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Things That Make No Sense are just that, assorted bits of amusement for nothing more than visual curiosity and my idea of what I call art or abstract art. Now a series of sorts, the series is interrupted with photographs that do make sense, or at least make sense to me. You can like them or not but they make me smile.
As seen in the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. the stairway was pretty cool and I tried to get a decent shot but I just wasn't happy with the single shot. I wanted to use the shot and before I knew it this emerged on my computer. Maybe with a bit of inspiration from a couple of my favorite artists, perhaps??? Yup - that worked for me and I knew I had another picture that made no sense. As an added bonus I'm pretty sure any iguanas can navigate the eyes, go up the stairs and get their grapefruit - hi Jana. :)
Happy Slider Sunday - HSS
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Or: When the half is the whole. This is what the escalator from my previous image (in the first comment) really looks like when seen from the KaDeWe's ground floor and looking up to the (amazingly dirty) glass roof of the 7th floor which houses the more buffet-style restaurant Wintergarten. My suggestion: If you happen to be at the KaDeWe and are hungry for a snack, go to the 6th floor.
I've been back to the moving staircase this Friday, this time with the Laowa C-Dreamer 7.5mm/F2 prime lens and the GRIII mounted with the wide-angle adapter GW-4 which expands the GRIII's native 28mm to 21mm. Initially, I'd wanted to take the 7-14 wide-angle zoom lens, but it doesn't handle very bright light sources all too well, and there are plenty of such lights at the KaDeWe, while the Laowa creates nice light stars. So the latter was the "safe" choice (regarding the photo output), plus it's super tiny, so it was also the safer choice regarding noticeability. Once again, it was no problem at all to take photos there, but I got noticed by an employee, and for a very short moment I was afraid that his charming remark "You've got a nice camera!" would be followed by "But you aren't allowed to take photos here." But that didn't happen. He smiled and quickly moved up the escalator. Phew.
And why am I telling you all of this when the image you see is one taken at my previous photo walk and with the LX100? Well, you will see photos taken with the Laowa and the GRIII sometime in the future, and – once again – I realised that it is almost impossible to replicate a photo even when you are in the exact same spot as the last time, and especially so when different focal lengths are involved. I also wanted to show you what I started with to create the kaleidoscoped image and how simple and straightforward it was to achieve the kaleidoscope effect – at least this time: Take the single image, copy it to a second layer in PS, flip one layer horizontally, and combine both layers to a single image. Done.
The SOOC RAW file was in landscape mode, and at first, I wanted to upload this single image in its original orientation but then decided to rotate it to the left so it's easier for you to see how the kaleidoscoped image came to be. In addition to this, this image looks much lighter and airier in portrait mode, while in landscape format the scene looks a lot denser and sort of heavy, oppressed even – which is a little what it feels like to ride this moving staircase up and down because the opposed single escalators on each floor are built in a rather compact way, and sometimes, you can even touch the underside of the escalator going to the next floor – someone did, most likely a child or a teenager, because on my Friday visit I noticed a cat sticker on the underside of one of the escalators ;)
I've taken all the LX100 photos of the escalator in 16:9 (it's the only camera where I ever change the image ratio for shooting, because it has a convenient toggle on top of its fixed lens which allows you to quickly choose between 1:1, 3:2, the native 4:3, or 16:9), and since 16:9 images look very "slim", especially in portrait mode, I've added the white frame to make it look a little "beefier". I've also added a little more colour punch to this version so it won't simply look like the previous image "cut in half".
Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone!
It could be an art work from Escher (you might want to check out this website: www.mcescher.com/ ).
I took this shot in the Groninger Museum in the beautiful city of Groningen where I have been last weekend. I have turned the photograph upside down. Try to figure it out ;-)
Explored March 13, 2023
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The new staircase at the KaDeWe, kaleidoscoped for Sliders Sunday.
The KaDeWe (Kaufhaus des Westens = Department Store of the West) in Berlin's borough of Schöneberg is Germany's most renowned department store. With a selling space of more than 60,000 sq / 650,000 square feet, it is also Europe's second-largest department store (after Harrod's in London). Today, it attracts about 50,000 visitors every day. In 1905, merchant and businessman Adolf Jandorf commissioned architect Emil Schaudt to design a luxury department store on Tauentzienstraße at the heart of (West) Berlin. Tauentzienstraße is one of Berlin's major shopping streets and is, although, of course, a street in its own right, what one could call a direct "extension" of the famous Kudamm/Kurfürstendamm boulevard. The KaDeWe was opened on 27 March 1907. Ever since, it has seen numerous extensions, refurbishments, and owner changes. One of its major attractions is the food hall on the sixth floor.
I haven't been to the KaDeWe in ages. But recently, I stumbled upon a photo of an interesting-looking staircase/escalator here on Flickr – and to my great surprise that photo had been taken at the KaDeWe. So last week, my mom (magrit k.) and I decided to visit the store, equipped with our cameras, and have a look at the new staircase. What I can say is that this "Escheresque" staircase is very interesting indeed and that it's a great photo subject as well.
It was a short visit, however, because all we really did was photograph said staircase. The KaDeWe has changed so substantially, especially in the past 10 to 15 years, that it really isn't "our store" anymore. What I remember as an airy, generous, spacious place with a nice "vibe" to it, has turned into an almost smallish "monster store" packed with expensiveness. Maybe I'm a little unfair; I will soon revisit the KaDeWe because last week I'd only brought the little LX100 along (I wasn't sure if people with "big" cameras would be accepted there or if we'd get in trouble with security staff, but no one really cared about our photographic antics at the staircase), so I will return with my OM-1 and the wide-angle zoom. And maybe I will take some time to explore the "new KaDeWe". You will definitely see more of this staircase ("un-kaleidoscoped" photos, for instance) in the future :)
Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone!
A piece of M. C. Escher "M.C. Escher". Warhol added. Sacrilegious maybe. www.flickr.com/photos/jr_mcmellen_photograghy/48852727423...
M.C. Escher exposition ("Escher - Other World") at the Kunstmuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Design (2023): a Belgian architect named Pieterjan Gijs.
The Hague town hall, The Netherlands.
Designed (1986): Richard Meier.
To celebrate M.C. Escher's 125th birthday, studio VOLLAERSZWART (Madje Vollaers and Pascal Zwart) created this mural, inspired by Meier's building and Escher's works.
I mentioned in my last post that I wanted to show an image of the inside of the newer atrium area of the Liverpool Central Library. I'll post another that I took looking up but this was one I took from the top level looking down. It's such an interesting space. I've given it a much darker vibe than the actual light you'd experience in this space during daylight hours but I thought it suited the shot. And yes I know, the first thing that is going to pop into everyone's mind is M.C. Escher. It's certainly what came into mine when I saw this composition.
The architect duo Gijs van Vaerenbergh will design a maze (NL: "Dwaaltuin") for the University of Leuven, Belgium, for their 600th birthday. This is a model, scale 1:20.
"Escher - Other World" expo at the Kunstmuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands.
A bit of fun, trying out several of the new updates in Photoshop 23 and Firefly
All work done in Photoshop Beta23
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The ceiling of the staircase in the Louvre museum was so intriguing. It reminded me of the drawings by mathematician and artist M.C. Escher. Using a monochrome conversion of the image I succeeded to create this drawing-effect. A game of shadows and lights. In honour of the master himself.
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The Saint-Clément aqueduct in Montpellier - a city in the center of the coastal region of southern France - was built in the 18th century, and was once used to bring the city's water from the spring of Saint-Clément. The aqueduct ends with an ornate water tower, which is located at the end of the Promenade du Peyrou.
This picture was taken at the water tower (one of the tower's Romanesque columns can be seen reflected in the water). The leaves floating in the water reminded me of Escher's lithograph "Three Worlds" which, amongst other things, depicts autumn leaves floating on the surface of a pond.
M.C. Escher exposition ("Escher - Other World") at the Kunstmuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Design (2023): a Belgian architect named Pieterjan Gijs.
Waiting for M.C. Escher at Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, Oceanville, NJ, USA
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Coloration "Belvedere" Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898 - 1972)
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Please forgive the somewhat lame title, but I couldn't think of anything better in a hurry.
The concrete interior of the Deutsche Dom lends itself to a centred composition, but I have already done that at an earlier visit (please check my album, if you like). Not that I didn't take centred photos this time as well, but I also thought it was time to try something different.
As for the processing (exposure bracketing of three images combined in HDR Efex and then transferred to B&W in Silver Efex), I went for something bright and airy at first, but found it lacked depth and detail, at least in this off-centre composition, so I went for a more dramatic editing.
The Deutsche Dom (also known as Neue Kirche: "New Church") is a tower, not a "church" or cathedral as the name suggests, and nowadays, it houses a permanent (and free) exhibition on the history of German parliamentarism. Unlike the interior of its architectural sibling at Gendarmenmarkt, the Französischer Dom (French Cathedral), its interior was reconstructed (due to World War II damages) in a modern way, while the French Cathedral's interior has just been reconstructed true to the original.
Happy Donnerstagsmonochrom, everyone!
In the Apple Store, Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France
I am convinced that MC Escher got inspired by this staircase when he visited this Apple Store in Paris.
More about MC Escher on Wikipedia
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Prachtige expositie van M.C. Escher in het Kunstmuseum in Den Haag.
Stap in de wereld van Escher. Dat kan letterlijk in Escher – Andere wereld in Kunstmuseum Den Haag. In deze tentoonstelling beleef je het werk van Escher als nooit tevoren. Zijn beroemde prenten, waarin optische illusies, onmogelijke architectuur, reflectie en natuur centraal staan, worden hier gecombineerd met spectaculaire installaties van het Belgische kunstenaarsduo Gijs Van Vaerenbergh. De wisselwerking tussen Eschers prenten en de ruimtelijke installaties van Gijs Van Vaerenbergh creëert zowel een unieke beleving als een uitdieping van Eschers werk.
M.C. Escher exposition ("Escher - Other World") at the Kunstmuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Design (2023): a Belgian architect named Pieterjan Gijs.
Messed up by me using GIMP.
Princes Square is a five-floor, 10,450 square-meter shopping center, with a vaulted glass roof, on Buchanan Street in Glasgow.
Initially, the name caught my attention: is it "Princes Square" (a square that has multiple princes) or "Prince's Square" (a square that belongs to a prince)? The square was originally an open courtyard with stables. The Buchanan Street side of the courtyard was closed off by the creation of The Prince of Wales Buildings in the 1840s. Thus, the current Princes Square, opened in 1988 and extended in 1999, should probably be called Prince's Square.
After the name, it was the interior of the shopping center that caught my eye. The overlapping moving staircases reminded me of an Escher lithograph. Inspired by Escher, I took this photograph with the idea of calling one of his impossible architectures to mind: I then promptly forgot about it, only to discover it again recently.
This time, although the original photograph was taken in May, the red and gold colors of the building seemed to me to conjure up the spirit of Christmas.
So, one photograph, three stories.
Remember the "paradigm shift" that was Windows 3? Pre-1990 Personal Computers, or PCs as they were known, had crude, kilobyte saving, single color, graphical interfaces. However, come Windows 3, all of that changed. By the time Windows 3.1 was launched (1992) users were able to customize the background of their screens using a variety of 16 color bitmapped 'tiles'.
This post-processed photo was inspired by one of those 'tiles': a 200 x 150 pixel file named leaves.bmp. This 15 kB file contained a simple bitmapped image of autumn leaves that, like a Escher lithograph, fitted together to create the impression of a seamless forest floor of 16 vibrant colors.
This image is an excursion off the "Patios for All" image with a little B&W processing and some wavy action applied. My tribute to the master, M. C. Escher.
For Sliders Sunday - HSS!
One small segment of the deep four-sided Chand Baori well near Abhaneri, built in the 8th century. A local saying is that you can never take the same steps twice. Seeing is believing.
Many of these stepwells, including Chand Baori, served multiple purposes, including drawing water and religious or ceremonial activities. But in addition, the communal aspects are important also, as people met and rested in the shadow at the bottom of the stepwell, where temperatures are several degrees below the often sweltering heat above.
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