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The Pantheon is one of the best surviving buildings from Ancient Rome, it has the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world. The oculus itself is 8.7m across.
In the image I have tried to show the bluesy that was present on the day of my visit, the shaft of light on the inside of the dome and the patterns on the ceiling, not an easy balancing act especially when you consider the hundreds of tourists and members of the congregation in the church at the time.
Light from the oculus of the dome of the National Gallery of Art reflected on one of the giant pillars in the rotunda.
C.E. Kempe's 1898 upper east window in Govan Parish Church. Christ with the Seven Lamps of the Church surrounded by various Scottish and Other Saints.
Trying out my new Laowa 15mm shift lens. It's noticeably wider than my Laowa 17mm shift lens and the light stars are much nicer with the 15mm.
my favourite tool for making black and white images is Snapseed: as well as being able to filter on any colour, it has lots of presets for monochrome styles, tools to manipulate grain, and more
Even at night, it was like standing in a giant soft box. Well lit, but not a lot of direct light. So many intersecting lines and compositions to be made.
Image with my Hasselblad 500cm.
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Pantheon, Roma
La tradizione vuole che nel Pantheon non penetri la pioggia per il cosiddetto "effetto camino". A quanto pare è una leggenda legata al passato: le moltissime candele accese nella chiesa, producevano una corrente d'aria calda che saliva verso l'alto che, incontrandosi con la pioggia, la nebulizzava annullando pertanto la percezione dell'entrata dell'acqua.
Designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and composed of a train station with a large and open mezzanine under the National September 11 Memorial plaza, the Oculus opened in March 2016. Calatrava said that the Oculus resembles a bird being released from a child's hand. The roof was originally designed to mechanically open to increase light and ventilation to the enclosed space. However, Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic for The New York Times, referred to the structure as "a kitsch stegosaurus"!
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Even though I had seen many photographs from inside the Quadracci Pavilion I was still not prepared for its initial impact. Calatrava successfully designed the building to fit into its site along Lake Michigan. After walking through the entryway you experience this feeling like your floating above the lake in a futuristic ocean (or lake) liner or hovercraft.
The Oculus at the new World Trade Center transportation hub. This is an amazing structure, an amazing space. Much like Grand Central a couple of miles to the north, this will still be considered one of America's great public spaces for a century to come, and beyond.
The coffered dome has a central oculus as the main source of natural light.
The Pantheon ("temple] of all the gods") is a former Roman temple and, since AD 609, a Catholic church (Basilica Santa Maria ad Martyres or Basilica of St. Mary and the Martyrs) in Rome, Italy. It was built on the site of an earlier temple commissioned by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa during the reign of Augustus (27 BC – AD 14); then, after the original burnt down, the present building was ordered by the emperor Hadrian and probably dedicated c. AD 126.