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A vantage point affords a view of the urban sprawl in the Strijp-S suburb of Eindhoven, Netherlands. Strijp-S used to be the industrial centre of Philips.
This monochrome shot aims at focusing on industrial shapes and patterns alone, so it is stripped of distracting colours.
From there one sees the rear of the Philips Stadion, home of the PSV Eindhoven team (PSV: Philips Sport Vereniging). The football stadium has a 35,000-seat capacity and holds a 4-star rating by UEFA; its last renovation was completed in 2002.
A soaring high-rise dominates the skyline on the left, with glass and steel all around its 21 storeys.
On the right one can see the 70 metre-high tower of St. Catherine’s Cathedral far away. The church was designed in the 1860s by Pierre Cuypers in neo-Gothic style, in juxtaposition with the industrial kind of urban landscape closer.
I love the shape of this tree, standing on the crest of a small ridge, overlooking little Mahurangi harbour, just a few minutes north of Auckland (the lights to the right.) Just a single shot using Sony's 14mm f1.8 GM, and some clumsy light painting with the torch on my iPhone.
In all of the years I have lived here, I still don't think I fully grasp how big and populous this city is.
Taken from Lotte Tower
Seoul, Korea
October 2020
A single Alco RS2 is working the sprawling yards of Port Covington in Baltimore, Maryland on the Tide Subdivision. Photo is taken from the Hanover Street Bridge. In the center background are the piggy-back ramps for loading or unloading trailers. Before going into decline in the 1970's, Port Covington offered facilities for transloading coal, ore, grain, and merchandise to or from ships at nine different piers. WM 180 was built in July 1947 and did make it into the early 1970's. It was retired soon after the Chessie System takeover.
Photograph taken by the famed railroad photographer Bill Folsom (1940-2008). Photo purchased from his son Robert Folsom and posted here with special permission.
Taken from one of the cable cars which crosses from the North Greenwich peninsula to the north of the Thames. It takes about 10 minutes and is vaguely interesting. There's a bit of reflection from the cable car in part of the clouds if you look very carefully but I don't think it detracts at all from the view and the sprawl of London that's definitely not part of the touristic scene!
In the snow-burdened countryside outside the sprawling urbanization of Cedar Falls, IA is the Rotary Reserve Lodge & Reservation, whose road and parking lot was surprisingly plowed on this icy January afternoon. The plowed road meant with the arrival of northbound Iowa Northern freight train WABU-09, there would be a snow bank to bust, and bust through it did with EMD F40M-2C #458 leading the charge through the explosion of ice and snow on January 9, 2024.
Great care is taken to ensure that the site for a new telescope will provide the best possible observing conditions. This picture of the week was captured in 2019 by ESO photo ambassador Petr Horálek from the top of Cerro Armazones, Chile, where the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is being constructed. Situated in the heart of the Atacama desert, at an altitude of 3046 metres, this high and dry location will be vital to showcase and utilise the ELT’s incredible observational power. This extraordinary panorama of the Atacama desert frames a sprawling view of our own Milky Way galaxy, seen with stunning clarity as a result of the minimum light pollution in this remote area. Massive interstellar dust clouds obscure the more distant starlight, leading to the distinctive “mottled” band in the night sky.