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We took a boat ride excursion with 'splash', this was a large speedboat and the experience was hair raising to say the least! It lasts 90 minutes and tours around the marina, creek and palm area with guide, lots of unique photo opportunities!!
finally my work published on 1x.com :)
I have submit photo 5 times.
※2016年追加
リファラ調べたところ
1x関連のキーワードで来てる方もいらっしゃると思いますが
このメモ書いたのは2012年〜2013年3月までと古く
サイトの状況はかなり変わっています。
☆1x.com 奮闘記メモ
この写真とは全く関係無いのですが先日1x.comに審査通りました。
今まで4枚投稿して落とされてたのですが5枚目でやっと。。
1x.comとは誰でも投稿できる写真SNSですが
投稿した後審査があってそれを通過しないと公開してもらえません。
周りの選ばれてる作品見るとかなりレベルが高く
自分のなんて選ばれないんだろうなーと思いしばらく放置していたのですが
最近北海道の方がMACのデフォルトで入ってる壁紙に選ばれたのを見て
感化されたりtk21hxさんにも背中押してもらって再トライしてみました。
まだ1枚しか選ばれていないのでもうちょいがんばってみます。
☆2012/ 7 / 21追記----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2枚目通りました。
◯View数が異常
公開されると初日だけで8000超え、
しかも1xのカウント方法はFlickrと違い
ページビューじゃなくてユニークビューなんでさらに驚きました。
Flickrでエクスプローラーのカレンダーに表示されると
その日のアメリカのYahooのトップページにも表示されるのですが
それでも2000位しかなくて8000て数はやっぱすごいなーと。
Flickrにアップした写真のページビューでも1万もいけばかなり見られてる思いますが
1xはそれレベルのがゴロゴロあります、Maxで100万超えてるのも見ました。
毎日毎日数え切れない程の写真がインターネット上にアップされてますが、
ほとんど見られず消えていく写真が多い中これだけ見てもらえれば
やる価値があるかもしれません。
しかも写真・芸術に対しての意識が高い人達に発信できます。
◯どんな作品があるのか
審査制なので各カテゴリーにクオリティ高い作品が多々あります。
僕が今まで興味あったジャンル以外の作品も1xでは見てて楽しいと感じていますし
とても刺激をもらえます。
ただDocumentaryやNatureはナショジオのがレベル高い？気がします。
今回カテゴリーは「Creative edit」に投稿してみました、
「Architecture」か迷ったのですが非現実世界なのでこれで。
fineart-portuga , 500px , fotoblurなども
ざっと見ましたが1xが一番な気がします。
上で言う「クオリティ」というのは
構図、露出、カメラの設定周辺はほぼ完璧で当たり前で
それ+作品のアイデア、レタッチの美しさ、タイミングの良さ、誰も考えない視点など
写真を超越した「何か」。
とは言え人間が審査するので好みもありそうですし一概には言えなさそうです。
◯通過するにはどうすれば
まだ僕は2枚しか通ってないのでハッキリ言えませんが
自分が落ちた写真と掲載されてる写真を見て。
↓最初の1枚が通過するまでに落ちたやつ
☓ www.flickr.com/photos/spiraldelight/4998448902
☓ www.flickr.com/photos/spiraldelight/4745757553
☓ www.flickr.com/photos/spiraldelight/5117242191
☓ www.flickr.com/photos/spiraldelight/6236734015
他の人の作品もちゃんと見きれてないのですが
観光・記録・記念写真みたいなのはまず無理っぽいです。
ボケが美しくジャスピンでただ上手に撮れてるだけの写真も厳しそう。
かわいく綺麗に撮れてる猫や犬他動物、
あとお散歩ほっこりカメラ系(?)や
シズル感たっぷりのおいしそうな食べ物の写真も見てないかも。
外国人がよく好むコッテコテのHDRも少なめかも。
推測ですが↓このブルジュ・ハリファ単体の写真を投稿してたらまた落ちてた気がします。
www.flickr.com/photos/spiraldelight/5579511668/
審査プロセスはまずこのページの下の方にいるcuratorsに選ばれて審査。
この時点でOKだとすぐ公開、NGだと即落とされるっぽいです。
彼らにも判断できない作品は1xに参加してるメンバーにvoteさせて秤に掛けられます。
ここで1~6段階、votingさせてポイント高い作品が公開される仕組みのようです。
ただこのvotingページに出てる作品もほとんどOKの作品のようでクオリティ高いです。
☆8/1追記----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3枚目通過
4枚目通過
ジャンクションが好き過ぎていじり倒してました。
色々組み合わせて試行錯誤しながら
とりあえずこれで落ち着きました。
もちろんそんな順調でもなく落とされもしています。
↓僕のフォトストリームでも人気があってExpolreになったりタンブラーでも1万リブログ超え、
他SNSでも色々リンクしてもらってるのですが落とされてます。
www.flickr.com/photos/spiraldelight/6102694887/in/set-721...
↓my most interestingの写真ですが落選。
www.flickr.com/photos/spiraldelight/4990023987/
1xではFlickrでの評価、Exploreも意味無いので考えない方が良さそうです。
Flickrから選んでもレタッチ、トリミングも全部見直して投稿しようと思います。
☆8/6追記----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
5枚目通過
6枚目通過
カラー写真 & SD1 Merrillで初パブリッシュ
☆9/26追記----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
7枚目通過
Flickrではカラーをアップしています、
1xでは白黒バージョンが審査通りました。
+調整レイヤーを何枚かかまして部分的にコントラスト・明度を調整しています。
「どこまで同じ作品か？」て悩む事があります。
写真のタイトル・コントラスト・明度・彩度他が微妙に違うとか
トリミングしてる部分が違うとか
グレーな部分で人によって判断が違いますが
カラーと白黒は別だと思っています。
☆11/3追記----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
10月始めに1xスタッフから載せるよーとメールで連絡がありました。
自分のが載る載らないにせよこの本は買うつもりだったので既に注文していました。
で一昨日スウェーデンから到着。
☆11/07追記---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
8枚目通過
本命はこっちだったのですが違うバージョンが通過。
☆11/19追記---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
9枚目
神奈川県東戸塚にある、マンション(億ション)の吹抜け。
【2013】
☆02/19追記---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
10枚目
大阪出張で空いた時間に撮った写真を壊して組み立てて遊んでみました。
審査落とされたので何回かレタッチし直してやっと通りました。
☆02/23追記---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
11枚目
群馬県太田市にある金山城跡ガイダンス、美術館みたいなところです。
これは建築家の隈研吾さんの作品の一部を切り取ったもの。
なんと言っても地元で撮った写真が選ばれたのがすごい嬉しい。
1x史上でも群馬の写真なんて初めてだと思う。
ここはSD1 Merrillで撮って大正解だと思いました、Foveonのこの描写すごい好きです。
しかし全く夜景写真での審査が通りません。。
☆03/02追記---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
12枚目
新宿イーストサイドスクエア
1xで数日前からカウントダウンが始まってて何かと思いましたが
今日リニューアルしてました。
規約もサイトのインターフェースも一新、全く慣れません。
voteコンテンツが無くなってたり
1x上で誰でもアップでき審査無しに公開できるようになったようで
販売も簡単にできるようになってる？みたいです。
でアップされた写真からキュレーターの審査に通ったのが
に公開されるようです。
まだまだ詳細はわかってないので間違ってるかもしれませんが。
せっかく1x慣れてきたのに一気に変わって戸惑ってます。。
03/05追記
見切り発車でローンチしたようで
今後コンテンツも復活したり充実してくとアナウンスされています。
恐らく期日3/1マストで公開しなければいけない状況で無理矢理公開したっぽい。
けっこうバグもあったりしたのですが少しずつ改善されてます。
1xのプログラマーは胃を痛めてると思うので
あたたかく見守りたいと思います
☆03/14追記---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
13枚目
高崎 ウエストサイドパーク 1000。
これも隈研吾さんの建築。
リニューアル後初めてのパブリッシュ。
確か3/12に投稿して2日後に公開、かなり早かったので驚きました。
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30 St Mary Axe is a commercial skyscraper in London's primary financial district, the City of London. It was completed in December 2003 and opened in April 2004. With 41 floors, it is 180 metres tall and stands on the sites of the former Baltic Exchange and Chamber of Shipping, which were extensively damaged in 1992 in the Baltic Exchange bombing by a device placed by the Provisional IRA in St Mary Axe, a narrow street leading north from Leadenhall Street.
After plans to build the 92-storey Millennium Tower were dropped, 30 St Mary Axe was designed by Norman Foster and the Arup Group. It was erected by Skanska; construction started in 2001.
The building has become a recognisable landmark of London, and it is one of the city's most widely recognised examples of contemporary architecture. It won the 2003 Emporis Skyscraper Award.
The building stands on the site of the former Baltic Exchange (24–28 St Mary Axe), which was the headquarters of a global marketplace for shipping freight contracts and soft commodities, and the Chamber of Shipping (30–32 St Mary Axe). The tower's topmost panoramic dome, known as the "lens", recalls the iconic glass dome that covered part of the ground floor of the Baltic Exchange and much of which is now displayed at the National Maritime Museum. The Gherkin nickname was applied to the current building at least as early 1999, referring to the plan's highly unorthodox layout and appearance.
On 10 April 1992, the Provisional IRA detonated a bomb close to the Baltic Exchange, causing extensive damage to the historic building and neighbouring structures. The United Kingdom government's statutory adviser on the historic environment, English Heritage, and the City of London's governing body, the City of London Corporation, were keen that any redevelopment must restore the Baltic Exchange's old façade onto St Mary Axe. The Exchange Hall was a celebrated fixture of the shipping market.
English Heritage then discovered that the damage was far more severe than initially thought, and they stopped insisting on full restoration, albeit over the objections of architectural conservationists. The Baltic Exchange and the Chamber of Shipping sold the land to Trafalgar House in 1995. Most of the remaining structures on the Baltic Exchange site were then carefully dismantled, and the interior of Exchange Hall and the façade were preserved, hoping for a reconstruction of the building in the future. The salvaged material was eventually sold for £800,000 and moved to Tallinn, Estonia, where it awaits reconstruction as the centrepiece of the city's commercial sector.
In 1996, Trafalgar House submitted plans for the London Millennium Tower, a 386-metre building with more than 140,000 m2 of office space, apartments, shops, restaurants and gardens. This plan was dropped after objections that it was totally out-of-scale in the City of London, and anticipated disruption to flight paths for both London City and London Heathrow airports; the revised plan for a lower tower was accepted.
John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, granted planning permission on 23 August 2000 to construct a building on the site, which would be much larger than the old Exchange. The site needed development, was not on any of the "sight lines" (planning guidance requires that new buildings do not obstruct or detract from the view of St Paul's Cathedral dome when viewed from a number of locations around London), and had housed the Baltic Exchange.
The plan for the site was to reconstruct the Baltic Exchange. GMW Architects proposed a new rectangular building surrounding a restored exchange: it would have the type of large floor plan that banks liked. Eventually, the planners realised that the exchange was not recoverable, forcing them to relax their building constraints; they hinted that an "architecturally significant" building might obtain a favourable reception from City authorities. This gave the architect a free hand in the design. The building was designed according to the client's needs, rather than for the needs of a large, capital-efficient, money-making building.
The new building's low-level plan satisfied the planning authority's desire to maintain London's traditional streetscape, with its narrow streets. The massing of the tower was not too imposing. Like Barclays' former city headquarters in Lombard Street, the idea was that the passer-by in neighbouring streets would be nearly oblivious to the tower's existence until directly underneath it.
The building was constructed by Skanska, completed in December 2003 and opened on 28 April 2004. The primary occupant of the building is Swiss Re, a global reinsurance company, which had the building commissioned as the head office for its UK operation. The tower is thus sometimes known as the Swiss Re Building, although this name has never been official and has more recently fallen out of favour, since the company's main headquarters is in Zurich and the Gherkin name has become more popular.
The building uses energy-saving methods which allow it to use only half the power that a similar tower would typically consume. Gaps in each floor create six shafts that serve as a natural ventilation system for the entire building, even though required firebreaks on every sixth floor interrupt the "chimney". The shafts create a giant double glazing effect; air is sandwiched between two layers of glazing and insulates the office space inside.
Architects promote double glazing in residential houses, which avoids the inefficient convection of heat across the relatively narrow gap between the panes, but the tower exploits this effect. The shafts pull warm air out of the building during the summer and warm the building in the winter using passive solar heating. The shafts also allow sunlight to pass through the building, making the work environment more pleasing, and keeping the lighting costs down.
The primary methods for controlling wind-excited sways are to increase the stiffness, or increase damping with tuned/active mass dampers. To a design by Arup, its fully triangulated perimeter structure makes the building rigid enough without any extra reinforcements. Despite its overall curved glass shape, there is only one piece of curved glass on the building, the lens-shaped cap at the apex.
On the building's top level (the 40th floor), there is a bar for tenants and their guests, with a panoramic view of London. A restaurant operates on the 39th floor, and private dining rooms on the 38th. Most buildings have extensive lift equipment on the roof of the building, but this was not possible for the Gherkin, since a bar had been planned for the 40th floor. The architects dealt with this by having the main lift only reach the 34th floor, with a separate push-from-below lift to the 39th floor. There is a marble stairwell and a disabled persons' lift, which leads the visitor up to the bar in the dome.
The building is visible over long distances: From the north, for instance, it can be seen from the M11 motorway, some 32 kilometres away, while to the west it can be seen from the statue of George III in Windsor
In April 2005, a glass panel two thirds up the tower fell to the plaza beneath. The plaza was sealed off, but the building remained open. A temporary covered walkway, extending across the plaza to the building's reception, was erected to protect visitors. Engineers examined the other 744 glass panels on the building. The cost of repair was covered by main contractor Skanska and curtain-wall supplier Schmidlin (now called Schmidlin-TSK AG). The open-floor ventilation system did not operate as designed due to tenants adding glass partitions to increase security.
Since its completion, the building has won a number of awards for architecture. In October 2004, the architect was awarded the 2004 Stirling Prize. For the first time in the prize's history, the judges were unanimous. In December 2005, a survey of the world's largest firms of architects published in 2006 BD World Architecture 200 voted the tower as the most admired new building in the world. However, Ken Shuttleworth, who worked for Foster + Partners on the design of the building, said in 2011 that he believed the style was now out-moded: "I was looking at the glass all around and [thought], 'Why on earth did we do that?' Now we would do things differently". The building appeared in recent films such as Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, A Good Year, Basic Instinct 2, and Match Point and, rechristened the Spirit of London, became the spaceship centrepiece of Keith Mansfield's 2008 novel Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London.
In September 2006, the building was put up for sale with a price tag of £600 million. Potential buyers included British Land, Land Securities, Prudential, ING, and the Abu Dhabi royal family. On 21 February 2007, IVG Immobilien AG and UK investment firm Evans Randall completed their joint purchase of the building for £630 million, making it Britain's most expensive office building. Swiss Re made a gain of more than £300 million from the sale. The new owners are seeking compensation from four of their former managers on the deal, in which about £620 million was paid for a building with a build cost of about £200 million, giving the previous owners a clear £300 million profit.
Since February 2010, Sky News has broadcast its flagship business programme, Jeff Randall Live, from a studio in the building. The top two floors of the tower have been available since at least 2015 for private hire for events.
Deloitte announced in April 2014 that the building was again being put up for sale, with an expected price of £550 million. The current owners could not afford to make loan repayments, citing differences in the value of the multi-currency loan and the British pound, high interest rates and general financing structure. In November 2014, the Gherkin was purchased for £700 million by the Safra Group, controlled by the Brazilian billionaire Joseph Safra.