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Detail of Sony Center's roof, electrified for Sliders Sunday.
Sony Center, a 132,500 m² building complex at Potsdamer Platz (located across the Berliner Philharmonie), consists of several buildings of which the main complex was designed by Chicago-based architect Helmut Jahn. It was opened in 2000.
Sony Center's impressive 3,500 m² roof spans the entire patio, the so-called Forum. The spectacular roof construction consists of safety glass and translucent fabric panels which are attached by tie rods to a steel ring that rests on the surrounding buildings. The roof's shape represents Japan's Mount Fuji. In Japanese mythology, the Kami – holy powers or spirits that are worshipped in Shinto religion – live in the mountains. Since Berlin lies in a mostly flat region and has no real mountains to speak of, the roof's design was supposed to ensure the Kami's protection for Sony's European headquarters (today, Sony's German branch is located at Sony Center) by building them an artificial mountain to live in.
Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone!
Detail des Daches des Berliner Sony Centers am Potsdamer Platz (und gegenüber der Berliner Philharmonie). Eines der bekanntesten Merkmale des 132.000 m² großen Gebäudekomplexes ist das auffällig geformte, 3.500 m² große Dach, das den gesamten Innenhof, das sogenannte Forum, des Sony Centers überspannt. Die bemerkenswerte Stahlkonstruktion, die aus Sicherheitsglas sowie lichtdurchlässigen Stoffbahnen besteht, die mit Zug-Ankern an einem Stahlring befestigt sind, der auf den umliegenden Gebäuden aufliegt, wurde vom österreichischen Stahlbau-Unternehmen Waagner-Biro realisiert.
Die markante äußere Form des Daches symbolisiert Japans heiligen Berg Fujisan. Nach japanischem Glauben werden die Berge von den Kami bewohnt, gottähnlichen Geistern. Um auch für das Sony Center, das ursprünglich Sonys Europäischer Hauptsitz war (heute residiert dort Sonys deutsche Zweigniederlassung) den Schutz der Kami sicherzustellen – und da Berlin bekanntermaßen in flachem Gelände liegt und über keine echten Berge verfügt –, wurde das Dach der Form des Fujisan nachempfunden, um den Kami einen "Berliner Wohnsitz" zu schaffen.
Ich wünsche Euch einen guten Wochenstart, liebe Flickr-Freunde, passt gut auf Euch auf!
Red Chinese Pistache tree and golden Sycamores at the park. Enjoying the beauty of autumn while it lasts.
Thank you for your views, kind comments and faves - always appreciated.
HSS
"Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it.
Why my little party's just beginning."
-Wicked Witch of the West
done for Shocktober and sliderssunday
catching-up today, have fun everyone!
Due to the amount of awards and comments, I can't thank everyone individually, so I'm doing it here.
Thanks for stopping by my gallery. I’m very pleased and really appreciate each and every view of my photo, comments, invitations and awards.
Hello everyone,
It's an odd caption, but here's why. Even though I took this image on a hot summer day, the combo of yellow and purple reminds me of fall. And here we are, it's almost fall.
Edited with effects in Topaz Studio for Sliders Sunday. HSS!
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Have a bright and beautiful day!
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There’s Gold in the Stream
Or am I just lost in a Dream ?
A Golden Sheen under the Water’s Surface
This left me stunned and rather nervous
Not all that glitters is genuine Gold
Or is this just a Legend which has been told ?
(Caren)
Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)
😄 Happy Sliders Sunday 😄
On a sunny day I directed my camera right into the stream (in a Wild Garden in West Wales) and enhanced the colour with the Windows Photo Tool
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[Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)]
😄 HaPpY Sliders Sunday 😄
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😄 HaPpY Sliders Sunday 😄
[Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)]
My own Acryllic Painting on Canvas:
Slider: enhanced contrast and colour - ready to upload for the
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Explored July 4, 2021
Another re-edit of an image that I'd taken during a trip to the Baltic Sea island Usedom several years ago. Duly slid for Sliders Sunday – you can find the almost SooC original upload in the first comment. In the original, un-cropped image the beach line is almost exactly in the middle, because I hadn't dared to get any closer to the person that was lying there so picturesquely (and, as an afterthought from pandemic times: perfectly socially distanced). And since I had been so far away the gulls are mere spots of white in the distance, but I think they are still easily identifiable as gulls, albeit pretty impressionistic – or even pointillistic – gulls ;)
HSS, Everyone, and have a safe and nice new week ahead!
Weiß – Blau – Gelb
Eine weitere Neubearbeitung eines Bildes von meinem Usedom-Urlaub vor etlichen Jahren (ein erneuter Ostsee-Trip ist also längst überfällig). Für den Sliders Sunday habe ich angemessen an den Reglern diverser Bildbearbeitungsprogramme (namentlich aus der Nik Collection) gedreht. Das praktisch unbearbeitete Bild findet Ihr im 1. Kommentar. Beim unbeschnittenen Originalbild war die Strandlinie ziemlich genau in der Mitte – und das war mir schon damals zu viel Strand gewesen. Dieses Mal habe ich nicht ganz so viel vom Strand weggeschnitten, aber immer noch ein gutes Stück. Auflösungsmäßig geben hier die 13,8 MP der kleinen Pen in Verbindung mit dem Lumix-Weitwinkel-Pancake nicht so viel her, ich hätte deutlich näher an die so malerisch zwischen den Buhnen drapierte Person herangehen müssen, hatte mich aber nicht getraut. Aus dieser Entfernung sind die Möwen dann auch nur noch weiße Punkte, aber ich denke, dass jeder trotzdem weiß, dass es sich nicht um expressionistisch (oder pointillistisch) hingetupfte Farbe, sondern um stets hungrige und freche Ostsee-Möwen handelt ;)
Habt einen schönen Sonntag und eine guten Start in die neue Woche, liebe Flickr-Freunde, und passt weiterhin gut auf Euch auf!
Happy Sliders Sunday. I took this boring shot of my ladder against the garage wall and made some additions.
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No AI, no CGI, just good old-fashioned Photoshop
This is a true slider, a composite made of my other option for Macro Mondays' "Pastel" theme: a photo of a small round glass flacon (which also would make a pretty vase for a tiny bouquet), mostly clear, and decorated with a beautiful pink and rose banding (stratification? I'm not sure which is the correct word) with dark accents. Those dark, almost black lines in the banding were the main reason why I did not consider using the flacon image for "Pastel" (plus I thought the photo of the toothbrush, my previous upload, looked nicer and also more pastel). But I still liked the image, and the way I had photographed it (as close as possible and with the main focus on a tiny, roundish inclusion in the glass, the "eye"), it reminded me a lot of a pastel planet.
So why not actually turn it into a "real" Pastel Planet and create a space scene for Sliders Sunday? Since I had photographed the flacon against the same white backdrop as the toothbrush, the first step was to black out the background, or rather the bit of negative space on the left corner of the original photo's frame. I started with a dark vignette in Analog Efex, but that didn't look very realistic. Neither did the field of stars which I tried to create with the "Add noise" filter. There is a technique to create a realistic-looking starry space with the Noise filter, but it didn't quite work out for me, the main reason probably being the buggy Photoshop performance due to my now too-old graphics card. In fact, just the other day, after Creative Cloud had automatically updated PS to the latest 2023 version, I was greeted with the message "Your graphics processor is not compatible" (Dang! This means I'll need a new graphics card (etc.) ASAP!), so I had to go back to the previous PS version because that at least kind of still works. But luckily, I found a very easy way to create a field of stars with a custom brush. You can find a link to that tutorial at the end of the description.
In the end, I also decided to use only a section of the flacon to create a whole, perfectly round planet floating in space. The easiest way to make a round shape look like a 3D sphere is to use the "Spherize" filter (at 100%). After adding the moon (for which I used a sunset cloud photo I'd once taken from the balcony), I also added a Lighting effect from the left (please make sure your image mode is set to 8-bit). I also used the burn brush at a large size (midtones at 45% and 25% opacity) to add more of a 3D look to the spheres by painting the planet's and the moon's respective right edges a little darker. The (free) cloud photo I've used to create the nebula is courtesy of "Lemuria" on pixabay. How to make the nebula and also how to add a stratosphere-like glow around a sphere is also explained in the second tutorial. Here are the links to two of the tutorials I've checked out on YouTube:
"Star Brush" (which also includes the Noise filter technique; the video is in German with full English subtitles): Strg/Ctrl+ www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2RKefn5z5U&list=PL4f5dkvCwBQ...
"How to Make PLANETS in Photoshop": Strg/Ctrl+ www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLtvcrS4ph8
Please also make sure to check out the two photos of the flacon in the first comment, the first one was taken by magrit k. :)
Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone!
Captured, and processed with Deep Dream Generator, for Sliders Sunday. HSS everyone!
And for 121 pictures in 2021 #31 Exquisite
Photo taken and processed for Sliders Sunday. HSS everyone!
Edited using Deep Dream Generator and Snapseed.
Captured at Portland's Powell Butte Nature Park for Sliders Sunday. Edited using Deep Dream Generator and Snapseed. HSS everyone!
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A shot taken near Trafalgar Square, distorted and generally messed about with.
Happy Sliders Sunday!
This is for Sliders Sunday. I’ve post processed a photograph already on Flickr. It’s radically cropped. The colours are tweaked, but not so radically. It’s still the purply pink I remember. I love the blurry colour.
I took this photograph at the farm where I grew up and where I spent many happy hours as an adult. The living room door faces west, so there was a spectacular view of sunsets.