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Bring your boarding chip to the metallic green Conductor on Platform 6. From there take the Blue line into Zone 4, the Nucleus of the Sprawl.
~ Stewart
— Here is a close-up of the striking tree in the previous photo. Patterns in the natural world have always fascinated me and whenever I see one I need to photograph it. This was shot in the mid morning and the dear old Sun had just cleared the ridge behind camera and begun throwing some warm rays on the tree.
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Few cities in the world capture the imagination as much as Bangkok. Ornate palaces that host royal processions, Buddhist temples that witness monks chanting ancient temples, canals that lead to a maze of water markets, night bazaars that never sleep - have long proved a powerful magnet for travelers. In this sprawling metropolis, Banyan Tree Bangkok, a 5-star luxury hotel in Sathorn road, offers a spectacular rooftop restaurant and bar - Vertigo Grill & Moon Bar on the elevated 61th floor. The hostess Suritawa welcomes us with the hospitality Thailand is famous for. The greater Bangkok area has a population over 14 million. This has in turn shifted the country from being a rather homogeneous Thai population to an increasingly vibrant mix of Western, Indian and Chinese people, giving the city a cosmopolitan status. Bangkok is known in Thai as Krung Thep Mahanakhon. The ceremonial name translates it to The city of angels.
Vertigo & Moon rooftop bar at Banyan Tree Bangkok is located on the 61st floor, offering an outstanding 360-degree view of the Bangkok skyline and its surroundings. It is a double setting, where the restaurant part is called Vertigo and the bar is called Moon Bar. Opening hours: 6.30pm - 11pm (weather permitting). It's one of the best bars in the world!
De bar Vertigo & Moon op het dak van Banyan Tree Hotel Bangkok bevindt zich op de 61e verdieping en biedt een prachtig 360-graden uitzicht op de skyline van Bangkok en de omgeving. Het is een dubbele setting, waarbij het restaurantgedeelte Vertigo heet en de bar Moon Bar. Het is de op één na hoogste bar van Zuidoost-Azie en u heeft er een prachtig uitzicht over Bangkok. Als u romantisch wil cocktailen moet u hier zijn; bovendien liggen de prijzen van de drankjes hier rond het normale hotelbar-niveau. Je kunt er vanaf 17.00 uur terecht. Mooi, want dan maakt u de zonsondergang tussen 17.30 en 18.00 uur mee, als de miljarden lichtjes van Bangkok gaan fonkelen -een fascinerende aanblik. Je kunt in deze bar gerust aanschuiven om alleen iets te drinken. Het eten in de aanpalende Vertigo Grill is goed, naar Thaise maatstaven wel behoorlijk aan de prijs. Een diner voor twee kost zo'n 200 EUR inclusief de wijn. Maar ja, zo'n ambiance mag ook wat kosten!
Infrared shot from South Carolina. I can't remember the name of this tree. It's not overly famous and in a little suburban cul-de-sac, but very impressive.
I did not want to try a birds' eye view showing
how huge Paris is--but did it and am happy I've tried this type of scene now.
How daunting to see so MUCH to try to
suggest !
Having a subject is over-rated. I kind of like this photo just because the desert is so uniform.
We've had some real clouds the past couple of days. I'm really happy for that because I can finally photograph the desert sans harsh shadows. It's almost a game of waiting, frantically snapping, and then waiting again for another cloud to come by.
Anyways, hope you guys like it.
The sprawling Royal Palace complex is right inside the capital city of Phnom Penh. Prince Norodom Sihanouk lived here during Pol Pot regime almost as a prisoner, blissfully ignorant of what was going on outside.
The former McGill smelter site has a few buildings remaining, awaiting future preservation as part of the Nevada Northern Railway's plans to restore service to McGill.
While the mine may be the start of the copper production process, it may be the mills and smelters that are the heart of it. The McGill complex was a massive sprawling smelter site which turned raw ore into blister copper. Final refining work was done further east, as the blister copper would then be shipped out by rail to the refinery (the operating smelter at Garfield, Utah is a rare exception having had its own refinery built on site in the 1940s).
Although the mines near Ely are still active, they rely now on either shipping the ore to active smelters such as the Garfield Smelter in Utah, or overseas for final processing; and the McGill smelter is now mostly silent with many of the major buildings demolished. The row of offices, labs and machine shops still standing though are an impressive testament to the work once done on site.
The area that was to become West Palm Beach was settled in the late 1870s and 1880s by a few hundred settlers who called the vicinity "Lake Worth Country." These settlers were a diverse community from different parts of the United States and the world. They included founding families such at the Potters and the Lainharts, who would go on to become leading members of the business community in the fledgling city. The first white settlers in Palm Beach County lived around Lake Worth, then an enclosed freshwater lake, named for Colonel William Jenkins Worth, who had fought in the Second Seminole War in Florida in 1842. Most settlers engaged in the growing of tropical fruits and vegetables for shipment the north via Lake Worth and the Indian River. By 1890, the U.S. Census counted over 200 people settled along Lake Worth in the vicinity of what would become West Palm Beach. The area at this time also boasted a hotel, the "Cocoanut House", a church, and a post office. The city was platted by Henry Flagler as a community to house the servants working in the two grand hotels on the neighboring island of Palm Beach, across Lake Worth in 1893, coinciding with the arrival of the Florida East Coast railroad. Flagler paid two area settlers, Captain Porter and Louie Hillhouse, a combined sum of $45,000 for the original town site, stretching from Clear Lake to Lake Worth.
On November 5, 1894, 78 people met at the "Calaboose" (the first jail and police station located at Clematis St. and Poinsettia, now Dixie Hwy.) and passed the motion to incorporate the Town of West Palm Beach in what was then Dade County (now Miami-Dade County). This made West Palm Beach the first incorporated municipality in Dade County and in South Florida. The town council quickly addressed the building codes and the tents and shanties were replaced by brick, brick veneer, and stone buildings. The city grew steadily during the 1890s and the first two decades of the 20th century, most residents were engaged in the tourist industry and related services or winter vegetable market and tropical fruit trade. In 1909, Palm Beach County was formed by the Florida State Legislature and West Palm Beach became the county seat. In 1916, a new neo-classical courthouse was opened, which has been painstakingly restored back to its original condition, and is now used as the local history museum.
The city grew rapidly in the 1920s as part of the Florida land boom. The population of West Palm Beach quadrupled from 1920 to 1927, and all kinds of businesses and public services grew along with it. Many of the city's landmark structures and preserved neighborhoods were constructed during this period. Originally, Flagler intended for his Florida East Coast Railway to have its terminus in West Palm, but after the area experienced a deep freeze, he chose to extend the railroad to Miami instead.
The land boom was already faltering when city was devastated by the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane. The Depression years of the 1930s were a quiet time for the area, which saw slight population growth and property values lower than during the 1920s. The city only recovered with the onset of World War II, which saw the construction of Palm Beach Air Force Base, which brought thousands of military personnel to the city. The base was vital to the allied war effort, as it provided an excellent training facility and had unparalleled access to North Africa for a North American city. Also during World War II, German U-Boats sank dozens of merchant ships and oil tankers just off the coast of West Palm Beach. Nearby Palm Beach was under black out conditions to minimize night visibility to German U-boats.
The 1950s saw another boom in population, partly due to the return of many soldiers and airmen who had served in the vicinity during the war. Also, the advent of air conditioning encouraged growth, as year-round living in a tropical climate became more acceptable to northerners. West Palm Beach became the one of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas during the 1950s; the city's borders spread west of Military Trail and south to Lake Clarke Shores. However, many of the city's residents still lived within a narrow six-block wide strip from the south to north end. The neighborhoods were strictly segregated between White and African-American populations, a legacy that the city still struggles with today. The primary shopping district remained downtown, centered around Clematis Street.
In the 1960s, Palm Beach County's first enclosed shopping mall, the Palm Beach Mall, and an indoor arena were completed. These projects led to a brief revival for the city, but in the 1970s and 1980s crime continued to be a serious issue and suburban sprawl continued to drain resources and business away from the old downtown area. By the early 1990s there were very high vacancy rates downtown, and serious levels of urban blight.
Since the 1990s, developments such as CityPlace and the preservation and renovation of 1920s architecture in the nightlife hub of Clematis Street have seen a downtown resurgence in the entertainment and shopping district. The city has also placed emphasis on neighborhood development and revitalization, in historic districts such as Northwood, Flamingo Park, and El Cid. Some neighborhoods still struggle with blight and crime, as well as lowered property values caused by the Great Recession, which hit the region particularly hard. Since the recovery, multiple new developments have been completed. The Palm Beach Mall, located at the Interstate 95/Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard interchange became abandoned as downtown revitalized - the very mall that initiated the original abandonment of the downtown. The mall was then redeveloped into the Palm Beach Fashion Outlets in February 2014. A station for All Aboard Florida, a high speed passenger rail service serving Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Orlando, is under construction as of July 2015.
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Taken from the north-east corner of the Empire State building. You can just make out the Crysler and trump buildings in the centre.
This is a stitched from 9 source images, hand-held. I played with the output projection for quite some time, looking for one that worked - ended up deciding that this inception-esq view worked well.
My travels with my son. July 2019 Guangzhou, China.
Traveling from Guangzhou Airport in China to our hotel. We have a wait of around 17 hours between flights before our next long flight to Christchurch New Zealand.
Guangzhou is a sprawling port city northwest of Hong Kong on the Pearl River. The city features avant-garde architecture such as Zaha Hadid’s Guangzhou Opera House (known as the “double pebble”); the carved box-shaped Guangdong Museum; and the iconic Canton TV Tower skyscraper, resembling a thin hourglass. The Chen Clan Ancestral Hall, a temple complex from 1894, also houses the Guangdong Folk Arts Museum.
For More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou
Twilight sets in along a row of orange trees in Central Florida. Citrus once was king of Florida, but the industry is currently a shell of what it once was as a series of blights and rising real estate values have left the venture less profitable relative to other industries in Florida. Many small towns (and even large ones) across Central Florida are seeing the orange groves that the towns were originally built on give way to subdivisions and sprawl.
Cholistan. Cholistan Desert (Urdu: صحرائے چولستان), also locally known as Rohi) sprawls thirty kilometers from Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan and covers an area of 16,000 km². It adjoins the Thar Desert extending over to Sindh and into India.
The word Cholistan is derived from the Turkish word Chol, which means Desert. Cholistan thus means Land of the Desert. The people of Cholistan lead a semi-nomadic life, moving from one place to another in search of water and fodder for their animals. At one time there were 400 forts in the area and archaeological finds around the Darawar Fort, the only place with a perennial waterhole.
The forts here were built at 29 km intervals, which probably served as guard posts for the camel caravan routes. They are all in ruins now, and you can see that they were built with double walls of gypsum blocks and mud. Some of them date back to 1000 BC, and were destroyed and rebuilt many times.
The Desert also has an Annual Jeep Rally, known as Annual Cholistan Jeep Rally
This is a suburb, or neighbouring town, of Shimla, the former British Raj's summer capital of India. I think it's called Engine Ghar. Shimla sprawls over many adjoining ridges and hillsides. (I had some trouble processing this image, as I mistakenly captured it in JPEG with a flat profile.)
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Cover Artwork for republication of William Gibson's Neuromancer series. Generative city architecture.
This is my favourite type of snowflake. Geometric centers combined with out-stretched yet balanced branches. View large!
This snowflake even has a little colour to offer. Not only the "prismatic" colour in the branches (prismatic isn't a word, but I think ti fits), but there is some signs of thin film interference in a side-branch on the lower left. I love the little hints of colour that these snowflakes offer, breaking the monotone stereotype many people have for the subject.
These crystals are quite fragile, and pieces can easily break off. Again on the lower left branch you'll see one side-branch that appears to be transparent, where the rest of the snowflake is reflective. This branch is slightly broken, and bent onto a different angle. This angle might be only a few degrees, but it's enough to change how it appears to the camera. Finding a perfectly unbroken snowflake is more difficult that it may seem!
While I have not yet found the perfect snowflake, I'll keep looking. :) You can see a great collection of them in Sky Crystals, a 304 page hardcover book published at the beginning of this winter. www.skycrystals.ca/ - Science, photography and fascination!