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i always look up and 'send my love'
...all shots taken on sat 8th, walking along the south bank. a lot of these banners were draped over the colonnade, all with different dittos. cropped
A striking looking building, incorporating differently reflecting glass and ripply floorplates that that change how its neighbours interact. Cleverer than it looks, and it looks great.
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Wind Machine
2002
This is one of Vollis Simpson's Whirligigs. It is located in the park at the NC Museum of Art in Raleigh.
"Simpson’s fame came near the end of his life. He was born in 1919 to a farming family with 12 children. As a boy, he helped his father supplement the family income by moving houses. After retiring at 65, he started tinkering around with his collection of odd parts. Using some of the same rigs he’d developed for moving houses, Simpson began constructing enormous windmills in his yard. The Whirligigs incorporate highway and road signs, HVAC fans, bicycles, ceiling fans, mirrors, stovepipes, I-beams, pipe, textile mill rollers, ball bearings, aluminum sheeting, various woods, steel rods, rings, pans, milkshake mixers and many more such materials form the support and moving parts.
In 2010, a plan was announced to create the Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park in Historic Downtown Wilson, NC. Simpson died in 2013 at 94, but not before seeing the first of his creations installed in the park that bears his name."
It was windy, so I had to lean against the pole. The sky kept changing. I added a Lightroom HDR preset and added the borders in Photoshop.
You can see some other shots from the park on my flickr site: www.flickr.com/photos/needlepointernc/
i liked the overhead tanks. one really felt like one was underwater. the only weird thing was that for many of the species, especially in the otherwise cool river exhibit, the water should have been much murkier than it was. i felt especially bad for the electrosensing critters, who were neatly displayed in nice murk-free water that, unless the aquarium was really clever about their electrolyte balance, presumably rendered the critters more-or-less blind.
I meant to take a picture of the hundred birds that landed in the tulip tree. It's so tall, the birds were almost indistinguishable from the little buds on the branches. The birds swooped in all at once, made a racket for half an hour, and then took off again the moment my shutter clicked.
Signs of spring. Happy new year.