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Location: Fort Lee Historic Park - Fort Lee - New Jersey
The original date to this shot was November 11th 2009!!! I had my friend cboyle23 meet me there in hopes of the towers being illuminated!!! Much to our dismay they did not!!! It was so windy that day that we shot about 30 minutes worth and bounced out. It's such a shame that they no longer light the two towers. Originally they would light them for all National Holidays...(Check My Previous Posts)... Money is Tight!!! What a Pity!!! Would of Made a Great Shot!!!
At 3,030 feet long, 70 feet wide, and 876 feet above the river, the New River Gorge Bridge in West Virginia is impressive to see. The day before we got there was bridge day, half of the lanes were closed, and BASE jumpers were having fun leaping into the gorge. Now that would have been a photo op!
Whilst we were up in the Northeast, back in August 2018, I had a day to myself and so I headed off, armed with my photo-kit and "Bucket List". First stop was Middlesborough, for a trip across the Tees on the Transporter Bridge, something that I had been wanting to do for a very long time! I parked on the North back and made the return trip as a pedestrian but it was still great fun!
A perspective on La Grande Roue de Montreal in the Old Port of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
As the tallest ferris wheel in Canada, it was opened to the public on September 1, 2017, to celebrate the city of Montreal's 375th anniversary.
Its construction cost $28,000,000 CDN and was paid by private investors.
It is a Ferris wheel model WS60 (White Series 60 metres) from the Dutch Wheels Company (Vekoma Group) with a height of 60 metres (200 feet) and comprised of 42 passenger units, each of which can fit 8 persons for a total capacity of 336 passengers. A ride last 20 minutes.
Standing proudly in the heart of Tokyo, Tokyo Tower is an iconic symbol of the city’s post-war rebirth, embodying a fusion of Japan’s traditional aesthetics and modern aspirations. Inspired by the Eiffel Tower, this 333-meter structure was completed in 1958, making it a distinctive landmark during Japan’s economic boom. Unlike the French tower's classic iron hue, Tokyo Tower is painted in a striking red and white color scheme to meet air safety regulations. As Japan’s tallest structure at the time of its completion, it served as a beacon of Tokyo's modernization and a broadcast tower, transmitting signals across the city.
An insider tip: Visit the tower’s main observatory, where panoramic views of the sprawling cityscape and glimpses of Mount Fuji on clear days offer a breathtaking experience. You can also explore the lower levels filled with quaint souvenir shops and the Foot Town area featuring restaurants and a quirky "One Piece" manga-themed park. For those craving a romantic night, Tokyo Tower shines with different lighting schemes throughout the year, casting a warm glow over the city. The unique lighting designs change seasonally, and occasionally, special colors light up the tower for holidays or events, making each visit feel special and memorable. With its rich history, architectural significance, and unrivaled views, Tokyo Tower is more than a tourist spot—it's a cultural touchstone connecting past and present Tokyo.
The 232 m high structure is a pylon of steel used until the nineties to bring electricity line high voltage 220 KV that crossed the Strait of Messina between Sicily and Calabria.
Another Blown Glass structure by Dale Chihuly stands outside the Temple of Bellona
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens. London, UK
The demolition begins on the external structure of the Gasometre
More information here: huddersfieldhub.co.uk/date-is-set-for-demolition-of-hudde...
I shot this picture in Cambridge MA, on the MIT campus. The Ray and Maria Stata Center was designed by Pritzker-Prize winning Frank Gehry and finished in 2004. It is a very interesting building because of its many faces, angles and parts either made of bricks or metal.
To shoot this picture, I set up the camera touching the lower part of the building, in order to accentuate the leading lines and perspectives. I wanted to instill this feeling of looking up at a very high and menacing tower, a little bit like that of a medieval Castle, or something that people would use to reach Heaven, just like the biblical Tower of Babel.
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ISO 100
21 mm
335s (5min 35s) exposure
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The Forth Circle excursion train crossing the Forth Bridge on 6th September 2015.
(Please view F11 in lightbox for intended best.)
Al Faisaliyah Tower
Architect: Foster + Partners
Contractor: Bin Laden Construction Company
Owner: King Faisal Foundation
Consultants: Buro Happold, Brian Clarke, Sandy Brown Associates, WET Design
Date: 1994 – 2000
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The train slips out of Edinburgh beneath the blazing latticework of the Forth Rail Bridge, the August heat turning its iron into what looks like a molten red tunnel around the passing carriages. Seen from the Fife side, the daylight catches the metal in a way that feels both industrial and quietly surreal.
It’s a departure that mirrors the wider rhythm of how Edinburgh moves, trains stretching north while Lothian Buses thread their routes through the city below, each part of a transport story that’s real but refined. A summer moment shaped by heat, colour, and the sheer poetry of engineering.
Update on the wheelhouse. I removed the steelstructure for the sunscreens. It was present on the ship when it was build, but when launched it was removed. I have made a modification on the windows of the bridge. The first version shows the use of windows 1 x 2 x 2 without sil as windows. But that did not stroke with the real apperance of the bridge. I changed the windows into transclear panels 1 x 2 x 2 and used white stickers to get the right look. I have tried several snot constructions, but not one of them was good enough. Besides that I would have lost the black plates that sits, at the botom of all the walls, around the whole wheelhouse.
La Grande Roue de Montreal in the Old Port of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
As the tallest ferris wheel in Canada, it was opened to the public on September 1, 2017, to celebrate the city of Montreal's 375th anniversary.
Its construction cost $28,000,000 CDN and was paid by private investors.
It is a Ferris wheel model WS60 (White Series 60 metres) from the Dutch Wheels Company (Vekoma Group) with a height of 60 metres (200 feet) and comprised of 42 passenger units, each of which can fit 8 persons for a total capacity of 336 passengers. A ride last 20 minutes.
The former Nissan Dealership site is to become the new police station for Huddersfield.
A new regional HQ is being built in Dewsbury, while Huddersfield the larger of the two towns will get a reduced, in size and service, police station.
Demolition has finished and erecting the steel work has begun and is gaining pace in this shot taken from Tesco car park.
Anyway more information here: www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/new-hudde...
A massive steel gantry crane towers over the waterfront promenade at Pier 70, its lattice framework silhouetted against the deepening twilight sky. This industrial monument represents San Francisco's shipbuilding legacy, when cranes like these lifted heavy materials and ship components across the bustling waterfront during the district's operational years.
The crane's skeletal steel structure dominates the composition, its A-frame legs straddling what were once railway tracks that carried materials throughout the shipyard. The exposed steel lattice construction—designed for strength while minimizing wind resistance—creates geometric patterns against the blue hour sky. A second identical crane stands in the distance, emphasizing the scale of industrial operations that once defined this San Francisco Bay waterfront.
The wide concrete promenade stretches toward the crane, showing Pier 70's transformation from working industrial site to public waterfront space. White railings along the left protect pedestrians from the water's edge, while the broad paved surface accommodates walkers, runners, and cyclists exploring this newly accessible area. Contemporary residential buildings visible in the background show the mixed-use development bringing residents to the historic Dogpatch district.
Street lamps create starbursts of light as evening settles, illuminating the pathway while the sky transitions from blue to subtle pink tones. The white warehouse structure on the right with its exterior lighting represents adaptive reuse—industrial buildings repurposed for contemporary functions while maintaining the district's authentic character. The empty promenade at this twilight hour creates a contemplative atmosphere, allowing the preserved industrial infrastructure to command full attention.
These gantry cranes stand as sculptural monuments to San Francisco's maritime and industrial history, preserving the scale and character of Pier 70's shipbuilding past while serving new roles as landmarks, public art, and educational reminders of the working waterfront that built America's Pacific naval fleet.
Picture of a Chapel on MIT campus, Cambridge MA, 2013.
I shot this picture using Canon's 24mm T/S lens, and wanted to experiment with both shift and tilt. The symmetrical composition made it especially interesting to tilt the lens in order to introduce some blur as you go away from the spire.
To my knowledge, this is only the second image that mixes techniques of long exposure and lens tilting, applied to architecture (the first being Julia Anna Gospodarou's Fluid Time I).
I find the results very appealing and intriguing. In this case it feels like the building and spire appear from the darkness. This combination of techniques open up a whole new world of opportunities, which I intend to delve more into
As a teaser, I shared with you a few days ago one of the intermediate masks, and I hope you like the end result.
You might have noticed that selections were very tricky to do, even more than for regular LE architecture shots, because of the gradual increase of blur... I am still trying to develop the best way to do these selections, but I can tell you that is a completely new challenge, and it forced me to work some ~50 hours on this image alone and go down in scale to process individual pixels... like, seriously.
For this image, I also used the amazing neutral density filters provided in the Formatt Hitech Filters Joel Tjintjelaar signature edition kit. I am very happy with the improvement from B+W, since they are very neutral and do not display any color cast contrary to all of the other filters available commercially.
As usual, FB compression does a very bad job, but you can find a better resolution on my website.
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Technical info:
ND110 - 16 stops.
f/3.5
ISO 100
24 mm
96s (1min 36s) exposure
Maximum Shift upwards
5mm Tilt
Software:
PS CS5
Silver Efex Pro2
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The underside of an electricity pylon. I know it's been done before but not by me. It was a very dull day with no clouds around but I think it would have been a little distracting to the geometric and abstract lines. I have added a slight split tone to a colour shot.
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The Silver Jubilee Bridge or Runcorn Bridge crosses the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal at Runcorn Gap between Runcorn and Widnes in Cheshire, England. It is a through arch bridge with a main arch span of 1,082 feet (330 m). It was opened in 1961 as a replacement for the Widnes-Runcorn Transporter Bridge, and was initially known simply as the Runcorn Bridge or Runcorn–Widnes Bridge. In 1975–77 it was widened, after which it was given its official name in honour of the Queen's Silver Jubilee. It carries the A533 road and a cantilevered footway. The bridge has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed structure.
The first plan for a high-level bridge was a truss bridge with three or five spans, giving a 24 feet (7 m) dual carriageway with a cycle track and footpaths. This was abandoned because it was too expensive, and because one of the piers would be too close to the wall of the ship canal. The next idea was for a suspension bridge with a span of 1,030 feet (314 m) between the main towers with a 24 feet (7 m) single carriageway and a 6-foot (2 m) footpath. However aerodynamic tests on models of the bridge showed that, while the bridge itself would be stable, the presence of the adjacent railway bridge would cause severe oscillation. The finally accepted design was for a steel through arch bridge with a 30-foot (9 m) single carriageway. The design of the bridge is similar to that of Sydney Harbour Bridge but differs from it in that the side spans are continuous with the main span rather than being separate from them. This design feature was necessary to avoid the problem of oscillation due to the railway bridge.
This is some footage of the old transporter bridge, that this bridge replaced.
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Airman, wearing his 8th. Air Force patch, was made by Paul Richardson of Steel Structures at his workshop at Middleton in Suffolk. The sculpture is on the Cake and Ale holiday park on Abbey Road at Leiston, Suffolk, on land that was part of RAF Leiston.
RAF Leiston was known as Station 373 by the USAAF. It was home to the 357th. Fighter Group' known unofficially as 'The Yoxford Boys' after the village of Yoxford near their base.
The group were at Leiston from 31st January 1944 to 8th. July 1945 flying North American P-51 Mustangs.
The 357 FG was comprised of:
362nd. Fighter Squadron, coded G4
363rd. Fighter Squadron, coded B6
364th. Fighter Squadron, coded C5
The group flew its first combat mission on 11th. February 1944 and its 313th. and final combat mission on 25th. April 1945.
A total of 128 P-51's were lost in combat by the group. 38 were attributed to attack by German fighters, 29 to flak, 10 to mid-air collisions, 21 to mechanical causes, mostly engine failure, 5 to friendly fire, 5 to bad weather and 20 to causes not determined. 60 pilots were killed or missing in action, 54 were made prisoners of war with two of those dying in captivity and 13 evaded capture to return to duty. The additional two casualties were a pilot killed and a squadron commander made POW while flying with the 354th FG in January 1944. 3 other pilots landed in neutral territory and were interned.
A total of 26 Mustangs were destroyed in operational and training accidents, as was an AT-6 trainer. A total of 13 pilots and a mechanic were killed, three of whom died after cessation of combat operations
The first aerial victory by a 357th. pilot occurred 20th. February 1944, with the downing of a Bf 109 by 1st. Lt. Calvert L. Williams, 362nd. FS flying P-51B, coded G4-U, named 'Wee Willie' and with the serial number 43-6448. The final victory was an Me 262 jet shot down on 19th. April 1945, by 2nd. Lt. James P. McMullen, 364th. FS.
The 357th. FG had 609+1⁄2 claims credited by the Eighth Air Force for German aircraft destroyed in air-to-air combat. U.S. Air Force Historical Study No. 85 recognizes 595.49 aerial victories for the 357th. This total is the third highest among USAAF fighter groups in the European Theatre of Operations (ETO), behind the 354th. and 56th. FG's, the second highest among Eighth Air Force groups, and the highest among the 14 P-51 groups of VIII Fighter Command.
Eighth Air Force also credited the 357th. FG with 106+1⁄2 German aircraft destroyed on the ground, making an overall total of 701.99, which is sixth among all Eighth Air Force fighter groups. Of the air-to-air totals, 18+1⁄2 were Me 262 jets, the most destroyed in aerial combat by any USAAF group.
Among the various units of the 357th, the 364th. FS had the most victories with 70 pilots credited with 212 kills. The 362nd. FS was credited with 198 kills by 63 pilots, the 363rd. FS with 154.99 kills by 50 pilots, and Group HQ with 30.5 kills by nine pilots.
Counting only air-to-air victories registered while with the group, therefore discounting air-to-ground claims, the 357th. had 42 pilots become aces, the most of any ETO fighter group.
The group received 2 Distinguished Unit Citation:
Berlin, 6th. March 1944 and Leipzig, 29th. June 1944
Derben, 14th. January 1945
The groups WWII campaigns were:
Air Offensive, Europe
Normandy
Northern France
Rhineland
Ardennes-Alsace
Central Europe