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If you look just above the water on the lower left, you can discern the Klondike Highway that starts in Skagway, Alaska and eventually ends in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory.
This shot was taken in Fraser, BC, which is basically just a train station. If you take the train excursion from the cruise terminal in Skagway, you will probably end up here.
Converted to a painting with Topaz Simplify.
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Edward Penfield (1866-1925) was an influential American poster artist, considered as the father of the American poster movement. He was employed as an art editor for Harper’s Weekly, Monthly, and Harper’s Bazaar, where he made posters advertising each issue of the magazine for over seven years. His art was avant-garde with less concern for the dramatic curving lines of Art Nouveau, inspired by Japanese ukiyo-e block prints, figure drawings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, color lithographies by Jules Chéret, and other contemporary artists. He created simplified scenes of daily life in saturated colors, including horses, cats, sports, and women’s fashion. We have digitally enhanced some of his artworks. They are free to download under the CC0 license.
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One Hamilton North End industrial sector business produces large fibreglass formed sections in a range of very bright colours. I believe these are parts of pool slides or possibly large water park slides or tunnels. A study of shapes and colours in the industrial world. Third image in a series. - JW
Date Taken: 2024-04-22
Date PP: 2024-04-24
(c) Copyright 2024 JW Vraets
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Tech Details:
Taken using a hand-held Nikon D800 fitted with an Tamron 100-400mm 1:4.5-6.3 DI VC USD lense set to 320mm, ISO280 (Auto ISO), Daylight WB, Matrix metering, Shutter Priority Mode, f/6.3 (wide open), 1/800 sec. PP in free Open Source GIMP from Nikon RAW/NEF file: scale image to 9000 px wide, crop off the top of the image to simplify the composition, apply Tone Mapping as well as Dynamic Range Compression at default levels to bring out textures and tame the extreme brightness range, use the Shadows/Highlights tool to tame the highlights further, slightly boost Contrast as well as Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, slightly boost Vibrance, apply a little noise reduction, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: boost contrast a little, use the Hue-Saturation-Brightness tool to increase overall saturation and then also further increase the yellow a bit more, sharpen, save, scale image to 7500 px wide, sharpen, save, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 4000 px wide for posting online, sharpen, save.
For the letter N in our daily challenge I have selected necklace, here processed in Topaz Simplify for a painterly effect.
This card was inspired by the card on page 39 of the new Hero Arts catalog. I liked the colors, the acylic block background technique, and the leaf cluster stamp, but didn't do much of the collage work from the inspiration piece. So very similar but a bit more simplified.
TFL!
The Beijing National Aquatics Center (simplified Chinese: 北京国家游泳中心; traditional Chinese: 北京國家游泳中心), also officially known as the National Aquatics Center, and colloquially known as the Water Cube (Chinese: 水立方), is an aquatics center that was built alongside Beijing National Stadium in the Olympic Green for the swimming competitions of the 2008 Summer Olympics. Despite its nickname, the building is not an actual cube, but a cuboid (a rectangular box). Ground was broken on December 24, 2003, and the Center was completed and handed over for use on January 28, 2008. Swimmers at the Water Cube broke 25 world records during the 2008 Olympics.
After the 2008 Olympics, the building underwent a 200 million Yuan revamp to turn half of its interior into a water park. The building officially reopened on August 8, 2010. It will host the curling events at the 2022 Winter Olympics
In July 2003, the Water Cube design was chosen from 10 proposals in an international architectural competition for the aquatic center project. The Water Cube was specially designed and built by a consortium made up of PTW Architects (an Australian architecture firm), Arup international engineering group, CSCEC (China State Construction Engineering Corporation), and CCDI (China Construction Design International) of Shanghai. The Water Cube's design was initiated by a team effort: the Chinese partners felt a square was more symbolic to Chinese culture and its relationship to the Bird's Nest stadium, while the Sydney-based partners came up with the idea of covering the 'cube' with bubbles, symbolizing water. Contextually the cube symbolizes earth whilst the circle (represented by the stadium) represents heaven. Hence symbolically the water cube references Chinese symbolic architecture.
Comprising a steel space frame, it is the largest ETFE clad structure in the world with over 100,000 m² of ETFE pillows that are only 0.2 mm (1/125 of an inch) in total thickness. The ETFE cladding, supplied and installed by the firm Vector Foiltec, allows more light and heat penetration than traditional glass, resulting in a 30% decrease in energy costs.
The outer wall is based on the Weaire–Phelan structure, a structure devised from the natural pattern of bubbles in soap lather. In the true Weaire-Phelan structure the edge of each cell is curved in order to maintain 109.5 degree angles at each vertex (satisfying Plateau's rules), but of course as a structural support system each beam was required to be straight so as to better resist axial compression. The complex Weaire–Phelan pattern was developed by slicing through bubbles in soap foam, resulting in more irregular, organic patterns than foam bubble structures proposed earlier by the scientist Kelvin. Using the Weaire–Phelan geometry, the Water Cube's exterior cladding is made of 4,000 ETFE bubbles, some as large as 9.14 meters (30.0 ft) across, with seven different sizes for the roof and 15 for the walls.
The structure had a capacity of 17,000 during the games that is being reduced to 7,000. It also has a total land surface of 65,000 square meters and will cover a total of 32,000 square meters (7.9 acres). Although called the Water Cube, the aquatic center is really a rectangular box (cuboid) 178 meters (584 ft) square and 31 meters (102 ft) high. The building's popularity has spawned many copycat structures throughout China. For example, there is one-to-one copy of the facade near the ferry terminal in Macau – the Casino Oceanus by Paul Steelman.
The Aquatics Center hosted the swimming, diving and synchronized swimming events during the Olympics. Water polo was originally planned to be hosted in the venue but was moved to the Ying Tung Natatorium.
Many people believed the Water Cube to be the fastest Olympic pool in the world. It is 1.314 meters deeper than most Olympic pools. The London 2012 Aquatics Center is the same depth, which leads many to believe the London pool is as fast as, if not faster than, the Beijing pool. Up to a certain limit, beyond which swimmers will lose their sense of vision, deeper pools allow the waves to dissipate to the bottom, leading to less water disturbance to the swimmers. The pool also has perforated gutters on both sides to absorb the waves.
The Aquatics Center saw 25 world records broken in the Beijing Olympics; however, all the records broken were accomplished by athletes using the super-slick swimwear which have become banned at the beginning of the 2010 season by the International Swimming Federation (FINA)
After the Olympics, the Water Cube was opened to the public on select days of the week beginning in June 2009, and was also used as the site for a production of Swan Lake amongst other shows. On October 19, 2009, the Water Cube was closed to the public to begin a massive renovation of a portion of the complex into a water park. The building reopened on August 8, 2010, marking the two-year anniversary of the beginning of the 2008 Summer Olympics. The redesigned facility contains numerous water rides and slides, a wave pool, and spa areas. The renovations were performed in order to bring renewed interest to the Olympic Green area as part of the games' legacy.
from Wikipedia
Back to my lighthouse passion here! This is my favorite Washington Lighthouse and is located in West Seattle at Alki Point. This lighthouse marks the southern end of Elliot Bay which leads into the port of Seattle. The northern end of Elliot Bay is marked by the West Point Lighthouse. Off in the distance are some thunderheads forming over the Olympic Mountains.
I have been playing around with the new software I purchased for my desktop computer, so here is a single RAW file I tonemapped in Photomatix, cropped in Photoshop CS5, and then ran through the Topaz Simplify plug in. I like the painted effect that Topaz Simplify can create.
What do you think? Thank you for the views, comments and faves. Have a great week.
A bitty watercolor of my little studio in the eves (a very sparse & cleaned up sketch!). I was inspired to use the bits of color that lit up my heart today.
"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness."
-Henry David Thoreau
Snow seems to minimize and simplify what you see with its' blanket of white tones. I find the sparse sketchy nature of this image soothing with it's simplicity and soft tones. Hopefully it will soothe other people too :)
Texture:
The ability to simplify means
to eliminate the unnecessary
so that the necessary may speak.
{ Hans Hofmann, Introduction to the Bootstrap, 1993 }
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The Bund (simplified Chinese: 外滩; traditional Chinese: 外灘; pinyin: Wàitān) is an area of Huangpu District in central Shanghai, People's Republic of China. The area centres on a section of Zhongshan Road (East-1 Zhongshan Road) within the former Shanghai International Settlement, which runs along the western bank of the Huangpu River, facing Pudong, in the eastern part of Huangpu District. The Bund usually refers to the buildings and wharves on this section of the road, as well as some adjacent areas. The Bund is one of the most famous tourist destinations in Shanghai. Building heights are restricted in this area.
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Work simplification for creating collages / index photos!
Arbeitserleichterung zum Erstellen von Collagen / Indexbildern !
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Newcastle East Junction, 23 December 2015. Three sets of double slips are all that's required now at the site of the former diamond crossings, reputed at one time to have been the worlds largest.
156443, forming 2N17 - Northern's 1022 to Carlisle - slips quietly from the single bay platform (that has replaced the eight suburban platforms) across the three ECML tracks and onto the High Level Bridge.
Dogwood 52 Week Photography Challenge. The Week 26 Challenge is Landscape: Simplify. Simply the scene to make your primary subject stand out.
For the half way point of the challenge I headed out to the Brisbane Ranges to an area I like to shoot on a season basis. It's a great spot but it is subject to changing weather conditions. On this particular day I left home in relatively clear skies...but not for long.
I have shot this particular scene a number of times but the conditions on this day were the worst I have experienced in this area. It was freezing cold with blasting winds and rain squalls making it near impossible to get a solid image. Even with a weighted tripod there was considerable camera shake and this was the best of a poor lot of images.
The Week 27 Challenge is as follows: Artistic - Blue. You were inspired by the fiery red earlier, now be inspired by calming blue.
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.. remembering kazimir malevich, on the ghats of holy river narmada.
see my fav GEOMETRY related images here
The image presents a stylized fusion of two iconic symbols: the cross and the North Star. The cross, a central emblem of Christian faith, represents the crucifixion of Jesus, signifying sacrifice and redemption. It's depicted here with clean, sharp lines that extend outwards, transitioning into points that resemble the shining light of a star.
In the center, where the two lines of the cross meet, there's a bright burst of light, suggesting the luminous quality of the North Star, known for its guidance to travelers and, in Christian tradition, for leading the three wise men to the birthplace of Jesus. The design simplifies these complex symbols into a minimalist form that conveys a message of hope, guidance, and the convergence of celestial and spiritual journeying.
This visual representation is a powerful metaphor for finding direction and inspiration through faith, combining the earthly with the heavenly, the historical with the symbolic. It encapsulates the journey of the wise men as an eternal quest for the light of truth, mirrored in the human search for meaning and purpose.
Wisconsin river near governor dodge state park.
south on hwy 23 where hwy 23 meets us 14
The Wisconsin River is a tributary of the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. At approximately 430 miles (692 km) long, it is the state's longest river. The river's name, first recorded in 1673 by Jacques Marquette as "Meskousing," is rooted in the Algonquian languages used by the area's American Indian tribes, but its original meaning is obscure. French explorers who followed in the wake of Marquette later modified the name to "Ouisconsin," and so it appears on Guillaume de L'Isle's map (Paris, 1718) This was simplified to "Wisconsin" in the early 19th century before being applied to Wisconsin Territory and finally the state of Wisconsin.
HDR from 21 shots...the reflection is clear because there was less wind and the river was shallow..
Playing around with Topaz simplify on this older shot of a three masted schooner sailing on Lake Erie.
Model : Angela
Taken by : Kweong
Location : Taiping Lake Garden
Special thanks to AlanOng help us to make the leafs effect :D
I think have to finish this Series before I go on ;p