Airport's concourses
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New York's iconic Grand Central Concourse is one of the city's most photographed sites. I love this mid-morning scene of people on the move.
A trackside view of Central Terminal and the detached train
concourse. In 1982, the bridge connecting the train concourse
to the terminal was removed to allow taller freight trains needed clearance.
The Black Diamond is an extension to the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was drawn by the Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects in 1993 and stood completed in 1999. For more information, visit The Black Diamond.
Incredibly, although I have lived in Copenhagen all my life, I have never visited this architectural gem, which I think is a fitting term for its name. The shots were taken handheld from the bridge at the top level of the building's concourse. I wanted to freeze all motion as much as possible but also get as much as possible in focus so I went for a higher ISO. In hindsight I think I went overboard with the ISO setting and hence the shutter speed but still, the shots did come out ok I think. I have experimented with a few versions of the two different shots. I can't quite decide which ones i like the most, but I am leaning towards the B&W ones.
What do you think?
One more thing: I tried to use a polarizer to reduce the glare from the glass but when I did so I got a weird blue-ish effect on the windows to the outside. Could this be because they have some sort of coating to keep out heat / keep in heat?
The so-called 'Moscow Concourse' at Gants Hill station, designed by Charles Holden and inspired by the original station designs of the Moscow Metro, which the London Underground had recommended for the Soviet system in the 1930s. Gants Hill opened to passengers on 14 December 1947 as part of the Central Line extension programme.
Photos at the London Transport Museum show that the uplighters and seats running down the centre of the concourse were not present originally.
100 Adelaide Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1928, Architects: Baldwin and Greene
Artists: J.E.H. MacDonald, T. MacDonald
Baldwin and Greene commissioned the Concourse decorations from J.E.H. MacDonald and his son Thoreau. MacDonald senior was a painter with the Group of Seven, an accomplished commercial artist and a teacher at the Ontario College of Art. The Group of Seven depicted the city on canvas and brought their touch to many built projects.
The mosaics are loaded with thrills, vivid polychromatic depictions of machine and nature. Above the main door is a benevolent, beaming expression of natural and cosmic order -Plato cut generously with a Tarot deck, finessed into a highly visible niche.
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The Concourse is a post-modern high-rise commercial and residential building. It took me some time to fully appreciate the building and to grab some descent shots of it. At first I thought it looked like a prison.
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... at the dreaded Chicago O'Hare airport. I had a little extra time between connections (Better than running thru airports).
I love car shows, but I need to slow down and find out more about each cars. It’s not like they are going anywhere.
Seven fill colours plus two levels of edge and shape detection, one green one red. Own software for fill colours and Adobe Capture for edge and shape detection.
A view out of one of the windows on Concourse D at the Atlanta airport. This one is just a straightforward composition study. Oh, and did I mention the layer masks? ;-)
Structure #2
This time it’s a man-made structure – the concourse at King’s Cross station.
This photo was the silver lining to the clouds of a cancelled train and closed ticket office (due to yet another rail strike).
The almost empty concourse is a very unusual sight. But, we are living in unusual times.
P104-4902 Taken at: King's Cross Station, London
Welcome to the Atomic Age! The snack dome at the abandoned Burlingame Drive In.
Shot September 2001. Torn down 2002. About 8-minutes under the full moon, lit with red-gelled strobe.
You know I can't go through O'Hare without taking a shot (or 3 for an HDR). The TSA guy was walking too fast in this one... #386 on Explore.
In the early 1960s, Vancouver architect Arthur Erickson designed an open space, partly covered, as a place to mingle and debate, including a podium for anyone to speak to whoever cared to listen. Graduations are also held in this space. To the right is SFU’s Library—originally only as high as the roof above the concourse. In the 1970s, as the university grew, 2 more storeys were added, though not in a totally complimentary way, but offered great views of the sprawling Fraser Valley and Washington state, the ocean and Vancouver below Burnaby Mountain. To the left of the concourse are the theatre, bookstore, and pub at the SUB (student union building). Through the open space, in the background, is the Rotunda under which students originally proceeded up the stairs from bussing up the mountain to emerge onto this plaza. While the university has added bright red patio furniture to the open air spaces, I chose to edit this photo in monochrome to emphasize the grey concrete that dominates the university’s architecture.
On the left foreground is the new CityGate Residences. There are several prime offices, malls and Residences in Beach Road area.