gewandhaus
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It has been said that contemporary art is an acquired taste, and it matters not whether you like it or hate it. Good art invites a dialog—hating it is still a successful piece as long as you care enough to form an opinion. Bad art, on the other hand, invites no dialog at all—indifference is not an opinion.
Titled “Garbage Buddha,” this mixed media installation by Tibetan artist Tsherin Sherpa appears to be a commentary on Buddhist religion. The artist spent years studying buddhist philosophy under the tutelage of various Buddhist Masters in Nepal. The intention of the artist though is unknown.
It is a dimension variable installation — true that. If I have this on view at my home no one will be able to tell a difference between my work space and the art work for sure.
Crazyisgood.
Tsherin Sherpa (b. 1968 Tibet)
Garbage Buddha
2013
Mixed media
Dimension variable
Main section 127 x 152.cm
50 x 50 in
# Tsherin Sherpa
Born in 1968, lives and works in California, USA
+ 1991-1996: Buddhist Philosophy under the tutelage of various Buddhist Masters, Nepal
+ 1988-1989: Computer Science and Mandarin, Taipei, Taiwan
+ 1983-1988: Traditional Tibetan Painting apprenticeship with Master Urgen Dorje Sherpa (father)
# Rossi & Rossi
16 Clifford Street
London W1S 3RG
United Kingdom
Yally Industrial Building, Unit 3C, 6 Yip Fat Street
Hong Kong, Wong Chuk Hang
China
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-05-23T17:51:30+0800
+ Dimensions: 3171 x 4756
+ Exposure: 1/30 sec at f/8.0
+ Focal Length: 17 mm
+ ISO: 800
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°16'59" N 114°10'22" E
+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.14143
+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
Mixed media installation by Tsherin Sherpa (b. 1968 Tibet): Garbage Buddha, 2013 / Rossi & Rossi / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14143
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The long escalator ride up from MTR (Hong Kong’s underground metro) station level to ground level.
I always wonder if the subway in Hong Kong is longer than most places in the world because the escalator ride is quite long. I have never timed nor measured it but it definitely feels at least three times longer than most subway station in New York.
So as usual, to kill time, I do photography. And these extreme perspective shots are really ideal for the full frame 6D + wide angle lens.
# SML Data
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+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°17'16" N 114°11'35" E (approximate, GPS data not available underground)
+ Location: 中國香港炮台山地鐵站 Fortress Hill MTR Station, Hong Kong, China
+ Workflow: Photomatix Pro 4.2.5b Tonemap, Lightroom 4,
+ Serial: SML.20130413.6D.00481.TM
+ Series: 人流 Human Logistics
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“炮台山地鐵站電梯 Fortress Hill MTR Station Escalator” / 香港人流 Hong Kong Human Logistics / SML.20130413.6D.00481.TM
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Daytime Biohack on the left: what remains in the beer-mug-as-coffee-mug, which is always filled with coffee and milk tea.
Nighttime Biohack on the right: 100mg Seroquel which puts me to sleep.
Together they work like clockwork and runs through my system daily and is what keeps me going everyday.
# SML Data
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+ Camera: Canon EOS M
+ Lens: Canon EF-M 22mm f/2 STM
+ GPS: 22°25'9" N 114°13'26" E
+ Location: SML Universe HKG
+ Serial: SML.20130225.EOSM.02426.P1.L1
+ Workflow: Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4
+ Series: Biohacks
“日與夜 Day and Night” / Biohacks / SML.20130225.EOSM.02426.P1.L1
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This green fence surrounding the soccer pitch has my name written all over it. I see it, because I am not normal. You don’t, because maybe you are human.
Also you from this you can see why I had to use a long lens. It is close to impossible to use a wide angle lens to photograph people playing sports inside because there are no elevated platforms surrounding these fields, and so the only way to photograph what is happening inside is through these frames with extremely tight openings.
# SML Translate:
+ 日: sun.
+ 月: moon.
+ 明: Putting the sun and the moon together is very bright. And that’s what this character means. It means bright, clear, and understanding. It is pronounced as “ming,” and is the second character of my first name—which is why I said that this green fence has my name written all over it.
# SML Data
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+ Dimensions: 5184 x 3456
+ Exposure: 1/320 sec at f/5.6
+ Focal Length: 180 mm
+ ISO: 100
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM + Canon EF 1.4x Extender III
+ GPS: 22°25'11" N 114°13'41" E
+ Location: 中國香港馬鞍山遊樂場人造草地足球場 中国香港马鞍山游乐场人造草地足球场 Artificial Turf Soccer Pitch, Ma On Shan Recreation Ground, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, China
+ Serial: SML.20130222.7D.24350.P1.L1
+ Workflow: Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4
+ Series: 形 Forms, 體育 Sports
“日月日月日月明” / 香港體育建築之形 Hong Kong Sports Architecture Forms / SML.20130222.7D.24350.P1.L1
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An unexpected sighting in Taipei is the placement of Buddhist temples in the city. Unlike other places where temples are usually somewhat spatially separated, here the temples appear to be surrounded by city life. It is is possible that there is limited space and thus buildings must be built adjacent to them. But it is still rather interesting to me.
In the photo, the orange building on the right is a Buddhist temple. A residential building to its right, with a banner on its facade for the city local legislative election. And a bus top filled with people waiting to be transported afar on a misty rainy day.
Photographed with the Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM. Processed in Lightroom.
山城佛寺 Buddhist temple at a mountainous city / 台灣 Taiwan / SML.20140210.6D.30679
/ #台灣 #臺灣 #Taiwan #台北 #Taipei #SMLTravel #旅遊 #旅游 #Travel #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
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“This collection is inspired by global riot initiated by teenagers, local political and social issues. Traces of it can be seen from the pattern on fabrics, details on accessories to the vibe of the final outfits as a whole. This collection is also one of the so many ways to celebrate the waking up of youngsters from ignorance, self-egos and work their ways out against the corrupted social value, ideology and bureaucracy, of which their actions are always regarded as a form of social disturbance. on top of that, it allows me to express my own personal perspective.”—Rhyox Wan, designer
"…and we live off of the unsettling soul”
# WAN Wai Kit, Rhyox
…and we live off of the unsettling soul
# Sponsors
+ Fang Brothers Knitting Ltd.
+ UPW
+ Winning Textile Co., Ltd.
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The Great Wall of China (長城) is a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China in part to protect the Chinese Empire or its prototypical states against intrusions by various nomadic groups or military incursions by various warlike peoples or forces. Several walls were being built as early as the 7th century BC; these, later joined together and made bigger and stronger, are now collectively referred to as the Great Wall.
Juyong Pass (居庸關 Jūyōng Guān) is one of the three greatest mountain passes of the Great Wall of China. The other two are Jiayuguan (嘉峪關) and Shanhaiguan (榆關). Juyongguan Pass has two ‘sub-passes,’ one at the valley‘s south and the other at the north. The southern one is called "Nan (pass)" and the northern is called “Badaling” (八達嶺).
This is the first time I have been to Juyong Guan. Personally I prefer the view at Badaling better, though Juyong Guan is considered the more important point of interest for tourism.
Photographed with the Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L USM.
# More Information
+ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juyong_Pass
+ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China
居庸關長城 Juyong Pass, Great Wall / 中國北京 Beijing, China / SML.20140501.6D.31562.P1.BW
The view from Ocean terminal looking towards Hong Kong Island.
www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8559021391/sizes/o/ (8261 x 2483 original)
From left to right:
+ The Star Ferry (Chinese: 天星小輪), or The "Star" Ferry Company, is a passenger ferry service operator and tourist attraction in Hong Kong. Its principal routes carry passengers across Victoria Harbour, between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. It was founded in 1888 as the Kowloon Ferry Company, adopting its present name in 1898. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Ferry
+ The International Finance Centre (IFC, Chinese: 國際金融中心) is an integrated commercial development on the waterfront of Hong Kong's Central District. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Finance_Centre
+ Ocean Terminal (Chinese: 海運大廈) is a cruise terminal and shopping centre located on Canton Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Terminal,_Hong_Kong
+ The International Commerce Centre (Chinese: 環球貿易廣場) (abbr. ICC Tower) is a 118-storey, 484 m (1,588 ft) skyscraper completed in 2010 in West Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is a part of the Union Square project built on top of Kowloon Station. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Commerce_Centre
Stitched together with 11 full res RAW of EOS M with the 17-40 f/4L
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“海運大廈 + 維多利亞港 Ocean Terminal + Victoria Harbour” / 香港全景攝影 Hong Kong Panoramic Photography / SML.20130315.EOSM.03388-SML.20130315.EOSM.03398-Pano-Cylindrical-178x71.2
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Two Solo Exhibitions
Exhibition dates: September 26 - November 8, 2009
Artists’ reception: Saturday, September 26, 5-8pm
Smack Mellon is pleased to present Ellen Driscoll’s installation FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2 and Fernando Souto’s photographic series The End of the Trail. The two concurrent solo exhibitions compress layers of time to explore industries and lifestyles that go beyond geographic borders. Composed of thousands of discarded plastic bottles collected by Ellen Driscoll, FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2 takes a critical look at the environmental and human damage inflicted by the oil and water industries in the last two centuries on regions as diverse as Nigeria and the United States. During extended trips to cattle ranches in the American West, Australia, and Uruguay, Fernando Souto photographed the fading culture of ranchers, creating black-and-white environmental portraits in the tradition of iconic photographers such as Walker Evans and Robert Frank. Both Driscoll and Souto are intimately tied to their craft—painstakingly cutting up salvaged bottles and printing large-scale silver gelatin photographs—asserting a tactile personal connection in their work.
Ellen Driscoll
FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2
“This installation is a continuation of a multi-year series which explores the dynamics of resource harvesting and consumption. This part of the series focuses on oil and water. Rising at 5:30 AM, I harvest #2 plastic bottles from the recycling bags put out for collection on the streets of Brooklyn. For one hour, one day at a time, I immerse myself in the tidal wave of plastic that engulfs us by collecting as many bottles as I can carry. The sculptural installation for Smack Mellon comprises 2600 bottles transformed into a 28 foot landscape. Constructed solely of harvested #2 plastic, the sculpture collapses three centuries into a ghostly translucent visual fugue in which a nineteenth century trestle bridge plays host to an eighteenth century water-powered mill which spills a twenty-first century flood from its structure. The flow contains North American, Middle Eastern, and African landmasses (sites of oil harvesting and their consumer destination) buoyed by a sea of plastic water molecules. The piece looks back to eighteenth century American industry powered by water, and forward to the oil refineries of the Niger Delta, site of prolonged guerilla warfare against oil corporations and the source of over fifty percent of crude oil for the United States—the oil that produces the plastic within which our privatized water is currently bought and sold.
The wall drawings in the exhibition are based on a close study of the inner workings of an oil refinery. By using huge shifts of scale between the macro and the micro, they depict a dystopic future based on rampant oil consumption. An oil rig shares the horizon with ocean fires and garbage scows, mega shopping malls are abandoned to spontaneous communities of slums, and a refugee camp is inundated by the waters of a melting glacier. The worlds in the drawings are drained of color, but filled with the flux and spillage of a potentially chaotic future.”
Ellen Driscoll is a sculptor whose work includes FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 1 at Frederieke Taylor Gallery, Revenant and Phantom Limb for Nippon Ginko, Hiroshima, Japan, The Loophole of Retreat at the Whitney Museum, Phillip Morris, As Above, So Below for Grand Central Terminal (a suite of 20 mosaic and glass images for the tunnels at 45th, 47th, and 48th Streets), Catching the Drift, a restroom for the Smith College Museum of Art, and Wingspun for the International Arrivals Terminal at Raleigh-Durham airport. Ms. Driscoll has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bunting Institute at Harvard University, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, the LEF Foundation, and Anonymous Was a Woman. Her work is included in major public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of Art. She is a Professor of Sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design.
Smack Mellon
92 Plymouth Street @ Washington
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Gallery hours are Wednesday-Sunday, 12-6pm.
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+ SML Flickr Collections: Events
+ SML Flickr Sets: Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009
See also Agata Olek talks about her 100% Acrylic Art Guards (Flickr 720p HD video)
Agata Olek (Flickr)
100% Acrylic Art Guards
"I think crochet, the way I create it, is a metaphor for the complexity and interconnectedness of our body and its systems and psychology. The connections are stronger as one fabric as opposed to separate strands, but, if you cut one, the whole thing will fall apart.
Relationships are complex and greatly vary situation to situation. They are developmental journeys of growth, and transformation. Time passes, great distances are surpassed and the fabric which individuals are composed of compiles and unravels simultaneously."
Agata Olek Biography. The SPLAT! of colors hits you in the face, often clashing so ostentatiously that it instantly tunes you into the presence of severely cheeky humor. A moment later the fatigue of labor creeps into your fingers as a coal miner's work ethic becomes apparent. Hundreds of miles of crocheted, weaved, and often recycled materials are the fabric from which the wild and occasionally wearable structures of her fantasylands are born.
Olek was born Agata Oleksiak in Poland and graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland with a degree in cultural studies. In New York, she rediscovered her ability to crochet and since then she has started her crocheted journey/madness.
Resume sniffers may be pleased to know Olek's work has been presented in galleries from Brooklyn to Istanbul to Venice and Brazil, featured in "The New York Times", "Fiberarts Magazine", "The Village Voice", and "Washington Post" and drags a tail of dance performance sets and costumes too numerous to mention.
Olek received the Ruth Mellon Award for Sculpture, was selected for 2005 residency program at Sculpture Space, 2009 residency in Instituto Sacatar in Brazil, and is a winner of apex art gallery commercial competition. Olek was an artist in an independent collective exhibition, "Waterways," during the 49th Venice Biennale. She was also a featured artist in "Two Continents Beyond," at the 9th International Istanbul Biennale.
Olek herself however can be found in her Greenpoint studio with a bottle of spiced Polish vodka and a hand rolled cigarette aggressively re-weaving the world as she sees.
13th annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® (Sept 25 to Sept 27, 2009)
www.dumboartfestival.org/press_release.html
The three-day multi-site neighborhood-wide event is a one-of-a-kind art happening: where serendipity meets the haphazard and where the unpredictable, spontaneous and downright weird thrive. The now teenage D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® presents touchable, accessible, and interactive art, on a scale that makes it the nation's largest urban forum for experimental art.
Art Under the Bridge is an opportunity for young artists to use any medium imaginable to create temporary projects on-the-spot everywhere and anywhere, completely transforming the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, New York, into a vibrant platform for self-expression. In addition to the 80+ projects throughout the historical post-industrial waterfront span, visitors can tour local artists' studios or check out the indoor video_dumbo, a non-stop program of cutting-edge video art from New York City and around the world.
The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) has been the exclusive producer of the D.U.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge Festival® since 1997. DAC is a big impact, small non-profit, that in addition to its year-round gallery exhibitions, is committed to preserving Dumbo as a site in New York City where emerging visual artists can experiment in the public domain, while having unprecedented freedom and access to normally off-limit locations.
Related SML
+ SML Flickr Collections: Events
+ SML Flickr Sets: Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009
What’s so awesome about a black and white image of a US fighter jet? Nothing—except when you realised that it was a charcoal drawing and not a photo. Seriously.
Robert Longo (born 1953-01-07 in Brooklyn, NY) is an American painter and sculptor. Even when I was standing right next to the drawing I could not tell that it was a drawing.
Those of you who have worked with charcoal knows that being able to achieve hyperrealist drawings such as this is no small feast.
Crazyisgood!
Robert Longo
Untitled (F-15 Eagle), 2012
Charcoal on mounted paper
165.1 x 274.3 cm
65 x 108 in
RLO 1317
# Robert Longo
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Longo
# Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
7, rue Debelleyme
75003 Paris
France
69 avenue du Général Leclerc
93500 Paris-Pantin
France
Mirabellplatz 2
5020 Salzburg
Austria
# SML Data
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+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°16'59" N 114°10'22" E
+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.14234
+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
Hyperrealist drawing by Robert Longo: Untitled (F-15 Eagle), 2012 (Charcoal on mounted paper) / Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14234
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I went to Tai O, a small fishing village in Hong Kong, where people live in houses literally built on top of water.
It’s a break that I really needed. Because of what I do now, it’s fairly hard for me to take long vacations anymore, so having this 2-day mini trip within Hong Kong was the best thing that had happened to me for a long time.
I will write about why I couldn’t plan longer trips later — but this thing that I do full time now, while in some ways give me complete freedom in time, it’s a bit like being on call 24/7/365. Unless I could get Supercell to commit to not making any changes to the game for a week, I couldn’t very easily go travel — because changes to the game could literally break the site in such way that could potentially mean turning all the efforts I have in the past 7 years into dust.
It’s something that I will continue investigate if I could find a way to solve. I would really like a real vacation
A three-legged pot hung from the ceiling is heated by the piles of wood in the large fire pit.
Photographed with the Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM in Sanya, Hainan, China.
煮食 Cooking / 黎苗少數民族文化 Culture of the Li and Miao minorities / 中國海南三亞 Sanya, Hainan, China / SML.20140506.6D.32025.P1.BW
The Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節) is a significant cultural celebration in Chinese culture. It occurs on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar, typically falling in September or October.
The festival coincides with the autumn harvest season, making the full moon a symbol of abundance and gratitude for nature’s blessings.
In the west, this moon is also known as the Super Harvest Moon, when the moon is at its closest point to Earth, making it appear larger and brighter than usual — about 14% larger and 30% brighter than a typical full moon.
Canon EOS R8
Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
Canon EF-EOS R Mount Adapter
Mid-Autumn Festival, Hong Kong
2024-09-18 (midnight on Sept 17)
Mid-Autumn Moon 中秋月 Super Harvest Moon / SML.20240918.R8.09262.E1.SQ
Thank You for Your Visit, Have a Nice Day is a performance piece by Agata Olek (Facebook / Flickr / Portfolio) created for Art in Odd Places:SIGN, an annual festival exploring the odd, ordinary and ingenious in the spectacle of daily life.
Curated by Erin Donnelly and Radhika Subramaniam
Director of AIOP: Ed Woodham
Artist Statement
"Inspired by a uniformed attendant holding the sign Hold the Handrail in a Taipei metro station, I've created this moving installation/performance piece. In wearable sculptures of multicolored crocheted camouflage, my performers appear in various sites on 14th Street, displaying photographs of signs I've collected from different countries that are in emphatic, ironic or amused dialogue with their location."
See also video by Technology Artist filmed on the same day at www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfjXrKQVwPU
More information about the festival
Press
+ Timeout New York: Fall Preview 2009
+ Timeout New York: Own this City
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+ SML Fine Art (Flickr Group) (FriendFeed / Twitter)
Edward Kienholz (October 23, 1927 – June 10, 1994) was an American installation artist whose work was highly critical of aspects of modern life. He often collaborated with his wife, Nancy Reddin Kienholz, from 1972 until his death. Collectively, they are referred to as "Kienholz".
Edward Kienholz was born in Fairfield, Washington in 1927. He grew up on a farm in the eastern part of the state, learning carpentry and drafting and mechanical skills in his youth. He studied at Eastern Washington College of Education and, briefly, at Whitworth College in Spokane, but did not receive any formal artistic training. After a series of odd jobs, such as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital, the manager of a dance band, a used car salesman, a caterer, a decorator and a vacuum cleaner salesman, Kienholz settled in Los Angeles, where he became involved with the arts.
Together with other avant-garde artists in the area, such as the youthful Michael Bowen, he opened art galleries. In 1957 Kienholz started the Ferus Gallery with Walter Hopps. In 1961 he completed his first installation, "Roxys", which caused a stir at the documenta 4 exhibition in 1968.
Despite his lack of formal artistic training, Kienholz began to employ his mechanical and carpentry skills in making collage paintings and reliefs assembled from materials salvaged from the alleys and sidewalks of the city. In 1960 he withdrew from the Ferus Gallery to concentrate on his art, creating free-standing, large-scale environmental tableaux. Kienholz's assemblages of found objects—the detritus of modern existence, often including figures cast from life—are at times vulgar, brutal, and gruesome, confronting the viewer with questions about human existence and the inhumanity of twentieth-century society. Because of their satirical and antiestablishment tones, his works have often been linked to the funk art movement based in San Francisco in the 1960s.
A 1966 show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art drew considerable controversy about his assemblage, Back Seat Dodge ‘38 (1964), said by some in the press to be pornographic or at least vulgar.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Kienholz
+++
The Armory Show is the United States’ leading art fair devoted to the most important artworks of the 20th and 21st centuries. In its twelve years, the fair has become an international institution. Every March, artists, galleries, collectors, critics and curators from all over the world make New York their destination during Armory Arts Week.
The Armory Show 2010 also features The Armory Show – Modern, specializing in modern and secondary market material on Pier 92. Pier 94 continues to be a venue to premiere new works by living artists. With one ticket, visitors to The Armory Show on March 4–7, 2010 have access to the latest developments in the art world, and to the masterpieces which heralded them.
Piers 92 and 94 on 55th Street and 12th Avenue, NYC
March 4-7, 2010
Closed to the 碧霞祠 Azure Clouds Temple on the other side of the 玉皇頂 Jade Emperor Peak is a “Guest House” (aka hotel) which is enclosed in radio satellites. The very traditional architecture of the tower suggests that it was probably originally built as a watch tower in ancient times. But in modern days it is now filled with satellite dishes, likely for intelligence use as well as radio broadcast use.
I did not have the time to check out the facilities, but I think that if and when I decide to revisit Mount Tai for some more photography, this would be my only lodging option.
“电台宾馆” (電台賓館 Radio Station Guest House) / 山東省泰山 Mount Tai, Shandong Province 山东省泰山 / 中國旅遊 中国旅游 China Tourism / SML.20121011.7D.09596.ChinaTourism.CN.Qingdao.Shandong.MountTai
Mixed media painting with typography influences by Jenny Eisenpresser. Seen at the Dumbo Art Festival 2009 in New York City.
Jenny Eisenpresser was born in New York city and studied art earning a BFA and BA at Cornell University. She worked several years as a commercial artist: designing book covers; doing exhibition signage and freelance illustration. Currently she is pursuing her art and experimenting daily in her studio in Dumbo, Brooklyn, where she'll be unless she accidentally blows it up.
Her portfolio is available at jennyeisenpresser.com
13th annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® (Sept 25 to Sept 27, 2009)
www.dumboartfestival.org/press_release.html
The three-day multi-site neighborhood-wide event is a one-of-a-kind art happening: where serendipity meets the haphazard and where the unpredictable, spontaneous and downright weird thrive. The now teenage D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® presents touchable, accessible, and interactive art, on a scale that makes it the nation's largest urban forum for experimental art.
Art Under the Bridge is an opportunity for young artists to use any medium imaginable to create temporary projects on-the-spot everywhere and anywhere, completely transforming the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, New York, into a vibrant platform for self-expression. In addition to the 80+ projects throughout the historical post-industrial waterfront span, visitors can tour local artists' studios or check out the indoor video_dumbo, a non-stop program of cutting-edge video art from New York City and around the world.
The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) has been the exclusive producer of the D.U.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge Festival® since 1997. DAC is a big impact, small non-profit, that in addition to its year-round gallery exhibitions, is committed to preserving Dumbo as a site in New York City where emerging visual artists can experiment in the public domain, while having unprecedented freedom and access to normally off-limit locations.
Related SML
+ SML Flickr Collections: Events
+ SML Flickr Sets: Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009
Contrast makes for interesting compositions.
In colors: orange vs blue. In materials: reflective vs matte surfaces. In age: old vs new. In size: large vs small. In forms: curves vs lines. In proportion: majority vs minority. In brightness: dark vs light.
When all the elements are there they sing to my eyes. Everyday found art in the urban landscape is a living poetry waiting for the eyes to explore.
The thing which applies to photography also applies to design. The visual art language is the same for food—food tastes best when it hits all the taste buds: sweet, sour, salty, heat. Visual pleasures work best when it hits all the visual notes: hues, colors, brightness, proportion, size.
# SML Data
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+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM + EF 1.4x Extender III
+ GPS: 22°16'43" N 114°10'24" E
+ Location: 中國香港灣仔謝斐道香海大廈附近 中国香港湾仔谢斐道香海大厦附近 Near the Heung Hoi Mansion at Jaffe Road in Wan Chai, Hong Kong SAR, China
+ Serial: SML.20130211.7D.22547.P1
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+ Series: 形 Forms
“對比 Contrast” / 城市建築之形 Urban Architecture Forms / SML.20130211.7D.22547.P1
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In March 2014, I went to the Sydney to attend a wedding. After four months, I finally have the time to process those photographs. These are what I saw…
Pictured is the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge with the Australian flag high on top. The bridge is a steel through arch bridge across Sydney Harbour that carries rail, vehicular, bicycle and pedestrian traffic between the Sydney central business district (CBD) and the North Shore.
Photographed with the 6D + 100-400.
# More Information
+ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Harbour_Bridge
Flags of Australia + Sydney Harbour Bridge / Sydney, Australia / SML.20140315.6D.30923.P1