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This is a shot straight up through the Lift shaft. The viewing tower is no longer in use, as it apparently needs repairs........for the last eight months or more. Sheesh!
This is it From another angle
For We're Here! who are visiting "Straight Up" today.
Our family vacation takes us now to a ski resort. They are such odd places to visit off season. The lifts are silent and still. There are people, but not the masses crowding parking lots and lodges with piles of equipment.
This also fits a nice memory of my Dad. He took my brother and I skiing at a very young age. He was an avid skier back then and participated heavily in one of the local ski patrols. That meant free passes for us and many many weekends on the slopes.
Those are good memories. The early mornings, breakfast with Dad at a diner, and first tracks of the day.
This is a shot of the Lloyds Building in the City of London taken on a London day trip last Monday 2nd March. On the left is the Willis Building. It was a very windy day though mainly sunny. While walking to this location I got a good buffeting as the wind was channelled between the skyscrapers. Setting up a tripod would have been pointless so I used a handy flat topped post to put the Camera on pointing up. I used a wireless shutter release. I used a 10 stop BW Neutral Density filter resulting in 57 seconds and plenty of cloud movement with the wind strength.
The picture was taken with a Sony A700 with a Sigma 10-20 wide angle lens at 10mm.
This was my first try at low key architecture long exposure mono and there was some quite involved processing using RAW, Topaz filters and Photoshop levels and curves.
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My first attempt to photograph the milky way, that is right above my garden at the moment, and with a clear night - for a change -.
I have a secret fascination with cloudscapes... well perhaps not really so secret. This was the sky directly above work as I was leaving at the end of one day earlier this year. If I stare at it long enough it almost feels like I am staring straight down at something as opposed to straight up.
Taken with my Nikon FM2n and Fuji Velvia 50.
This photo made Explore on April 3, 2007. Highest #123
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Shot using the XA2's self timer, placing the camera on the ground facing up. Didn't realise quite how loud and long the beeps are, felt quite self conscious at the time, but am pleased with the result.
Olympus XA2 + Agfa Precisa + xpro
Went to get an image of city hall in London but was not happy with the light around it, but found this wonderful building behind it which I really liked, I have not been doing much Landscape work as I am without transport for a while, so am unable to get to remote locations so I have changed to doing Street & Architecture which I am enjoying.
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One of those images that REALLY needs to be seen BIG!!!.
This is actually looking straight up inside a Willow Tree. Yummy sunsetting light...
I think this Double Crested Cormorant was trying to outdo the White Pelican, I think the only one not happy was the guy with the back now in the shape of the letter Z.
La "Porta delle Polveri" durante l'ora blu. Essa fu costruita nell'XI secolo e fu una delle tredici porte che circordavano la vecchia città. Il nome deriva dall'uso di conservare la polvere da sparo durante il XVII secolo.
The "Powder Tower" during blue hour. It was built in the XI century, and it was one of the 13 gates that would allow entrance to the old town of Prague. The tower was used to store gunpowder during the XVII century, hence the name.
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In behind College Park, corner of Bay and College.
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The RBC Towers rises above the dust of Bay Street like a fantastic fortress of gold.
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This image has had a fair amount of fiddling. The part on the left started out life as a straight shot straight up of the much photographed Northern and Shell Building on Lower Thames Street, in London. This is also locally known as the Rubik Cube Building and is ideal for this kind of treatment. It was then flipped and both parts copied into a new image and combined. A shot of an edited star scene I had taken earlier was copied into the middle using a selection and layer mask.
Additional editing included Topaz Detail and Unsharp Mask 46 amount and 46 radius for extra clarity.
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Boulevard of Light - Amsterdam Light Festival
Artists: ACT lighting design: Koert Vermeulen (lighting design), Marco Viñals Bassols (set design)
Odeaubois: Pol Marchandise & Mostafa Hadi (construction)
Location: pontoon in the Amstel in front of the Hermitage
OVO is a seven meter high construction shaped like an egg. Through the interplay of light (in 22 minutes, 724 dfferent light positions are demonstrated), sound and water (reflections in the water and fog that dances in the wind), it all feels like a supernatural experience. The spectator becomes part of the artwork, when he enters the gracious, majestic structure, OVO symbolizes birth, transformation and perfection.
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Kunstenaars: ACT lighting design: Koert Vermeulen (lighting design), Marco Viñals Bassols (set design)
Odeaubois: Pol Marchandise & Mostafa Hadi (Beeldhouwers)
Locatie: ponton in de Amstel voor de Hermitage
OVO is een zeven meter hoge constructie in de vorm van een ei. Door het spel van licht (in 22 minuten komen er 724 verschillende lichtstanden voorbij), geluid en water (reflecties in het water en mist die danst in de wind) lijkt het een bovennatuurlijke ervaring. De toeschouwer wordt deel van het kunstwerk wanneer hij de gracieuze, prachtige structuur binnen gaat. OVO symboliseert geboorte, transformatie en perfectie.
My StandUP style pose symbolizing an arrow and doing what is righteous even when you feel darkness has consumed you there's light all around waiting to be found.
This is a single 30 second exposure straight from the camera at f5.6 with no Photoshopping.
My friend Derek was showing me how to focus more on detail and angles, this was the outcome :) This was obviously straight up and I was happy with how the lines came out and the bolts were even with them. That is a natural sky too! Thanks everyone, this one made Explore!
Vessel is a structure and landmark which was built as part of the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Construction began in April 2017; it opened on March 15, 2019.
Designed by the British designer Thomas Heatherwick, the elaborate honeycomb-like structure rises 16 stories and consists of 154 flights of stairs, 2,500 steps, and 80 landings for visitors to climb. Vessel is the main feature of the 5-acre (2.0 ha) Hudson Yards Public Square. Funded by Hudson Yards developer Related Companies, its final cost is expected to be $200 million.
The structure's name is a working title, noted in the TKA abbreviation, which means "Temporarily Known As". The structure owners have asked the public to give it a formal name and have a website devoted to naming it. One of the most discussed names on social media was "The Shawarma", after the cone-shaped Middle Eastern meat popular on street carts.
Vessel is a 16-story, 150-foot-high (46 m) structure of connected staircases between the buildings of Hudson Yards, located in the 5-acre (2.0 ha) Hudson Yards Public Square. Designed by Thomas Heatherwick, Vessel has 154 flights, 2,500 steps, and 80 landings that stretch from its 50-foot-wide (15 m) base to its 150-foot-wide (46 m) apex (making it as tall as it is wide at its apex), with the total length of the stairs exceeding 1 mile (1.6 km). The structure also has ramps and an elevator to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Stephen Ross, the CEO of Hudson Yards' developer Related Companies, said that its unusual shape was intended to make the structure stand out like a "12-month Christmas tree." The copper-clad steps, arranged like a jungle gym and modeled after Indian stepwells, can hold 1,000 people at a time. Heatherwick said that he intends visitors to climb and explore the structure as if it were a jungle gym. At the top of the structure, visitors can see the Hudson River.
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Vessel was designed in concert with the Hudson Yards Public Square, designed by Thomas Woltz from Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects. The attached 5-acre (2 ha) public square has 28,000 plants and 225 trees, located on the platform upon which Hudson Yards is built. The plaza's southern side is to have a canopy of trees. The southeast entrance is to contain a fountain as well. A "'seasonally expressive' entry garden" is meant for the 34th Street–Hudson Yards station's subway entrance at 33rd Street. The plaza is also designed to connect the High Line promenade.
Although Vessel had originally been slated to cost $75 million, the projections were later revised to between $150 and $200 million. Heatherwick attributed the greatly increased price tag to the complexity of building the steel pieces. The pieces of Vessel were assembled in the commune of Monfalcone in Italy. Ships transported the sections of the sculpture to Hudson River docks.
It was planned that "Vessel" would be the structure's temporary name during construction, and that a permanent name would be determined later. After Vessel opened, Hudson Yards asked the public to give it a formal name, creating a website devoted to that effect.
Critical reception
The sculpture has received acclaim and criticism. Fortune called Vessel "Manhattan's answer to the Eiffel Tower", a sentiment echoed by CNN. Elle Decor compared Vessel to an M. C. Escher drawing. The New York Times said the sculpture, while a "stairway to nowhere" in the utilitarian sense, served as an "exclamation point" to the northern terminus of the High Line Park. Gothamist called Vessel "a bold addition to the city's landscape." Speaking about the structure's design process, Heatherwick said, "We had to think of what could act as the role of a landmarker. Something that could help give character and particularity to the space." Several commentators have called the structure the Giant Shawarma.
Public Art Fund president Susan Freedman liked the renderings for Vessel but called it "a leap of faith in terms of scale." She said there might be too much demand for Vessel, especially considering the structure's proximity to the High Line.
Other critics reviewed Vessel negatively. New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman called Vessel's exterior "gaudy" and criticized Hudson Yards more generally as a "gated community" that lacked real public space. CityLab's Feargus O'Sullivan called Vessel, along with Heatherwick's other numerous billionaire-funded developments and architectural projects, "a gaudy monument to being only ever-so-slightly free." Some have contrasted it negatively to Cloud Gate, also known as the Bean, in Millennium Park, Chicago, calling the Vessel a "piece of junk" and an "eyesore". Blair Kamin of the Chicago Tribune called it "willful and contrived".
Vessel has been criticized over associated photo policies at the time of its opening. Hudson Yards, the owner of Vessel, claims ownership of all pictures and videos taken of Vessel, and reserves the right to use any photos or videos taken for commercial purposes without paying royalty fees. This privileged use of photos and videos by Hudson Yards, a private company, has been criticized because Hudson Yards has benefited from $4.5 billion in tax revenue. After criticism emerged about Vessel's copyright policy, Hudson Yards modified the policy so visitors would have ownership of photos of Vessel.
The Viper Demo Team pilot reaches for the sky with the F-16’s afterburner.
Seen at the 2024 Thunder Over Michigan airshow. #ThunderOverMI
One of the surprise highlights of July's PDX Nightowls photo walk was when we were invited to come in and photograph the sculptures at DODECAH . Special thanks to the fine folks at DODECAH who were extremely generous with their time and willingness to spin their sculptures. i4s5922,27,23 - Happy Sliders Sunday!
Looking straight up inside New Street Square, London.
Taken whilst waiting for m+b to finish work. Slightly self-conscious using the XA2's timer function (with it's loud BEEEEEEEEP) in such a financial area, but other than a few odd looks, didn't get any security hassles)
Olympus XA2 + self timer + Lomography 200ASA slide film + xpro
OVO
Boulevard of Light - Amsterdam Light Festival
Artists: ACT lighting design: Koert Vermeulen (lighting design), Marco Viñals Bassols (set design)
Odeaubois: Pol Marchandise & Mostafa Hadi (construction)
Location: pontoon in the Amstel in front of the Hermitage
OVO is a seven meter high construction shaped like an egg. Through the interplay of light (in 22 minutes, 724 dfferent light positions are demonstrated), sound and water (reflections in the water and fog that dances in the wind), it all feels like a supernatural experience. The spectator becomes part of the artwork, when he enters the gracious, majestic structure, OVO symbolizes birth, transformation and perfection.
***
Kunstenaars: ACT lighting design: Koert Vermeulen (lighting design), Marco Viñals Bassols (set design)
Odeaubois: Pol Marchandise & Mostafa Hadi (Beeldhouwers)
Locatie: ponton in de Amstel voor de Hermitage
OVO is een zeven meter hoge constructie in de vorm van een ei. Door het spel van licht (in 22 minuten komen er 724 verschillende lichtstanden voorbij), geluid en water (reflecties in het water en mist die danst in de wind) lijkt het een bovennatuurlijke ervaring. De toeschouwer wordt deel van het kunstwerk wanneer hij de gracieuze, prachtige structuur binnen gaat. OVO symboliseert geboorte, transformatie en perfectie.