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Taken in the lobby of a very eclectic office building in my town. The architect used reclaimed materials throughout.
ODC Angular
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This is part of a zigzag pattern of glass windows in the building at Landmark Square in Long Beach. From the street this looks rather uniformly blue, due to the sky reflecting off of the glass, but by using a polarizing filter, and boosting the contrast and saturation I was able to bring out the subtle colors in the individual rows of glass.
This appears to be a close, backlit view of a translucent yellow-to-amber crystal mass. The image is dominated by angular internal planes, overlapping crystal faces, fractures, and small dark inclusions.
The central crystal is the clearest structural anchor: a large, blocky form with sharply defined faces surrounded by a dense mosaic of smaller intergrown crystals.
The lighting makes the specimen read almost like stained glass or frozen honey, with darker brown margins framing a brighter, more luminous center.
Discussion
Visually, it most closely resembles calcite or a similar translucent cleavage-rich mineral, because the crystal mass shows many non-cubic, slanted internal faces and a strongly fractured, rhombohedral-looking structure.
Calcite is well known for prominent rhombohedral cleavage, wide variation in color, and transparent to translucent forms, including yellow and honey-colored examples.
By contrast, fluorite is more associated with cubic crystals and perfect octahedral cleavage, which is not the dominant geometry here.
Based on the visible structure alone, honey/yellow calcite is the most plausible visual match, but an exact mineral ID is still not conclusive from the photograph alone.
Photographically, the strength of the image is its internal complexity.
It works less as a specimen-record shot and more as an abstract study of transparency, geometry, and light transmission.
The strongest visual elements are:
the bright central zone against the darker perimeter
repetition of angular planes
the large central crystal acting as a focal point
suspended inclusions and cracks that give scale and depth
What weakens it slightly as a pure abstract is that the brightest area at right approaches overexposure, while the upper edge has some darker, murkier zones that pull attention unevenly.
But overall it is visually rich and has strong texture, depth, and internal luminosity.
Scottish Parliment at Holyrood, Edinburgh. 14th Oct 2014. FED 50 with K2 Yellow filter with Ilford XP2. Lab C41 processed and scanned.
An alternative portrait composition of one of my favourite buildings in Paintworks, Bristol. Love the simplicity, boldness, colours and angles in this architectural design.
An accidental mini shoot with a few sprigs from Christmas flowers & some ice from a bucket left outside. This was lots of fun especially because it was sandwiched between a portrait session and a special event shoot.
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A close-up of portable plastic traffic barriers.
(Shot with the low-res camera in my cellphone, Sept. 2013.)
C. J.R. Devaney
a lot of kids were having fun at this park playing on the dock, but the Moms weren't so sure about the whole thing. haha
A close-up, tilted view of some orange plastic traffic barriers.
(cellphone camera shot, Oct. 2013)
C. J.R. Devaney
Rarely will the ice form on the edges of the Willamette River. On this particular day, the wind was absent, and the still water of a cove froze. The sun illuminated the water beneath and the blue sky reflected off the triangle sections. Minutes after making this image, the sun melted the surface ice.