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Pavilhão de Portugal
Parque das Nações. Lisbon
[Nikon D800, Nikkor-Fisheye AI 16mm f/2.8, panorama merge]
the contrast between good weather and bad can be so great some days, especially in low evening light. The last suns rays often stay under the advancing clouds till the very last minute. I love these conditions, as the beach just comes alive. Concrete and gold is by Foo Fighters, and is as good a title as any.
Water cascades over concrete aggregate blocks in the Active Pool at the Philip Johnson-designed Fort Worth Water Gardens in the south end of Downtown Fort Worth, Texas.
In the 1970s cities in Germany fell for the credo "concrete is good for you". In my hometown, much of the historically grown was sacrificed for efficiency, and with it the soul many a place once had. Here's my attempt to make it at least look interesting...
Het Stuw- en sluizencomplex Amerongen is een waterstaatkundig kunstwerk in Nederland. Het bestaat uit een stuw en een schutsluis. Later kwam er ook een vistrap bij. Het is gebouwd in de Nederrijn nabij Amerongen volgens de CEMT-klasse Va. Bij dit Stuwcomplex werd in 1988 een waterkrachtcentrale gebouwd met een vermogen van 10 MW.
Het Stuwcomplex Amerongen maakt deel uit van het Stuwenensemble Hagestein / Amerongen / Driel. Het ontwerpen van dit ensemble werd gestart in 1958 in het kader van verbetering waterhuishouding Noord Nederland en bevaarbaarheid Nederrijn. Er is geen relatie met de Deltawerken. In 1960 werd als eerste het Stuw- en sluizencomplex Hagestein opgeleverd. 1965 kwam het Stuw- en sluizencomplex Amerongen gereed. In 1970 werd het Stuw- en sluizencomplex Driel als laatste van dit unieke stuwenensemble opgeleverd.
Despite its long interaction with water, the Netherlands has little potential for hydropower due to its flat topography. The Netherlands has a large resource of moving water in its major rivers but its limited hydraulic head because of little elevation change means that hydropower is a minor component of the country's renewable energy portfolio. A few small hydro plants exist but in total produce less than a tenth of a percent of the Netherlands' electricity.
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Another shot of the basement car park at the University of Melbourne. It is an unusual design, quite contemporary at the time, both in terms of aesthetic as well as design. The car park was used in the filming of Mad Max.
The large (up to 2.5 metres in diameter) sandstone boulders at Red Rock Coulee are concretions - formed undersea, in this case the shallow "Bearpaw Sea" that covered much of the North American interior when the dinosaurs still roamed. Eighty million years old, give or take, they now sit on the Alberta prairie like gigantic, misshapen cow pies.
I wondered what I could do with a fish eye lens here, so when the sun emerged from a cloud bank very late in the evening, I got out the Rokinon 8mm. Keeping the camera level produces a straight horizon; any tilt and there is a pronounced curve. The limitation lies in its extraordinary 180° field of view: if I shifted to the right, the sun would be in my frame; to the left and I have to deal with my own shadow. And the photo op turned out to be brief; I had time for half a dozen shots and then the light faded.
Photographed at Red Rock Coulee Natural Area, Alberta (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2023 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Curves of a concrete foot bridge over the A406 North Circular Road in North West London near Harlesden.