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In the late 1800s London was served by up to 300 000 horses, producing an average of 2 000 000 kg of manure each day. This was referred to as the horse manure crisis. Consequently many houses had boot scrapers outside the front door. This one is a fine, elegant example.
BOAT QUAY – An entertainment F & B Centre that was converted from rows of old trading shophouses by the River front from the past into a tourist attraction. A sharp contrast seen at the Singapore River against the modern skyscrapers of present day Singaapore... from my archives
Another version from a series I made a long while ago. Probably my favorite vantage point of HK central.
IFC1 and IFC2 and BOC and Cheung Kong are visible in the image.
In the days before tarmac sealed roads and horses one's footwear became incredibly dirty. A boot scraper was a common sight outside most buildings including homes and shops.
Here the scraper has been imaginative kg incorporated in the hand rail.
Sky Scraper
I was in The Hague for a business portrait and while I was there anyway I thought why not shoot some more? The conditions were perfect for long exposure architecture shots!
So on top of my list was this location called De Hoftoren, it houses the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
So I grabbed myI #formatt #Hitech IRND 10-stopper and went for a 13 seconds exposure. After taking some shots I the sun suddenly showed from behind the tower and ruined the shot I had in mind. But this happy little accident made for a very interesting shot! What do you think?
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Just posted an shot of this scene using the Mavic drone. It still doesn't compare to the quality of an SLR.
European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, DE, 2022
Arkliukas, pin 0,2 mm, Fomapan 400, HC-110 (Stand Development, 5 ml of developer to 1 l of water, 3h30 @ 20°C)
An 8 minute exposure of the Shard and south bank of the Thames at dusk yesterday.
There wasnt much movement in the clouds so I had to stack my 0.9ND and 'Big Stopper' filters together to get this washed out effect.
The ancient city of Zadar is currently under construction.
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This is one of the tall glass buildings on the North bank in London, near the London Dungeons, I just love the reflected light and sky on the building. Taken on ilford delta 400asa print film I toned it blue in PS!
From the series Fences: I tried to capture the fences on the fields around Hurecourt in several different ways, 2015.
Here the fence pole is splitted into three parts. The pole lookes like three sky scrapers coming high above the grass field.
Hurecourt is a very small viillage with about 55 inhabitants in Haute-Saône, France.
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Nebotičnik building. Ljubljana, Slovenia.
"Nebotičnik (English: the Skyscraper) is a prominent high-rise located in the centre of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and is one of the city's most recognisable landmarks. Its thirteen storeys rise to a height of 70.35 m (231 ft). It was designed by the Slovenian architect Vladimir Šubic for the Pension Institute, the building's investor. Construction began on 19 April 1931 and the building opened on 21 February 1933. It was, upon completion, the tallest building in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and the ninth-tallest high-rise in Europe. It was and would remain for some time the tallest residential building in Europe. [...]
The Nebotičnik building, originally designed as an eight-storey structure, was designed by Vladimir Šubic. [...] Its design is based on the neoclassical and art-deco styles, and is crowned with pilasters on the upper floors. Its design follows the classical tripartite division of tall buildings pioneered by the American architect Louis Sullivan—it is composed of a base designed to interact with the street and pedestrians, a homogeneous shaft, and a crown, topped by a cylindrical colonnade with a mounted flag pole, which was added after the completion of the tower. The façade is interrupted by evenly distributed rectangular windows framed in stone, an accentuated ground level and first floor, and semi-circular windows in the café on the eleventh storey.
The entrance on the ground floor leads to a lobby lined with Karst marble. Upper storeys are accessible by elevator or the spiral stairway at the centre of the building. Two of the elevators are fast and lead visitors to the café on the upper floors, while the third is slower and leads to the residential levels. The stairway terminates at the tenth floor. [...]
Construction of the Nebotičnik building, ordered by the Pension Institute, was controversial. Being the first building to surpass the Baroque silhouette of city's bell towers, some residents of Ljubljana feared it would spoil the skyline, and labelled the building a "freak". [...]"
(Wikipedia)