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It was spring break in my college town when I did this senior session. This was taken on a fire escape at a fraternity on campus. Had the boys been in town I think there might have been a ruckus!
Rooftops of Jerusalem, Israel.
Notice how the setting sun is reflected on the Dome of the Rock, creating a shape of the Cross
Photo: Noam Chen for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism.
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An East Village rooftop on the Lower East Side in Manhattan, New York, offers a great view of famous buildings in downtown and midtown New York City. The lit buildings from left to right are the ConEd Building at 14th St and Irving Place, (and then to the right of the elevator shaft) the Metropolitan Life Building and New York Life Building on Madison Square, the Empire State Building on 5th Ave at 34th St, the Condé Nast Building on Times Square, and the Bank of America Building on Bryant Park at 6th Ave and 42nd St.
Rooftop Gardens are often an effective measure of bringing back nature to the expansive concrete jungles of cities such as Taipei. Common consensus amongst elites in Taiwan is that Rooftop Gardens are beneficial to buildings and the enviroment by offsetting emmissions.
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From 1974 to 1990, the Taipei City Government provided free soil, fertilizer, plant material and reference books to residents who applied to construct rooftop gardens. They are the first step in sustainable development for buildings as well as providing asthetics to contrast against the plain, dull concrete jungle.
Many people use their rooftop gardens for agricultural means, this hotel grew a variety of herbs and vegetables that where used in the restraurant.
For the Rooftop Walk in Rotterdam a 30 metres high temporary bridge over the Coolsingel has been made. I connects the buidling of the Beurs with the rooftop of the Bijenkorf department store.
In need of some good light and colour I've re-worked this shot from last year in HDR for a bit of fun. It's been a dull Easter weather wise so far and I'm still waiting for the Sigma to be returned from repair.
The Plaza Hotel, formerly the Hilton Hotel, is a landmark skyscraper located at 106 Mills Avenue in El Paso, Texas. The hotel was constructed on the site of the Sheldon Hotel, which burned in 1929. The Sheldon served as the unofficial headquarters for many of the participants in the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920's) from both sides of the border. In the fall of 1929, Conrad Hilton began construction. Nineteen days later the stock market crashed and the Great Depression began, yet construction continued. On November 30, 1930, Hilton's first highrise hotel was opened. At 239 feet (73 m) in height it surpassed the O. T. Bassett Tower to become the tallest building in El Paso; it is still the city's third tallest building. Designed by Trost & Trost, the Plaza is an Art Deco styled 19-story steel-framed building with setbacks at the 16th and 17th floors. It is faced with brown brick and concrete and crowned with a copper-sheathed pyramid. The exterior remains largely unaltered from its original form. Elizabeth Taylor briefly lived in the penthouse of the hotel after she married Conrad’s son Nicky. The hotel was sold in 1963 at which time the name changed to the Plaza Hotel.
(From Wikipedia)
This reminded me of a postcard. Taken from the rooftop of the US Postal Service Downtown Station.
Interesting rooftops at Monroe Street near Market Street, Two Bridges, Manhattan
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Ritz-Carlton as seen from the broad walk at Las Olas beach. I am intrigued by the palm trees on the rooftop - I bet it must be a beautiful view from up there.
Shot at f/11, 1/160 second, ISO 100.
Re-posting since the entire album was deleted accidentally!
A friend loaned me his bachelor pad on the outskirts of Kathmandu while he was back in his home country. His place is on the very top floor of a house similar to the one in the foreground of this photo, with expansive views of the city.
A heavy monsoon rain darkened the sky and brought out the bright colours on some of the buildings, which is when I took this panorama from the balcony.
The Asian Art Museum in Seoul is located at the top of the road to Bukchon Hanok Village. On the front gate, you will see a picture of a dragon, which the founder and director Gwon Young-du personally drew on the old wall tiles of the building. Inside, there are three other compounds and are related to Confucianism, Buddhism, and virtue. With its location at the peak of Bukchon, the second-story terrace offers a spectacular view of the entire city, just unfortunate it was cold and overcast on this day.
Olympus OM-D EM-1 with 12-40mm f/2.8 PRO
I live in a high-rise in nyc and am lucky enough to have a rooftop deck so I decided to go up there and take some night shots of the area. One of the toys I've been playing with for the last couple of weeks is the CamRanger and I wanted to see if it made a difference with night photography.
What I found was that by itself it doesn't make taking the pictures any easier, or better, really. But the ability to review the images on my iPad definitely improved the experience. I was able to find myself a comfy chair to sit in once I had the camera set up and relax while I took my shots.
Because of the larger screen I was able to get a good inspection of the image after each shot and decide if I wanted to make changes in timings or other settings.
This is taken downtown near the World Trade Memorial Site at the intersection of West Street and Murray Street. There is always a good amount of traffic flowing through here so I was able to get some really nice light trails. For this one, I waited for the light to change and let the cars make the turn so I could have some nice curved trails here. I like the mix of colors within the lights as much as the shapes. These types of shots are fun because you just don't know what you're going to end up with.
Rooftop party was so fun.
Location: The 1920s Berlin Project SIM
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Paris, France
It seems that there is a style of graffiti that is the same all over the world. I still can't read it.
From a shoot in the summer.
Rooftop Man never made a big hit in DC comics. His special ability to crouch on rooftops being singularly useless when it came to fighting crime. He does look good in photos though.
Strobist Info: Single 580EX II with wide angle diffuser flipped down, camera right, pointed at female model, just for fill. The shadows were harsh. Male model is in direct sunlight. Flash triggered with RF-602.
This is a view from the only public window of Chichester's Novium museum. The Novium is a museum in Chichester, West Sussex, southern England. The name comes from the Roman name for the city, Noviomagus Reginorum.
The museum, designed by the architect Keith Williams following an architectural design competition managed by RIBA Competitions, has an area of 1,300 sq m which is approximately 2.4 times the size of the previous museum in Little London. The building is divided into three floors each of which will contain a gallery for exhibition. It contains a research and learning room as well as a collection store for the social history collection. The museum is built directly over the top of the Chichester's Roman Bath House complex which are displayed in the ground floor gallery.
The museum has over 350,000 objects of geological, archaeological and social historic interest. The social history and geological collections is made up of some 50,000 objects which are housed within the new building, whilst the archaeological collection is contained in a purpose built store within the Discovery Centre located at Fishbourne Roman Palace.
The museum was opened on 8 July 2012.
The most promenent building in this view is Chichester Cathedral. Construction of the cathedral probably started in the 1070's. A number of disasters including subsidence, partial collapse and lightning strikes have affected the Cathedral over the years. The most serious incident occurred in 1861 when the cathedral spire collapsed in on itself. The new spire, designed by George Gilbert Scott, was rebuilt over a 5-year period and is slightly taller than the previous spire at 85 metres tall. The Cathedral is now home to a pair of peregrine falcons, who have been nesting in the cathedral turrets since 2001.
To the right of the Cathedral is the Chichester cathedral bell tower. Chichester is the last remaining city in the UK to have a Cathedral with a detached medieval bell tower. The tower stands 36 metres high and 11 metres square at the base. The octagonal bell chamber is home to 8 bells dating from the 16th to 18th centuries. An hour bell was added in 1877 and is named 'Great Walter'. They require a team of 15 bell ringers to climb 84 steps every Sunday and Wednesday to ring the bells in a call tp prayer.
On the far right can be seen part of the church of St Peter the Great which was constructed in 1850 and consecrated in 1852, it's designer, Richard Carpenter (1812-1855) also worked on Chichester Cathedral. At one time St Peter the Great was the 'mother church' of the city.
As a result of being overshadowed by the Cathedral, a dwindling congregation and the need for major repairs, the church fell into disuse by 1979. Since that date the church has been used as an antiques market, shopping centre and tourist information point. In 1997 it was converted into a pub, 'The Slurping Toad', is currently known as Wests Bar and Lounge.