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Queens, New York City - May 15, 2023: View of the Unisphere, a spherical stainless steel representation of the Earth in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in the borough of Queens in New York City at sunset. The globe was designed by Gilmore D. Clarke as part of his plan for the 1964 New York World's Fair.
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This is a spherical view of St Etheldreda's Chapel in Ely Cathedral, an Anglican cathedral in the city of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. The chapel is a shrine to the Saxon queen Etheldreda who founded a monastery on the site in 673. The present building dates back to 1083, and it was granted cathedral status in 1109. The east end of the cathedral, which contains this chapel, the Presbytery and the High Altar, was completed in 1252.
The cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Ely and a suffragan bishop, the Bishop of Huntingdon. Architecturally it is outstanding both for its scale and stylistic details. Having been built in a monumental Romanesque style, the galilee porch, lady chapel and choir were rebuilt in an exuberant Decorated Gothic style.
I created this spherical panorama by taking 9 frames with a fisheye lens and stitching them together to form a 188 megapixel image that covers the entire 360˚ view, from floor to ceiling. Each frame was taken with 5 bracketed exposures to capture the full dynamic range from the bright windows to the dark corners. I transformed the spherical panorama to the 2D rectangle you see here using stereographic projection.
Ref: en.wikipedia.org
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Softly Softly.
My lack of gardening prowess is rewarded once more with some beautiful specimen dandelions.
If they actually looked like this I'm sure their popularity would soar.
Lit from above in blue and then 20 past and 20 to in red.
... ist die Rosenkugel inmitten unserer Rose "Grande Amore"...
... is the rose ball in the middle of our rose "Grande Amore" ...
The Fernsehturm Berlin (Berlin Television Tower) was the reason for being at the Alexanderplatz but we were too early for our pre-booked tickets to the viewing platform. That's why we discovered the "Rotes Rathaus" and we had some time to look around.
A large steel ball is placed upon the convergence point of some lines that radiate outwards from the centre.
The European bee-eater (Merops apiaster) is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family, Meropidae. It breeds in southern Europe and in parts of north Africa and western Asia. It is strongly migratory, wintering in tropical Africa. This species occurs as a spring overshoot north of its range, with occasional breeding in northwest Europe.
This species, like other bee-eaters, is a richly coloured, slender bird. It has brown and yellow upper parts, whilst the wings are green and the beak is black. It can reach a length of 27–29 cm (10.6–11.4 in), including the two elongated central tail feathers. Sexes are alike. Female tends to have greener rather than gold feathers on shoulders. Non-breeding plumage is much duller and with a blue-green back and no elongated central tail feathers. Juvenile resembles a non-breeding adult, but with less variation in the feather colours. Adults begin to moult in June or July and complete the process by August or September. There is a further moult into breeding plumage in winter in Africa.
These bee-eaters are gregarious—nesting colonially in sandy banks, preferably near river shores, usually at the beginning of May. They make a relatively long tunnel, in which they lay five to eight spherical white eggs around the beginning of June. Both male and female care for the eggs, which they brood for about three weeks. They also feed and roost communally.
During courtship, the male feeds large items to the female while eating the small ones himself. Most males are monogamous, but occasional bigamy has been encountered. Their typical call is a distinctive, mellow, liquid and burry prreee or prruup.
For more information, please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_bee-eater
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L'architecte Antony Gibbon a donné une touche d'élégance à cette cabane douillette, en concevant une escapade hivernale de rêve.
Son projet, Burl Treehouse , s'inscrit dans la mission de Gibbon de marier innovation et durabilité dans des conceptions qui laissent les réflecteurs à leur environnement naturel.
S'inspirant de formes organiques, le concept Burl Treehouse nous rappelle que le design minimaliste n'a pas besoin d'être sobre, mais peut au contraire servir de véhicule à la fantaisie.
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Architect Antony Gibbon has given a stylish twist to the cozy treehouse, conceiving a dreamy winter getaway.
His project, Burl Treehouse, follows Gibbon's mission to marry innovation with sustainability in designs that cede the reflectors to their natural surroundings.
Drawing from organic shapes, the Burl Treehouse concept reminds us that minimalist design doesn't have to be sober, but can instead serve as a vehicle for whimsy.
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Taken in 2016. Reflections in the stainless steel Spherical sculpture - 'Amicale' by sculptor Paul Mount (1922-2009). Made in 2007 and installed outside St Pauls in March 2012.
This spherical panorama was taken in the Presbytery at Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire, England. Architecturally, the cathedral is outstanding both for its scale and stylistic details. Having been built originally in a monumental Romanesque style, the galilee porch, lady chapel and choir were rebuilt in an exuberant Decorated Gothic style. The present building dates back to 1083, and it was granted cathedral status in 1109.
The east end of the cathedral, shown here, was completed in 1252. The Presbytery was built to house the shrine of St Etheldreda, the founder of the original monastery that occupied this site from 673. The shrine attracted pilgrims for centuries until it was destroyed in the Reformation. At the top of the image you can see the ornately carved wooden choir stalls. Above them are the organ pipe console and the 14th century central octagon tower lantern. If you look closely you can also see the finely decorated Victorian ceiling of the nave leading off into the distance beyond the octagon tower.
Following the roof down towards the bottom of the image leads us to the great east window of St Etheldreda's Chapel and, below this, the glowing High Altar. On the right is an example of one of the beautiful Victorian stained glass windows that surround the Presbytery.
Ref: en.wikipedia.org
bert flugelman’s ‘the spheres’, popularly known as ‘the mall’s balls’, and arguably the most well known meeting point in the city, rundle mall, adelaide, south australia
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Having to live all year round in the reed bed, Bearded Tits have an amazing ability to fluff up their feathers, giving an almost spherical appearance, whilst providing heat insulation at the same time.
Taken in Norfolk.
This spherical panorama looks directly up the inside the central tower of Lincoln Cathedral, England, which appears as the dark diamond shape near the centre of the image. Although the building of the cathedral started in 1072, the current central tower dates from the 13th century following the collapse of the original tower in 1237. Between 1307 and 1311 the central tower was raised to its present height of 271 feet (83 m). At this time, a tall lead-encased wooden spire topped the tower but this was blown down in a storm in 1548. With its spire, the tower reputedly reached a height of 525 feet (160 m) which would have made it the world's tallest structure at the time, surpassing the Great Pyramid of Giza, which had held the record for almost 4,000 years.
The superbly carved limestone choir screen, shown bottom left, dates from 1330. It is a marvellous example of Decorated Gothic architecture with crocketed pinnacles and arches with tiny carved animal heads. On the pillars are small carvings of saints. The Puritans knocked the heads off the statues but they were recarved by the Victorians who added bishops' heads. The walls of the screen are covered with carvings of leaves and flowers. Traces of red and blue medieval paint can still be seen on them. In the centre is a wrought iron metal gate which is used by the choir before a service.
Originally there would have been a crucifix above the screen. Now there is a massive wooden pipe organ dating from 1898 with more carved crocketed pinnacles. On either side are gateways leading into the side aisles outside St Hugh's Choir. On the south arch are carvings of a dragon stealing grapes (one of the seven deadly sins). St Michael with his sword is about to kill the dragon. On the opposite side is the body of the dead dragon representing the victory of good over evil.
The £4,675 'Father Willis' organ was originally dedicated on St Hugh's Day, 17 November 1898, before a congregation of 4700 people. It was to be the first British cathedral organ to be blown by electricity, but at the time of its inauguration, Lincoln's power station had not yet entered service, so it was pumped manually by soldiers of the Lincolnshire Regiment.
No changes were made to the organ until 1960, when Harrison and Harrison carried out a complete rebuild at a cost of £14,000. Six new registers were added, but the Willis pipework was left unaltered. The action and blowing equipment were renewed, and a new console provided. A further restoration was undertaken by the same firm in 1998, and the organ was rededicated on 20 November, just over a century after it was first played in public.
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A new tack. I wanted to push myself out of my usual method and bring in raw sources from outside of my own back catalogue and use free images from the internet. Courtesy of Bing I picked a selection of "spheres" in a variety of modelling effects ( those that make the 2D image look 3D, such as shadows and highlights etc ). From there I based my image on them.
In this case I used spheres in the 3 basic, primary colours and manipulated from there. Hence the title.
Image created May 20, 2022
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