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A lineup of reclining chairs for tired shoppers to rest beside a juice bar at the Harbour Town shopping centre. From this side view, those blue bits look like a spinal vertebrae.
Multiple valleys come together in a tangle of rocky ridges sculpted by ice, water, and wind. The small vegetated plateau on the right was not glaciated during the Pleistocene, but shows subtle banding associated with freeze-thaw sorting of rocks by their size which occurred during the ice age. Note the vegetation has already taken on fall color- it's a short growing season above 12,000'.
Mystic Island Lake, shown in a recent post, is at the head of the valley on the right, with Eagle Peak the high point near the center of the frame. In the distance are a myriad of peaks in the southern Sawatch Range.
There is a lot less snow visible in this landscape than usual, even for this time of year. A low snow winter and warm summer melted many of the snowfields that often last year-round. Thankfully a wet summer from active monsoonal flow kept the fire danger low.
Found in an abandoned clinic in Bavaria, Germany. This beautiful staircase was part of the Restaurant.
Volvo B5TLs/Wrightbus Gemini SG281 and SG317 are seen on Abbey Street Lower on the Spine Routes H2 and H1
The Oculus in NYC, part of the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in Lower Manhattan. Designed by famed Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and located within walking distance of the World Trade Center, the $4 billion building is the most expensive train stop in the world.
This beast is the underside of an upright high low chiropractic table with cervical drop (I know!). It's what I get for carrying 20 pounds of camera gear around with me all the time.
This image was the inspiration for the previous two images in my photostream: Spinal Cord and Spinal Tap.
Actually this this is the $3 million dollars sculpture "Seven Magic Mountains', by Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone. Located on Las Vegas Boulevard, but about 15-20 miles south of the strip. For me it begs a performance of Stonehenge, the legendary song my the equally legendary, and punctual band Spinal Tap.
Not the shot I was expecting to get and not 100% sure on it. I quite like the subtle spinal look and the way sea shadow almost looks like a tail on the end of the "spine". I only had one chance at this shot due to the tide, I might have another go at this tomorrow if it's not raining as the tide should be a bit kinder.
Shot with d7100 and Tamron 28-75mm
Cheers
Gary
A quick sketch of a building in progress - I love how an ordinary mesh covering a construction site Frost Fence is enhanced with the architect's vision.
The sketch evokes a skeleton, a spine - but it also flows, floats upwards towards the sky, towards the other concrete peaks in my neighborhood.
Construction is proceeding briskly - whereas a few months ago this was just a hole in the ground, now there is a foundation of this striking building, and a few stories are already going up.
time is running out!!
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D.