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Zenit B (USSR, 1969), Industar 50-2 lens. Kodak Pro 100, C41 (Lennart Westman), Epson V600, VueScan.
Working with the clean architectural elements, I composed this frame to emphasize the dynamic flow of parallel lines. The diagonal arrangement creates a sense of movement, while the contrast between light and dark surfaces adds depth to the geometric pattern.
Looking up at this Toulouse apartment building, I captured the mesmerizing geometry of its modernist architecture. The pink-washed facade, characteristic of the 'Ville Rose', creates a striking contrast with the blue sky, while the repetitive pattern of balconies and windows generates a dizzying perspective that challenges our spatial perception.
This is a huge construction crane reflecting off of a building in downtown Baton Rouge. There seems to be a LOT of construction going on there.
“Please sir! What’s geometry, sir?”
“Why just look around you children. Geometry is everywhere!”
This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a weekly challenge called “Snap Happy”. A different theme chosen by a member of the group each week, and the image is to be posted on the Monday of the week.
This week the theme, “geometry” was chosen by GG, Greenstone Girl.
Geometry is the part of mathematics that studies the size, shapes, positions and dimensions of things. Squares, circles and triangles are some of the simplest shapes in flat geometry. Cubes, cylinders, cones and spheres are simple shapes in solid geometry.
One of the wonderful things that attract people, young and old alike, to Playmobil is their vibrant colour.
Playmobil is a line of toys produced by the Brandstätter Group, headquartered in Zirndorf, Germany. Production began in 1974. Playmobil began to be sold worldwide in 1975, and by 2009, approximately 2.2 billion Playmobil figures had been sold. The signature Playmobil toy is a 7.5 cm tall human figure with a particular smiling face. A wide range of accessories, buildings and vehicles, as well as many sorts of animals, are also part of the Playmobil line. Playmobil toys are produced in themed series of sets as well as individual special figures and playsets. New products and product lines developed by a 50-strong development team are introduced frequently, and older sets are discontinued. Promotional and one-off products are sometimes produced in very limited quantities. These practices have helped give rise to a sizeable community of collectors.
Sunset views of The Gherkin from the 40th floor in the City of London 🇬🇧
I’ve made a solid start to 2026 by finally capturing this iconic scene of sunset behind 30 St Mary Axe, viewed from Duck & Waffle in Salesforce Tower, Central London. I’ve been here a couple of times, and intended to go many more to try to capture this image, but was thwarted either due to poor weather or circumstance.
The Gherkin is one of my favourite skyscrapers — it is unique and instantly recognisable as a London landmark and is easily the most striking structure in the City Cluster, if not all of London. At only 180m tall, it’s not winning any height awards, but it’s sleek aesthetic is unlike any other.
This area of London is fascinating, with hyper-modern steel and glass skyscrapers mere metres from hundreds-of-years-old Elizabethan, Tudor & Medieval buildings. It’s one of my favourite places to stroll around with a camera.
A huge thanks to the staff at @duckandwaffle for securing me this spot before the light faded. The only thing better than the views from up here is the food.
Red aloe flower spikes stand out against their green serrated leaves, their layered blooms forming bold, natural patterns. The contrast of color and texture highlights the plant’s sculptural form during its winter flowering.
bathed in the stark midday sun, the terrace of the penthouse in cala mayor reveals a carefully crafted play of light and shadow. angular shadows stretch across the clean, white tiles, cast by a metal railing that seems both delicate and deliberate in its design. beyond the geometric confinements, the mediterranean unfolds in boundless blue, dotted with the serene glide of sailboats. this is where the construction's rhythm slows, where workers pause in the silhouette of progress, gazing out to where the sea kisses the sky. each frame of the railing offers a different vignette of tranquility—a pause in the narrative of labor, a breath between the toils.
The Mesa, Santa Barbara, California.
Processed in ON1 Photos 10 Enhance and Effects (Dynamic Contrast and Texturizer filters).
This is an air plant (Tillandsia sp.),. The dense covering of silvery scales (trichomes) and the radial arrangement of narrow leaves are characteristic of the genus.
Identification
Most likely a large, xeric (dry-adapted) air plant such as:
* Tillandsia tectorum
* Tillandsia recurvifolia
* Tillandsia plumosa
* A related silver-leaved Tillandsia species
Description
* Epiphytic bromeliad native to the Americas.
* Leaves form a dense rosette.
* Covered with thousands of specialized scales called trichomes.
* Trichomes absorb moisture and nutrients directly from the air.
* The silvery-white appearance comes from these trichomes rather than frost.
* The center forms a natural spiral from which new leaves emerge.
Discussion
This photograph highlights one of the most remarkable features of air plants: their trichome coating. The image almost looks frosted because the trichomes scatter light, producing a soft silver sheen.
Viewed from above, the plant becomes highly abstract:
* Radial symmetry dominates the composition.
* Repeating linear forms create movement.
* Fine textures give a feathered, almost crystalline appearance.
* The dark center acts as a visual anchor from which the leaves radiate outward.
The image resembles:
* A sea urchin
* A starburst
* A snowflake
* A microscopic organism
* A fiber-optic sculpture
Botanical Notes
Air plants belong to the bromeliad family (Bromeliaceae), the same family as the pineapple, Pineapple. Most species grow attached to trees, rocks, or other supports without being parasitic. Their trichomes are an adaptation to environments where water arrives intermittently as fog, dew, or light rain.
Subject: Spider web suspended among evergreen foliage
Scientific classification: Order Araneae (spiders)
Probable web type: Irregular or partially damaged orb web
The photograph shows a delicate network of silk threads stretched between evergreen branches. Its geometry suggests part of an orb web, although the usual circular pattern is not clearly visible.
The closely spaced horizontal strands along the left side form a ladder-like arrangement, while longer diagonal and vertical threads provide structural support. The web could be incomplete, modified, or damaged.
Description
Fine, golden strands of spider silk form an intricate geometric structure against a softly blurred background of dark green foliage.
The web's delicate framework is illuminated by sunlight, making individual threads visible against the shaded vegetation. Small accumulations of debris or possibly trapped insects appear at several intersections.
Bright green evergreen needles occupy the foreground, while circular highlights of white, amber, and muted violet create an abstract background.
The spider itself is not clearly identifiable.
Discussion
Natural history
Spider webs are sophisticated structures combining strength, flexibility, and sensitivity to vibration. Their arrangement varies according to species, vegetation, and available anchoring points.
The irregular geometry here may reflect environmental constraints or damage. The small material clusters could be accumulated debris or prey remains, but the photograph does not provide enough detail to distinguish them.
Photographic assessment
The strongest feature is the contrast between the precise, nearly straight silk strands and the diffuse, organic background.
The shallow depth of field produces pronounced circular bokeh, creating a layered composition. The brightest background highlights compete somewhat with the delicate web, particularly near the upper center and right.
The diagonal strand crossing the lower half provides an effective visual anchor, while the ladder-like structure on the left introduces a repeating geometric pattern.
The photograph operates partly as nature documentation and partly as an abstract study of line, light, and spatial relationships.
People used to cry because they wished they could see the building's original 1910-1911 neoclassical façade, but nowadays they can see online pictures of that anytime they want, so they have stopped crying. Good!
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In downtown Richmond, Indiana, on September 7th, 2025, was the former Second National Bank building at the northwest corner of East Main Street (the National Road) and North 8th Street (U.S. Route 27 and Indiana State Road 227), built in either 1910 or 1911, later occupied by the Peoples Home and Savings Association, which covered it in aluminum and polished exposed-aggregate precast concrete panels in 1964.
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In a wall between two shops along a public sidewalk, this is all I get of the garden behind it. I am intrigued. This is only blocks from my house so I walk by frequently. I was stimulated to revisit this place at various times of day by a challenge from my local photography group (Central Coast Photo Society) that included "windows to the world."
Here's my shiny fidget spinner again reflecting an array of multicolor LED Christmas lights. In addition to spinning on its own axis, the little gizmo is sitting on a turntable at 45 RPM.
The only "post processing" done here is a complete blackening of the already-mostly black-blackground and a small brightness/contrast edit.
f/8, ISO400, 6 sec exp; 50mm.
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The high still-point of the light maze is found in the central room. As we look up we are faced with a gorgeous mandala, reminiscent of the exquisite geometric patterns found in Islamic mosques.
Given the subject matter of H.P. Lovecraft's late collection of stories, "Necronomicon" seems like a reasonable title. If you're not familiar with Lovecraft's work, look him up. You find hours of entertaining reading there.
The fractal elegance of an agave, frozen in time—a testament to the mathematical beauty found in nature’s design.
Built by the Public Works Department for a princely £7,000.00, the Mount Buffalo Chalet was opened in 1910 by the Victorian State Government as Australia’s first ski lodge, and it quickly became a popular destination within the alpine region. Initially leased to private enterprise as a guest house, The Chalet was taken over by Victorian Railways in October 1924. Described as the “last word in luxury”, The Chalet featured large sitting rooms, ample fireplaces, a smoking room, well ventilated rooms of capacious size and hot and cold baths. They offered holiday packages with train services running to Porpunkah railway station and then a connecting Hoys Roadlines service. It was a very popular destination for newlyweds as the perfect place for a honeymoon, and over the years traditions began to emerge such as an elegant dress code within The Chalet, a dinner gong to announce dinner, costume parties and grand balls in The Chalet’s ballroom.
Originally intended to be built in granite, cost blowouts of £3,000.00 meant that instead The Chalet was built of timber. To this day, it is still the largest timber construction in Victoria. It was designed in the fashionable Arts and Crafts style of the period. Reminiscent in style to northern European Chalet architecture, the Mt Buffalo Chalet is built on a coursed random rubble plinth, with a series of hipped and gabled corrugated iron roofs. Originally designed as a symmetrical, gabled roof building, early additions were carried out in a similar style and continued the symmetry of the front facade. The second storey addition to the central wing altered the appearance of the building, however the bungalow character was retained. Slender rough cast render chimneys with tapering tops and random coursed rubble bases, a decorative barge board over the main entry, decorative timber brackets supporting timber shingled gable ends, exposed rafters and double hung, paned windows are all typical architectural details of the Arts and Crafts Movement. It was constructed over a thirty year period during which time extensions, extra wings and outbuildings were added and removed with the changing times and its tourism demands. Improvements were made soon after construction and these included a golf links in 1911, a north wing addition in 1912 and a south wing and billiard room in 1914. Heating and lighting in The Chalet was improved and upgraded in 1919. Between 1921 and 1922, an addition to the south wing increased bedroom and bathroom facilities. The billiard room was moved to the front of the house and the terraced garden, with rubble granite retaining walls, was laid out at the front of The Chalet. The present dining room, the kitchen and billiard room wings were constructed in 1925, and the original dining room was converted to a ballroom, with a stage. Balustrading along the front of the building was removed and large windows inserted to provide uninterrupted views. Between 1937 and 1938 major alterations were made with the extension of the south wing and a second storey added to the central wing of the building. At this time the provisions for two hundred guests at The Chalet was noted as more than equalling the best Melbourne hotels. Internally, some remnants of decoration remain, reflecting various stages of The Chalet’s development, and these can be viewed through The Chalet’s large windows, where several suites, the lounge and the dining room are all set up to display what the accommodation was like. The formal terraced gardens built around the Mount Buffalo Chalet were seen as a civilising image within the context of the wild and relatively harsh Australian landscape. The key built features if the gardens seen today remain intact. The garden’s shape and form remain largely unchanged from when they were created including the stonewalling, terracing, central set of stairs and exposed bedrock.
The Mount Buffalo Chalet is lovingly sometimes referred to as the “Grand Old Lady”. If nothing else, she is a unique survivor of the earliest days of recreational skiing in Australia. It was included on the Victorian Heritage Register in 1992 and is maintained today as a time capsule to show what life was like when tourism was done on a grand scale.
An abstract close-up of warm orange vertical stripes, with soft shadows between each band. The repeating lines create a rhythm that fills the whole frame, and the color glows from edge to edge. It's all pattern and light, with no horizon.
One of the things I love about my inner city neighbourhood is the fact that we have a wonderful diversity in beautiful architectural style of housing. Although housing from the mid 1800s exists in my area, over time it became more suburbanised, particularly with the arrival of the train and tram routes around the turn of the Twentieth Century, and then the extension of these as the Metroland of the 1920s and 30s sprung up. There are many streets that have heritage overlays on them. Therefore, there are some wonderful Art Deco style villas from the 1920s and 1930s that still have their original fences and gates.
This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a weekly challenge called “Snap Happy”. A different theme chosen by a member of the group each week, and the image is to be posted on the Monday of the week.
This week the theme, “geometry” was chosen by GG, Greenstone Girl.
This low Art Deco brick wall with its triangular pinnacle and decorative brick panels and this cast iron gate with its geometric pattern seemed like perfect choices for the theme.
Art Deco is a European style that celebrated the exciting and dynamic aspects of the machine age. It was all about sleekness, sharp lines, and vivid decorative elements like fins, fans, speed lines, portal windows and low relief sculpture. There was also a drive towards the clean lines of geometry in design.
Geometry is the part of mathematics that studies the size, shapes, positions and dimensions of things. Squares, circles and triangles are some of the simplest shapes in flat geometry. Cubes, cylinders, cones and spheres are simple shapes in solid geometry.
This image looks at some attractive geometric detail on the front of a half-timbered cottage on Queen Mary's Drive, Port Sunlight. Each of Nos 16-22 was a four-bedroom residence. This detail on No. 22 is part of a bracket-supported double-jettied gable. The rather cobwebbed pegs visible on the black-painted wooden frames are part of the construction process. The buildings face the Lady Lever Art Gallery.
Designed by James Lomax-Simpson in 1912, and built the following year, it is one of the Domestic Revival (or Old English) designs found throughout the village for which he is best known. Educated at Liverpool University and the son of a friend of of William Lever, he became the head of Lever Brothers architecture department in 1910 and designed several buildings in Port Sunlight including the Bandstand (now demolished), the Residents' Club, the south wing of Lever House, the Duke of York Cottages and houses in Jubilee Crescent, King George's Drive and Windy Bank as well as those in Queen Mary's Drive.
He also designed factories built overseas for Lever Brothers and Unilever House in London (Unilever was created in 1929 when Lever Brothers merged with the Dutch company Margarine Union).
This intricate pavement design at the Montreal Botanical Garden's Chinese Garden showcases a harmonious blend of textures and shapes. Alternating triangular sections of weathered red bricks and hexagonal clusters of smooth, dark river pebbles create a rhythmic geometric mosaic, partially shaded by overhead foliage.
John and Donald Parkinson's 1929 Bullocks Wilshire is the building that taught Los Angeles what Art Deco could be, and this side entrance is a quiet master class in why texture carries the style. The cast stone facade — a buff-toned terrazzo aggregate that imitates limestone but reads warmer in the late afternoon sun — is scored into massive ashlar blocks that frame the entry like a temple pylon. The black granite base grounds it. Everything else is surface incident.
The portal itself is where the building shows its hand. A coffered ceiling in green, terra cotta, and gold radiates a stylized sunburst — Mayan Revival by way of Hollywood, executed in painted plaster and meant to be read from a moving Packard, not a parked Tesla. The pendant lantern, copper gone soft with patina, hangs in front of a copper-framed transom that catches reflected sky and the silhouette of a streetlamp opposite. Flanking the door, two vertical bands of carved cast stone medallions — heraldic shields, geometric rosettes, stepped pyramidal motifs — give the eye somewhere to travel from foot to lintel.
The cracked sidewalk reads as an honest part of the picture. The building was decommissioned as a department store in 1993; Southwestern Law School has occupied it since. Decades of survival, etched in concrete.
Reflections, lines, geometric shapes and patterns in the facades at 6th Ave and 43rd Street, NYC
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A mirrored art installation at the Palm Springs Art Museum becomes an abstract world of repeating reflections. By converting the image to monochrome and removing the surrounding distractions, only the exhibit’s hidden infinity pattern remains
These appear to be land snail shells, most likely tropical arboreal snails in the family Camaenidae or a closely related group. The bold brown-and-black striped pattern and flattened, rounded form are characteristic of several Southeast Asian and Pacific land snails.
The large shell at lower left shows a highly nacreous (mother-of-pearl) interior, indicating the shell is empty and photographed from the underside.
Because the aperture and side profile are not fully visible, a species-level identification is not possible from this image alone.
Confidence: Moderate (family/group level), low for exact species.
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Description
* Shape: Depressed-globose to discoidal spiral shells
* Color: Rich chestnut brown with dark zebra-like striping
* Surface: Smooth, glossy, highly polished appearance
* Pattern: Bands follow the spiral growth lines, creating optical movement around the whorls
* Whorls: Well-defined and tightly coiled
* Interior: Iridescent nacre visible in the overturned shell
The image presents five shells arranged against a light background, emphasizing variations in size, pattern density, and spiral geometry.
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Natural History
Land snails of this type typically:
* Live in humid forests and woodland habitats
* Feed on decaying vegetation, algae, fungi, and plant material
* Are most active during wet conditions
* Produce shells primarily from calcium carbonate
* Display remarkable variation in shell color and banding even within a species
The striped pattern may help break up the shell’s outline among leaf litter, bark, and forest debris.
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Discussion as Art
This image functions almost as a study of spiral mathematics and natural design.
Notable visual elements:
* Repetition of the logarithmic spiral at multiple scales
* Strong contrast between warm browns and the cool white background
* Rhythmic striping that creates a sense of motion
* The iridescent shell introduces a contrasting visual texture
* The arrangement resembles objects floating in space rather than resting on a surface
The photograph explores themes of:
* Growth
* Recursion
* Pattern formation
* Natural geometry
* Variation within repetition
The eye moves naturally from shell to shell, comparing the unique striping while recognizing the shared spiral structure.
Captured by drone over Jarlsø in Tønsberg, this modern waterfront high-rise catches the last warm sunlight of the day while the surrounding fjord remains calm and cold. The still water turns the building into a near-perfect mirror, adding a quiet symmetry to the coastal landscape where urban development meets the Oslofjord shoreline.
Fun fact: Jarlsø was historically an island with industrial activity, but in recent decades it has been transformed into a residential waterfront area connected to the mainland by fill and bridges.
"Do you think Jaison is cute?"
--"Yes Jaison is dreamy. Jaison's tittle is huuuge omg. I am getting hungry for fried eggs."
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In downtown McKeesport, Pennsylvania, on July 1st, 2019, a building at the northeast corner of 5th Avenue and Blackberry Street.
Jaison's was a regional department store chain that was bought out by Charming Shoppes, Inc., the owner of Fashion Bug, in 1983.
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