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“I am humbled by the destructive and creative nature in us all. This is what keeps me painting.” – FAITH47 (American street artist).
The theme for "Smile on Saturday" for the 14th of June is "murals". Now, I won’t lie: being a traditionalist, I am no fan of street art, even though I know it is a legitimate and ever evolving art form. Last year I went to a famous Melbourne artists’ market, the Rose Street Market, looking for gifts for Christmas. The inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, where Rose Street and the Rose Street Market are, is famous for its murals and street art, as there is so much of it there. This mural is on a small apartment block on Rose Street in Fitzroy, and I only discovered it because I went to the market, and even I must confess that it is very beautiful with its two pink galahs looking down with beady eyes. As I learned from a dear Flickr friend John from Brisbane that the beautiful orange brown eyes that they have denote these two are females. I dedicate this photo to my very dear Flickr friend whom some of you know, The Pocket Rocket. She is a lover (and photographer of) Australian birds, including galahs, and her favourite colour is pink. . I hope you like my choice of this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!
A residential building at Avenida OUA in the district of Achada de Santo António in the city of Praia on the island of Santiago, Cape Verde.
Balconies of the twin apartment blocks known as Hoxton Press Mono and Duo, on the site of the former Colville Estate in Hackney.
Designed by architects Karakusevic Carson and David Chipperfield.
Que cessent ces chantages affectifs ; envie de vivre pleinement.
LACPIXEL - 2021
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Wer das Licht scheut, zieht die Markise runter.
the yellow awnings
Those who shy away from the light pull down the awning.
A poorly maintained late 50's - early 60's block of flat's.
I have waited for year's to photograph this building without car's being parked on the driveway's, .. yesterday was my lucky day.
Camera : Fuji X100T
Lens : 23mm Fujinon
(35mm Equivalent in full frame)
LR4286 © Joe O'Malley 2022
Choi Hung Estate (Chinese: 彩虹邨; literally: 'Rainbow Estate') is one of the oldest public housing estates in Hong Kong. Built in 1962-1964, Choi Kung Estate acommodates nearly 42,000 people.
Detail of ground level of Keeling House, a modernist apartment block in Bethnal Green, East London. Designed by Denys Lasdun and completed in 1957.
Post war, Modernist structure.
A target for graffiti and associated defacement.
LR4255 © Joe O'Malley 2022
Norton House, St Peter's Estate, built 1965/67 and at the time of my visit it was litter free !
LR4275 © Joe O'Malley 2022
...but a place to live...
#sliderssunday
A somewhat harsh juxtaposition to the royal beauty, lush- and lightness of my previous photos from the palace and the castle garden in my Charlottenburg Palace series. But believe it or not, this 1970s or '80s brutalism-style apartment house (and similar houses) can be found directly next to the castle grounds.
In the 1970s/'80s, what one might call a huge aberration in urban planning was about to take place: old, still of good substance, buildings from the early 20th century and the late 1900s were supposed to be taken down and replaced by tenement blocks.
This happened in many parts of West Berlin, and it had nothing to do with the reconstruction programme of the 1950s and '60s where simple building complexes were raised to make up for the destruction of WWII.
In the 1970s and '80s, the apartments in these old pre-war houses were often of a lower standard, unrenovated, many with stove heating from huge tiled stoves, and some still with outside toilets on the half landing, shared with the other tenants. Don't get me wrong, in my childhood, I lived in all three types of buildings, then modern 1970s residential complexes in the outskirts of West Berlin, a 1960s reconstruction programme house, and a pre-war house with huge tiled stoves (but luckily with our own bathroom/toilet), and all of it was perfectly OK. But the plans of the 1970s/'80s were about destroying huge areas of grown building substance in the middle of the city, and they would have changed the typical "face" of Berlin forever (as can be seen in those areas where the abovementioned plans were realised).
Luckily, people were not taking it, and resistance against those plans formed, culminating in a squatting movement in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This saved many of these old, grown areas in many parts of the city.
To those of you who actually made it to this point: thank you for reading ;) Now for the technical part: My photo is a bracketing HDR made of three images merged in HDR Efex, and further slid in Color Efex Pro and LR. The LX100 Mark II's dynamic range is a noticeable step up from the Mark I and the raised Megapixel count also offers a welcome boost in detail and crispness.
And now, I also managed to read out the shutter count of my pre-owned new-old LX100II (I first practiced getting into the camera's service mode on my LX100I). It only had 155 releases, so it is indeed "as good as new", and on the two photo walks I've used it since purchasing it in April I've already added about 600 shutter releases. Such a great little camera :)
HSS, everyone, and have a great new week spring/autumn week ahead!
Ping Shek Estate (Chinese: 坪石邨) is a public housing estate in Ping Shan, Kwun Tong District, Kowloon, Hong Kong. There are seven residential blocks in the estate.