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This was just an experiment which turned out to look pretty cool. Here, the Allium wasn’t flourishing yet and hence I focused on the center of the flower head, where I turned it into black and white to enhance the exploding look. I hope you like it and I wish you good start into the new week!
Hmmm it's so hot the slabs are exploding in the Grassmarket.
And if you are interested - here's the story...
news.scotsman.com/scotland/Exploding-Grassmarket-slabs-ju...
Exploding Grassmarket slabs just couldn't stand the heat
Date: 11 June 2009
By MARK McLAUGHLIN
IT has taken almost a month of investigation by engineers but the mystery of the exploding Grassmarket pavement has finally been solved – it couldn't stand the heat.
Two slabs newly laid as part of the multi-million-pound revamp of the area cracked last month, with everything from a gas blast to an electrical fault being blamed.
Now experts have ruled that "thermal expansion", in the sweltering May heat of 16
was to blame for the Caithness slabs breaking.
They are confident, however, the problem was caused by a fault in two particular slabs and that the piazza should survive the summer unscathed.
City centre councillor Joanna Mowat said: "My sources tell me that it wasn't a mythological creature or some such thing that caused it. The answer was firmly in the realms of engineering.
"The council got an expert to look at it and he found that it wasn't an explosion underneath, but that it was due to thermal expansion.
"The heat causes the slabs to expand and the reason these two slabs had come up was because they were slightly flawed.
"I did initially find it hard to believe that this expansion could just affect two slabs, but I was assured that they were faulty.
"My immediate concern was that we were going to have stones erupting throughout the Grassmarket, but the project manager who assigned the expert to look at the slabs said it was isolated to these two stones."
A city council spokesman said that no other slabs in the area appeared to be affected.
He said: "(Engineers] did identify that there was something wrong with the thickness of the slabs. As you would expect, these slabs come under the influence of external forces, and as long as all of the slabs are of an even depth and width they can bear it, but if the slab is faulty and can't absorb that level of force it will 'pop'.
"They have identified these particular slabs as the only ones that are faulty.
"The contractors have accepted the liability for this and are making the necessary repairs at no extra cost to the council."
He added: "The contractor is currently on site carrying out the necessary remedial work. The area will reopen on Friday."
The area had been fenced off for the last month, to the annoyance of local traders who hoped that the workmen had gone for good when the £5 million revamp was completed in December.
Susie Christie, manager of Costume Ha Ha, whose shop stands close to where the slabs erupted, said the constant work has affected her trade.
She said: "Our recent footfall figures show that we were 40 per cent down last month, compared to the same period the year before.
"It's not been helped by the fact that there is currently refurbishment working going on in the building above us, and we're obscured by scaffolding.
"The work on the Grassmarket just seems never ending."
Torrance Madrona Marsh
Nikon Z6 converted to 720nm Infrared
Post Processed in LR, PS, and Silver Efex Pro
The next set of pieces in the pool are here in the center and I was really taken by the selection and color combination. There were the creamy oranges mixed with the yellows and greens. It's almost as though these pieces exploded out of the water to bloom in the sun. Enjoy!
Lens: 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6
Exposure: f/22
Shutter Speed: 1/25
ISO: 100
Auto Bracket: +2 0 –2
About the series
This series of shots were taken on 10-22-2010 at Cheekwood Botanical Garden. Dale Chihuly, world renowned glass artist, was having a garden exhibition where he installs pieces into the gardens to enhance the appeal of both the gardens and his work. This is the fifth Chihuly exhibition that I've gone to and the fourth that I've been able to shoot. I really enjoy the mixture of the glass and the gardens, and it makes for great photo opportunities.
"I love to juxtapose the manmade and the natural to sort of make people wonder, is it manmade or did it come from nature? That's a very important part of my work."
Dale Chihuly
The lovely Miss C is chilling out on a tree hanging over the water in the Vondelpark, in the best city in the world :))
Today was a perfect Spring day...until about an hour ago, the blue sky got cloudy and it rained hailed a bit but I guess that was only to protect our hearts&minds from exploding from an overdose of all the sheer joy&fun of spending such a lovely day in such a lovely city, lucky us :D
Have a great Good Friday, enjoy yourself before somebody else does it for you, hehe ;-))
I'm well outside my comfort zone today.....
I nearly deleted this shot when I downloaded Sunday night's pictures to the laptop. But there was something about it that I found appealing. It's a shot of the sun setting over Earlswood Lake and I was trying out that 'zoomy' thing where you shift the zoom as you're shooting. Maybe someone can tell me if there's a better, more technical term I should be using :))
Part of the common and the ministract sets.
Hiya everyone!
Here's another upload from yesterday's shoot. I probably didn't get around telling you all that the idea of using an umbrella initially came to me because it was a pretty glum and cloudy day yesterday.It wasn't cold, as you'd expect winter to be; just a rather dull looking average day. Anyway, this idea, once again, has been inspired by Boy Wonder. I don't know why, but some of my recent uploads have leaned a bit towards the type of work he does. (Let me take this opportunity to tell you, he's absolutely brilliant!). I sure hope I was able to do him some justice =)
ps: I know I should have found a more open space to do this, but there's no meadow or usable field here in my part of the town, and this take was pretty impulsive. So i had to make do with my roof top =)
went to my studios rooftop and found this beautiful sunset, unusual during this season, just when I pointed my camera; the crows started flying all over. Probably they felt threatened.....Thanks to the crows...ha ha!
Front page EXPLORED!
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An bright & beautful explosion of red & blue. Have a great day my friends, may it be full of colour & joy =)
Taken for this week Vic's Pic Challenge
Autumn/ fall- leaves
Another experiment with the zoom
Explore Front Page- thanks for all comments
the result of a shot gun, coke bottle and a chair. looks pretty nifty few little edits in lightroom.
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I've not done any actual camera rotation photography in a while so tonight's evening walkabout with a camera soon put that right.
Shot in one photographic exposure, this is a cool architectural water feature located outside Sheffield's main railway station rotated 8 ways.
still having frosty -7 mornings with frost fairies leaving their trails. Many thanks for dropping by flickr friends and any feedback to grow from is appreciated.
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