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The iconic Boatsheds, one of the most photographed subjects on the Bellarine Peninsula. Always a different mood and conditions and never fails to impress.
A balmy day at Sorrento and warm enough to go knee deep in the water for this shot. Taken with Nisi 10 stop GND Filter & 27 sec exposure. Boats slightly blurred but I can live with that!
Sunrise at Clifton Springs Marina and this solitary fisherman is hoping to catch something for dinner.
Macro of a tiny glass Nativity scene, taken for Macro Mondays' theme "Lit by Candlelight". Josef and the angel are less than 3 cm.
Taken on tripod, stacked 2 photos.
Title is a David McWilliams song.
Back to long exposure architectural shots.
Technical info:
ND110 - 10 stops.
f/22
ISO100
12 mm
211s (3min31s) exposure
Software:
Lightroom 2.0
PS CS4 - Silver Efex Pro
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You don't always need the whole building to feel the impact of a great architectural era. Sometimes, a narrow vertical slice is all it takes to tell the story. This is a beautiful piece of Streamline Moderne, tucked somewhere on a San Francisco street, and the detail work is pure 1930s elegance. The central pilaster is the anchor. It's framed by a recessed, cream-colored border, and inside that border is a repeating, stylized scallop or shell motif. The shells alternate neatly along the length of the column, separated by vertical bands painted in a warm terracotta-orange and a soft, pale gold.
At the very top, the column finishes with a graceful, fan-like burst of white plaster—a classic Art Deco finial that softens the sharp, geometric lines. Tucked into the middle of the pilaster is a narrow, modern window, its clean, dark glass grid catching the warm, golden light. The surrounding wall is a plain, pale-cream stucco that lets the decorative detail do all the talking.
But the real magic here is in the light. The sun is hitting this facade from a steep, late-afternoon angle, casting a sharp, diagonal shadow across the left side of the frame. It gives the whole shot depth, warmth, and a wonderful sense of time and place. It's a quiet, elegant portrait of a style that still defines so much of San Francisco's character.
235 West Van Buren condominium tower in downtown Chicago, Illinois, located in the Loop near the Chicago River and Willis Tower. Contemporary residential high-rise architecture designed by Perkins and Will featuring dark glass facade design, exposed concrete framing, and balconies that create a distinctive grid-like exterior. The 46-story condominium building was developed by CMK Companies and completed in 2010. - © 2026 David Oppenheimer - Performance Impressions photography archives performanceimpressions.com
7 More London Riverside. Pretty brutal design, I like the dark look of the glass. Situated next to London City Hall.
I didn't see the name of this work, which is located in a different building at LACMA. I also have some video, which I will post later on.
It’s easy to walk right past a detail like this on a busy street, but the light caught it just right, and it’s worth a moment of attention. This vertical ornament is a classic piece of Art Deco design, mounted on a pale, grey-beige stucco wall. The center of the composition is made up of five pairs of stylized, white circular motifs—each one shaped like a daisy or a sunburst, with a raised center and scalloped, petal-like edges. Running straight down through the middle of these white circles is a narrow, alternating band of terracotta-orange and greenish-grey sections, all trimmed in pale gold. It gives the whole column a rhythmic, almost mechanical feel.
At the very top, the column finishes with a domed, pale-gold finial. At the bottom, separate from the main stack, sits a single white floral rosette with a carved, star-shaped orange center. Flanking the central column on both sides are panels of deeply ribbed, corrugated plaster. Their rigid, vertical lines provide a strong, industrial contrast to the soft, organic curves of the flowers. Above the ornament, two large, multi-paned windows with white frames reflect the sky and the surrounding street.
The warm, golden light hitting the facade from the left casts a sharp, diagonal shadow across the right window and the wall, turning a flat, everyday surface into a brief, elegant study of light, geometry, and quiet craftsmanship.
West 57th Street | Solow Building 30/04/2015 13h46
The concave vertical slope of its facade makes this skyscraper on the West 57th Street very special. Seen from below while on the upperdeck of an Open Tour bus.
Solow Building
The Solow Building, located at 9 West 57th Street, is a Manhattan skyscraper designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill's Gordon Bunshaft and built in 1974. It is located just west of Fifth Avenue, sandwiched between the 57th and 58th Street, next to such prominent buildings as the Bergdorf Goodman department store and the Plaza Hotel. Consisting of 50 stories and 210 m, the building's only competitor by height in the neighborhood is the GM Building, located one block north and east. Floors above the 23rd floor offer a virtually unobstructed view of northern Manhattan and a complete view of Central Park and The Plaza Hotel.
One of the notable aesthetic attributes of the building is the concave vertical slope of its north and south facades, on 57th and 58th Street. This is similar to another of Bunshaft's creations, the W. R. Grace Building, which is no coincidence, as he had used the initial, rejected façade design for the Solow Building in his design for the Grace Building.
The name of the building is attributed to Sheldon Solow, a real estate mogul who invested in the construction of the building.
The building is owned by billionaire Sheldon Solow. In the 1960s, he commissioned architect Gordon Bunshaft to build the tower. The building is privately managed and tenancy is held by Mr. Solow's estate.
Location: 9 West 57th Street, New York City, New York
Owner: Sheldon Solow
Heigth | Floor count: 210 meters | 50
Completed: 1974
Architect: Gordon Bunshaft - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
[ Source + more: Wikipedia - Solow Building ]
I have just bought a B + W 10 stop ND filter. I just took this today with really rough sea. It did have a slight colour cast but it was very easy to correct in ACR. I am quite pleased with it as a first attempt. I downloaded a calculator table from the internet but this didn't seem that accuarate and I got the exposure in the end by trial and error. Looking forward to using this filter again!
Please click on image to view on Black!
Csak leszedtem a koszt és 50%-os layeren auto contrast, a színek eredetiek.
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I just removed the dust and made a new layer for auto-contrast with 50% opacity. The colors are SOOC.
külön köszönet Kikasznak a lehetőségért
Estudo de luz e composição para produto.
Fotografia, produção, edição e direção: Asael C Silva
Locação: Estúdio doméstico com Speedlight e luz mista
Nocturne 5
Karen LaMonte (American, born 1967)
Made in the Czech Republic, Železný Brod, 2015
Mold-melted glass, grit-blasted, acid-polished
This statue is part of a series of sculptures in dark glass representing Karen LeMonte's contemplation of the idea of night. You can still see the impression of a body, once there but now gone, in the empty dress. LaMonte was inspired by nocturnes for solo piano written by 19th-century composers, and by the nocturne painting by James Abbot McNeill Whistler.
You don’t look at the Watergate; you experience it. The structure does not sit politely on its site—it sweeps, curving in a long, undulating serpentine wave that snakes along the Potomac River. Italian architect Luigi Moretti was not interested in building a simple block of apartments. He was building an urban landmark.
The most striking feature is the relentless, repetitive rhythm of the white concrete balconies. They wrap around the entire facade like the curves of a massive ocean liner, their vertical white railings forming a sharp, graphic stripe against the dark, recessed glass behind them. The balconies do not stack straight up; they step and stagger slightly, creating a layered, sculptural effect that catches the light differently with every hour of the day.
The large, reflective glass panels are a deliberate modernist gesture, mirroring the grey, overcast D.C. sky and the bare winter trees below. The top of the complex is crowned with smooth, white, drum-like mechanical structures, giving the building a slightly futuristic, almost sci-fi silhouette. The Watergate was designed to project power, wealth, and certainty—a building built to last, built to dominate, and built to make you feel small as you approach it.