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aka: The Bean
The sculpture and AT&T Plaza are located on top of Park Grill, between the Chase Promenade and McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink. Constructed between 2004 and 2006, the sculpture is nicknamed "The Bean" because of its bean-like shape. Made up of 168 stainless steel plates welded together, its highly polished exterior has no visible seams. It is 33 by 66 by 42 feet (10 by 20 by 13 m), and weighs 110 short tons (100 t; 98 long tons).
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Even having seen pictures of this before visiting you're somehow not prepared for the scale of it until you walk up on it yourself. Unlike so many other public art projects, this one invites you to come close and touch and as you do so, the seamless surface creates the feeling of walking into a carnival mirror and you feel compelled to reach and touch your reflection. It's amazingly popular and as a result quite difficult to get a shot of without large numbers of people milling around.
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As soon as I noticed a huge dark cloud forming, I knew it was up to me to find the best angle possible and make the most out of it. I took this photo in Infrared using a Hoya R72 so as to get the best tones naturally possible from this scene.
Cloud Monster
Clouds are always interesting to watch, their shape the way they move & the colours at dawn or dusk.This cloud structure in particular was a small storm cell developing into the shape of a creature with its mouth wide open about to take a bite & swallow another smaller cloud to build its strength before it rained havoc on the suburbs below.
The sky tells many stories when clouds are present. A large monochromatic print of a detailed cloud-scape on your wall would lead to such conversations of what your very own interpretation is and your story behind what you see.
Available in various sizes and finishes for you to choose from.
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Looking down Lake Wakatipu after a storm. There are very few sights able to match the drama you get when mixing mountain light and bad weather.
Haven't been feeling too crash hot lately which is why I haven't posted. So apologies to everyone as I felt I was catching up with all of my Flickr Family!
I actually didn't know until Shane returned home from work today that we had had the worst rain ever yesterday and that a lot of the province was flooded with Belfast suffering the worst damage.
Poor brain was in LaLa land again!
This evening, I happened to glance out of the window and saw the most awesome storm clouds so I started taking photos from the front garden then thought, if I didn't dash down to the beach to catch the sunset, I would kick myself.
It was a truly breathtaking sunset tonight and the sky kept changing constantly, one of the best photographic sessions I have had on the beach.
This was one of my first shots and I loved how the chap with his dogs were silhouetted against the sea.
I got rained on, captured a super rainbow, and chatted to other people who were taking photos.
Photographers make for the nicest people!!
So, this is Castlerock beach looking towards Co.Donegal in the Republic of Ireland.
PS. Aside from a crop, straight out of the camera.
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Los Angeles, California.
For the past few years my routine trips to LA to visit my mother have been on United in "economy plus" which gives a bit more legroom. I used to get regular business class upgrades but United started charging both miles and money so I skip them.
I have to have an aisle seat; at my age I can't make it across without using the restroom at least once. This flight was overbooked and after everyone got settled a gate agent came on board and moved me to a remaining business-class seat which was a window but which I gladly took. While getting up to pee mid-flight involved intricate gymnastics to climb over my deeply sleeping row-mate, I did get to do a bit of shooting out the window which I enjoyed doing in years past and missed.
Taking off from LAX on a 6:00 am flight affords some great morning light. Even though the right wing and engine was in my way I knew the Ricoh GR had enough resolution to afford cropping so all I really had to do was get the metering right so the wing and engine didn't affect what I wanted from the clouds and make sure the camera didn't focus on the window.
Arriving just in time for the sunset after a long day of sightseeing.
Incredible views of the Antrim plateau and the bay of Ballygalley.
Only the view and the silence.
حول سحابي واحسب اني وصلته
وهبت هبايبها وشالت سحابي
حلمٍ على غفوة زماني حلمته
ليت الزمان اللي غفا ماصحابي
في غمضةٍ من ليل عمري سرقته
لاشك حظي من عذابي وشى بي
الليل يوم انه صحا بي جرحته
والعمر في مجروح ليلي سرى بي
من وقتي المجروح لجروح وقته
يمشي وحظي بالعثاير مشى بي
لو ان قيدي في يديني كسرته
مير البلا قيد الغرام التوى بي
الله من صوتٍ على الشوق جبته
والله من كلمة غلا في كتابي
اطوح المسحوب مع كل نهته
واسمع على همس الليالي جوابي
يامعشر العشاق قلبي عصرته
قطرات خفاق ٍ من الوجد ذابي
على عشير ٍ بالوفا قد وعدته
لو شبت احبه مثل فتنة شبابي
” تأتي الأفراح المعلقة في السماء لِ تنزل على قلوبنا و تنبت فينا , في الوقت الذي لا نكون مستعدين فيه لاستقبال أي شيء.. ” **
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قال تعالى : (أَلَمْ تَرَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ يُزْجِي سَحَاباً ثُمَّ يُؤَلِّفُ بَيْنَهُ ثُمَّ يَجْعَلُهُ رُكَاماً فَتَرَى الْوَدْقَ يَخْرُجُ مِنْ خِلالِهِ وَيُنَزِّلُ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مِنْ جِبَالٍ فِيهَا مِنْ بَرَدٍ فَيُصِيبُ بِهِ مَنْ يَشَاءُ وَيَصْرِفُهُ عَنْ مَنْ يَشَاءُ يَكَادُ سَنَا بَرْقِهِ يَذْهَبُ بِالْأَبْصَارِ) (النور:43)
يذكر تعالى أنه بقدرته يسوق السحاب أول ما ينشئها وهي ضعيفة ، وهو الإزجاء ( ثم يؤلف بينه ) أي : يجمعه بعد تفرقه ، ( ثم يجعله ركاما ) أي : متراكما ، أي : يركب بعضه بعضا ، ( فترى الودق ) أي المطر ( يخرج من خلاله ) أي : من خلله .
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