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A Kusudama, for those not familiar with the term, is a modular papercraft origami model, where multiple units may be glued, sewed or connected with themselves using underlying geometric principles of polyhedra to form a spherical shape.
The word "Kusudama" literally means "Medicine Ball" when translated from Japanese. They were originally used for incense and potpourri.
Here you see 3 units connected together. A first step for assembling another kusudama, that I will show you tomorrow, have to make a photo first today ;-)
Wishing you all a lovely Tuesday !!
This is a spherical view of St Etheldreda's Chapel in Ely Cathedral, an Anglican cathedral in the city of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. The chapel is a shrine to the Saxon queen Etheldreda who founded a monastery on the site in 673. The present building dates back to 1083, and it was granted cathedral status in 1109. The east end of the cathedral, which contains this chapel, the Presbytery and the High Altar, was completed in 1252.
The cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Ely and a suffragan bishop, the Bishop of Huntingdon. Architecturally it is outstanding both for its scale and stylistic details. Having been built in a monumental Romanesque style, the galilee porch, lady chapel and choir were rebuilt in an exuberant Decorated Gothic style.
I created this spherical panorama by taking 9 frames with a fisheye lens and stitching them together to form a 188 megapixel image that covers the entire 360˚ view, from floor to ceiling. Each frame was taken with 5 bracketed exposures to capture the full dynamic range from the bright windows to the dark corners. I transformed the spherical panorama to the 2D rectangle you see here using stereographic projection.
Ref: en.wikipedia.org
This is a spherical view of St Etheldreda's Chapel in Ely Cathedral, an Anglican cathedral in the city of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. The chapel is a shrine to the Saxon queen Etheldreda who founded a monastery on the site in 673. The present building dates back to 1083, and it was granted cathedral status in 1109. The east end of the cathedral, which contains this chapel, the Presbytery and the High Altar, was completed in 1252.
The cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Ely and a suffragan bishop, the Bishop of Huntingdon. Architecturally it is outstanding both for its scale and stylistic details. Having been built in a monumental Romanesque style, the galilee porch, lady chapel and choir were rebuilt in an exuberant Decorated Gothic style.
I created this spherical panorama by taking 9 frames with a fisheye lens and stitching them together to form a 188 megapixel image that covers the entire 360˚ view, from floor to ceiling. Each frame was taken with 5 bracketed exposures to capture the full dynamic range from the bright windows to the dark corners. I transformed the spherical panorama to the 2D rectangle you see here using stereographic projection.
Ref: en.wikipedia.org
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The Fernsehturm Berlin (Berlin Television Tower) was the reason for being at the Alexanderplatz but we were too early for our pre-booked tickets to the viewing platform. That's why we discovered the "Rotes Rathaus" and we had some time to look around.
A large steel ball is placed upon the convergence point of some lines that radiate outwards from the centre.
This is the Quire at York Minster, England, the second-largest Gothic cathedral of Northern Europe. The present building was begun in about 1230 and completed in 1472.
The Quire was built between 1361 and the 1420s, although much of the original structure was destroyed in a fire started deliberately on the night of 1 February 1829. The blaze had been started by Jonathan Martin, a frequent visitor to the cathedral at the time, who had attended a service that afternoon and then hidden inside until the building was locked for the night. Martin reportedly used a rope taken from the bell tower to climb into the Quire, before setting the area alight and making his escape through a window. The fire wasn't detected until the following morning, but despite the best efforts of firefighters, the blaze completely destroyed the Quire including its medieval panelling, stalls, roof and the Grand Organ. The instrument is believed to have dated in part from 1632.
It is unclear why Martin started the fire – some suggest he disliked the style of worship at the Minster and others have reported that he claimed to dislike the noise the organ made. He is quoted as saying: "I'll have thee down tonight, thou shalt buzz no more." He was arrested shortly after the fire, declared insane at trial and sent to Bedlam Hospital in London where he spent the rest of his life.
As part of the rebuilding work at the Minster after the fire, a new Grand Organ was commissioned in 1829, and parts of this instrument still exist today. A donation of £3,000 paid for most of the cost of the new organ and its "gingerbread gothic" style case which sits above the Quire Screen.
In 2018 a major 3-year, £2m refurbishment began on the organ, the first on this scale since 1903. The instrument was removed in October 2018 – including nearly all of its 5,403 pipes – and taken to Durham for repair and refurbishment by organ specialists Harrison and Harrison. The majority of the 100 display pipes in the main organ casing will be brought back into use for the first time in more than 100 years. The organ has now been returned to the cathedral and work is underway to rebuild it, ready for completion in spring 2021.
This super-wide-angle view was taken from a high resolution spherical panorama I created by taking 9 frames with a fisheye lens and stitching them together to form a 188 megapixel image that covers the entire 360˚ view, from floor to ceiling. Each frame was taken with 5 bracketed exposures to capture the full dynamic range from the bright windows to the dark corners. I transformed the spherical panorama to the 2D rectangle you see here using stereographic projection.
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Kugeldistel
/ Macro / Spezial bokeh / Blitzfotografie / Gegenlicht / High Key / Pastell / Hintergrund Stahlwolle - Fotografie
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Ball thistle
/ Macro / Special Bokeh / Flash Photography / Back Light / High Key / Pastel / Background Steel Wool - Photography
L'architecte Antony Gibbon a donné une touche d'élégance à cette cabane douillette, en concevant une escapade hivernale de rêve.
Son projet, Burl Treehouse , s'inscrit dans la mission de Gibbon de marier innovation et durabilité dans des conceptions qui laissent les réflecteurs à leur environnement naturel.
S'inspirant de formes organiques, le concept Burl Treehouse nous rappelle que le design minimaliste n'a pas besoin d'être sobre, mais peut au contraire servir de véhicule à la fantaisie.
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Architect Antony Gibbon has given a stylish twist to the cozy treehouse, conceiving a dreamy winter getaway.
His project, Burl Treehouse, follows Gibbon's mission to marry innovation with sustainability in designs that cede the reflectors to their natural surroundings.
Drawing from organic shapes, the Burl Treehouse concept reminds us that minimalist design doesn't have to be sober, but can instead serve as a vehicle for whimsy.
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This is the Quire at York Minster, England, the second-largest Gothic cathedral of Northern Europe. The present building was begun in about 1230 and completed in 1472.
The Quire was built between 1361 and the 1420s, although much of the original structure was destroyed in a fire started deliberately on the night of 1 February 1829. The blaze had been started by Jonathan Martin, a frequent visitor to the cathedral at the time, who had attended a service that afternoon and then hidden inside until the building was locked for the night. Martin reportedly used a rope taken from the bell tower to climb into the Quire, before setting the area alight and making his escape through a window. The fire wasn't detected until the following morning, but despite the best efforts of firefighters, the blaze completely destroyed the Quire including its medieval panelling, stalls, roof and the Grand Organ. The instrument is believed to have dated in part from 1632.
It is unclear why Martin started the fire – some suggest he disliked the style of worship at the Minster and others have reported that he claimed to dislike the noise the organ made. He is quoted as saying: "I'll have thee down tonight, thou shalt buzz no more." He was arrested shortly after the fire, declared insane at trial and sent to Bedlam Hospital in London where he spent the rest of his life.
As part of the rebuilding work at the Minster after the fire, a new Grand Organ was commissioned in 1829, and parts of this instrument still exist today. A donation of £3,000 paid for most of the cost of the new organ and its "gingerbread gothic" style case which sits above the Quire Screen.
In 2018 a major 3-year, £2m refurbishment began on the organ, the first on this scale since 1903. The instrument was removed in October 2018 – including nearly all of its 5,403 pipes – and taken to Durham for repair and refurbishment by organ specialists Harrison and Harrison. The majority of the 100 display pipes in the main organ casing will be brought back into use for the first time in more than 100 years. The organ has now been returned to the cathedral and work is underway to rebuild it, ready for completion in spring 2021.
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This spherical panorama was taken in the Presbytery at Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire, England. Architecturally, the cathedral is outstanding both for its scale and stylistic details. Having been built originally in a monumental Romanesque style, the galilee porch, lady chapel and choir were rebuilt in an exuberant Decorated Gothic style. The present building dates back to 1083, and it was granted cathedral status in 1109.
The east end of the cathedral, shown here, was completed in 1252. The Presbytery was built to house the shrine of St Etheldreda, the founder of the original monastery that occupied this site from 673. The shrine attracted pilgrims for centuries until it was destroyed in the Reformation. At the top of the image you can see the ornately carved wooden choir stalls. Above them are the organ pipe console and the 14th century central octagon tower lantern. If you look closely you can also see the finely decorated Victorian ceiling of the nave leading off into the distance beyond the octagon tower.
Following the roof down towards the bottom of the image leads us to the great east window of St Etheldreda's Chapel and, below this, the glowing High Altar. On the right is an example of one of the beautiful Victorian stained glass windows that surround the Presbytery.
Ref: en.wikipedia.org
A new tack. I wanted to push myself out of my usual method and bring in raw sources from outside of my own back catalogue and use free images from the internet. Courtesy of Bing I picked a selection of "spheres" in a variety of modelling effects ( those that make the 2D image look 3D, such as shadows and highlights etc ). From there I based my image on them.
In this case I used spheres in the 3 basic, primary colours and manipulated from there. Hence the title.
Image created May 20, 2022
Explore May 29, 2022
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bert flugelman’s ‘the spheres’, popularly known as ‘the mall’s balls’, and arguably the most well known meeting point in the city, rundle mall, adelaide, south australia
iphone 16, snapseed
A few days ago I failed to photograph a spherical, hairy, very hard cupula (Latin cupula - cup), which I plucked from a tree branch (at that time unidentified by me). I brought it home in a sunglasses case and remembered about it only the next day. It turned out that after being in the case for 24 hours, it magically, unexpectedly for me, opened up and began to look like a miniature landed space station. Inside it were two brown pyramid-shaped capsules (fruits).
I decided to repeat everything - we went to the botanical garden again, found the same tree (already identified - European beech). The tree is quite large (age not less than 10 years) with a very spreading crown, probably still young, I easily reached the branches, tore off three pluses and several leaves. At home I immediately photographed them (see photo) and put the pluses back in the sunglasses case.
Кілька днів тому я не зміг сфотографувати кулясту, волохату, дуже тверду плюску (лат. cupula - чашечка), яку я зірвав з гілки дерева (на той момент невизначеного мною). Я приніс її додому у футлярі для сонячних окулярів і згадав про неї лише наступного дня. Виявилося, що перебуваючи добу у футлярі, вона казковим чином, несподівано для мене, розкрилася і стала схожа на мініатюрну космічну станцію, що приземлилася. Усередині неї було дві коричневі пірамідальної форми капсули (плоди).
Я вирішив усе повторити - ми знову поїхали до ботанічного саду, знайшли те саме дерево (вже певне - європейський бук). Дерево досить велике з дуже розлогою кроною, напевно, ще молоде (вік не менше 10 років), до гілок я легко дістався, зірвав три плюски та кілька листків. Вдома я їх одразу сфотографував (дивися фото) а плюски знову поклав у футляр для сонячних окулярів.
This is the Lady Chapel at Lichfield Cathedral, in Staffordshire, England. It's a magnificent gothic cathedral built between 1195 and 1340 - the only medieval English cathedral with three spires.
Dedicated to St Chad and Saint Mary, its internal length is 113 m (371 ft), and the breadth of the nave is 21 m (69 ft). The central spire is 77 m (253 ft) high and the western spires are about 58 m (190 ft).
The stone is sandstone and came from a quarry on the south side of Lichfield. The walls of the nave lean outwards slightly, due to the weight of stone used in the ceiling vaulting; some 200–300 tons of which was removed during renovation work to prevent the walls leaning further.
Lichfield suffered severe damage during the English Civil War of 1642–1651, in which all of the stained glass was destroyed. In spite of this, the windows of the Lady Chapel (shown in this photo) contain some of the finest medieval Flemish painted glass in existence. Dating from the 1530s, it came from the Abbey of Herkenrode in Belgium, in 1801, having been purchased by Brooke Boothby when that abbey was dissolved during the Napoleonic Wars.
In February 2003, an eighth-century sculpted panel of the Archangel Gabriel was discovered under the nave of the cathedral. The 600mm tall panel is carved from limestone, and originally was part of a stone chest, which is thought to have contained the relics of St Chad. The panel was broken into three parts but was still otherwise intact and had traces of red pigment from the period. The pigments on the Lichfield Angel correspond closely to those of the Lichfield Gospels which have been dated to around 730AD. The Angel was first unveiled to the public in 2006, when visitor numbers to the cathedral trebled. After being taken to Birmingham for eighteen months for examination, it is now exhibited in the cathedral.
This photo was created by taking 9 shots with a fisheye lens and stitching them together to form a 188MP image that covers the entire 360˚ view, from floor to ceiling. The tripod is removed by taking two 'straight down' shots from slightly different positions, using a dedicated spherical panoramic head that can offset the camera position away from the central axis of the tripod. Each frame was taken with 5 exposures to capture the full dynamic range from the bright windows to the dark corners (so 45 shots in total). The spherical panorama was transformed to the 2D rectangle you see here using transverse Mercator projection. This version is cropped so it doesn't quite include the full 360˚.
Canon EOS 90D
Canon EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM @ 10mm
2.5s | 0.8s | 1/4s | 1/13s | 1/40s (+3.33/+1.7/0/-1.7/-3.33EV)
f/9
ISO 200
Stitching & reprojection: PTGui Pro
Exposure blending and tonemapping: Aurora HDR