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The "Luchtsingel" which can be translated as "sky canal" is an elevated pedestrian bridge in the centre of Rotterdam. It is entirely crowd-funded and is made out of wood with bright yellow accents.
To make this a more symmetrical picture, one side is mirrored onto the other and most of the matching irregularities in the woodwork have been erased
Made with Sony NEX-6 and NEX 16mm f/2.8
NIK SilverEfex and On1 Effects 10
Bit of HDR, some cut, flip and paste, a bit of displacement map work .. and what do we get: Glasgow University Library collapsing into Noye's Fludde under the weight of literary bullsh*t on its gazillion shelves.
That's right .. I was bored .. again!
Waddya mean: "Why didn't I go into the Library and read a book if I was bored?" Because, my dears, I am a complete Philistine .. and, anyway, they don't stock Jeremy Clarkson .. and they've never forgiven me for using the Complete Works of W. Shakespeare Esq. as a door stop. All they've got is books with very long words (like marmalade and floccinauccinihilipilification) which I can't understand because I are only a Engineer.
Woke up with awesome light shining outside our hotel window. Hurried out to cross the street and shoot. As light slowly fades away, we took the chance to travel about 15mins on the road to this lake. It was the first time for me to shoot a sunrise on two different locations. Light on this side of the world is longer than our local sunrise. Plenty of time for us to rest a bit and enjoy the scenery.
In the north of the island Texel, just behind the Wadden sea dike, lies the brent geese reserve Zeeburg. The view from the top of the dike is impressive. The symmetry of the landscape, miraculously mirrored by the clouds, even more so.
In het noorden van Texel ligt achter de Waddenzeedijk het rotganzenreservaat Zeeburg. Het uitzicht vanaf de dijk is indrukwekkend. De symmetrie van het landschap, toevalligerwijs versterkt door de wolkenformaties, is nog indrukwekkender.
An infinity pool would be a lot better here :)
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Deep dusk on Killarney Lake. Bowen Island BC. I wish I had my Nikon, but this will do. A magic moment in a magnificent December day. Note the floating log at the bottom.
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Images of impossible symmetric architecture. Inspired by modern cities, I’ve created these impossible symmetric images of buildings hanging in the sky. Soporific & exciting architecture alike, become intricate structures of concrete and glass. Sometimes they turn out looking like a spaceship, sometimes the image is completely abstract. I leave it too your own imagination to find the spaceship amongst them.
The symmetrical city.
Cambio de tercio, vamos a variar un poco... un paseo buscando simetrías, rincones o edificios con algún encanto en la ciudad de Lisboa (Portugal). Ya subiré alguna más de este estilo.
Reflections are fascinating especially when the water is so still...however, there was a little ripple on the left that made the trees look pixelated like in a video game. But you know what? That's just part of the Matrix! Near Swedesburg, IA.
The Salford Quays lift bridge or Salford Quays Millennium footbridge is a 95-metre long vertical lift bridge bridge spanning the Manchester Ship Canal in Salford, Greater Manchester, England. The bridge, which was completed in 2000, is near the terminus of the ship canal at the old Manchester Docks. It links Salford Quays to MediaCityUK and has a lift of 18 metres, allowing large watercraft to pass beneath.
The bridge features prominently on the backdrop for the BBC North West Tonight television news programme, which also shows The Lowry and MediaCityUK.
Design
Designed by Carlos Fernandez Casado, the bridge has a main span of 95 metres in a Lohse Arch,[1] with the peaks of the twin arches connected at the crown. These brace one another, resulting in greater structural rigidity. The deck is connected to the arches with vertical members, which splay outwards at an increasing angle towards the centre of the span. The sweeping arches are decorated with coloured LED lighting, while the deck is illuminated with white downlighting. Pedestrians are protected from the prevailing winds by glass sides, coloured blue at foot level and tapering in, following the angle of the arches.
The lifting design utilises four white tubular steel space truss towers with concrete counterweights mounted internally on red carriers, although early plans envisioned spherical counterweights[citation needed]. These are suspended by cable over large grey wheels, mounted above decorative triangular maintenance platforms. The counterbalancing system allows the bridge to complete a raising or lowering through its 18 metre lift in less than three minutes. The outermost truss sections of each tower curve away from the main bridge at the base, tapering to a point, and each tower is topped with two decorative blue lights. The four towers have uplighting from the maintenance platform, although this feature has not been operational for some time.
The bridge has a 'sister' by the same designer, located in Plentzia, north of Bilbao, Spain. While slightly larger than its Salford Quays counterpart, spanning 108 metres over the Plentzia River, it does not lift and has no towers.
Construction
The bridge was built by Christiani & Nielsen as the general contractor, who coordinated a 'float-in' installation of the operable span with freight transport specialist Econofreight. The movable span was winched into place between the four support towers from a barge. The approximate cost was USA $7.5 million at the time of construction.
The deck is an orthotropic design, which is structurally more efficient than a concrete deck on top of steel deck beams. Orthotropic steel deck systems have begun to dominate movable spans in Europe because smaller towers and lifting mechanisms are required, using less energy to move them. Similar systems are used for welded steel ships and canal lock doors.
The lifting system itself was designed and installed by Bennett Associates, also responsible for the tilting mechanism on the Gateshead Millennium Bridge. The system normally operates from the electrical grid, although it has a diesel backup system in case of a power failure.
Operation
The control tower is on the Salford Quays side of the ship canal, from where the pedestrian barriers and lifting mechanism are operated. Except for Royal Navy visits and dredging, most vessels entering the Salford Quays turning circle are pleasure craft, and are most commonly seen between April and October, when Mersey Ferries operate the Manchester Ship Canal Cruise service from Liverpool to Salford Quays.
On the left we can see a surprise visitor to Westbury in November 1987, class 108 twin set B960 on a Weymouth to Bristol working. Formed of 53602 + 54197, these had been Yorkshire vehicles from new, but reallocated to Bristol just a few months earlier.
The BRCW class 118 DMU on the right had been a Devon / Cornwall unit from new, but was reallocated to Cardiff in 1986 where it gained the Red Dragon branding. It was moved to Bristol a month before this photo was taken, the set number changing to B480 when it was seen at Westbury on a Bristol to Weymouth service, the numbers were W51312 + W59470 + W51327.
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London Bridge Underground Station, London, England
I haven't uploaded a London Underground image for a while so here one which I hope you will enjoy. This was taken at London Bridge Underground station, one of the top stations on the network for photography, there just seems so much to photograph here at this station.
I have been mulling over how to process this one since I took it and had processed it several ways prior to this final one, non that I was happy with. I finally did this cross-colour process which felt 'right' and complimented the image subject well. There was one thing that was annoying me was the barrel distortion of the lens. I think this contributed to alot of the reason why the post processing wasn't working for this image in previous attempts so for this one I corrected the distortion first before any editing and it worked. Doing it this was meant my eyes were not distracted by flaws in the image.
I will hopefully get out next week with my camera to get some new photo material, hopefully the weather will be kind to me next week :-).
Photo Details
Sony Alpha SLT-A77
Sigma 10-20mm 1:4-5.6 EX DC HSM
RAW
f/8
10mm
ISO400
1/10s exposure
Software Used
Lightroom 4.3
PTLens
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The Underground station is between Borough and Bank on the Northern Line, and between Southwark and Bermondsey on the Jubilee Line. The station is the sixth busiest on the Underground network and is the only station on the London Underground network with 'London' in its name (while the NR termini are named, for instance 'London Waterloo' the Underground station is simply named 'Waterloo').
Originally Northern Line trains ran to a terminus at King William Street bypassing London Bridge, but the construction of a new station at Bank to provide greater capacity and allow northward extension required a new tunnel alignment, and provided the opportunity for a station at London Bridge. The station entrance was originally at Three Castles House on the corner of London Bridge Street and Railway Approach, but has since been moved to Borough High Street and Tooley Street. The Northern Line platforms were rebuilt during the late 1990s to increase the platform and circulation areas in preparation for the opening of the Jubilee Line.
The Northern Line station opened on 25 February 1900 as part of the City & South London Railway's (C&SLR's) revised route from Borough to Bank and Moorgate. The Jubilee Line station opened on 7 October 1999 as part of the Jubilee Line Extension, although trains had been running through non-stop from the previous month. To enable the Jubilee Line to be constructed, months of major engineering works to relocate buried services in the surrounding streets had to be undertaken. A new ticket hall was created in the arches under the main-line station, providing improved interchange. During excavations a variety of Roman remains were found, including pottery and fragments of mosaics; some of these are now on display in the station. The Jubilee Line platforms have been fitted with platform edge doors in common with all other stations on the extension.
There are two platforms on each line and two main sets of escalators to and from the Tooley Street ticket hall. All four platforms are directly accessible from the Borough High Street entrance/exit.
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One thing I loved about Ferndale, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit is how wonderfully eclectic the neighbourhood and people are, a fusion of pastel colours on every street corner. And I always love a symmetrical shadow.
ENG: On my summer holiday this year, I took a trip with my family to the medieval city of Ulm in the southern German state of Baden-Württemberg. On this day trip, we not only visited the imposing Ulm Minster, a centuries-old Gothic church, or the "most crooked hotel in the world", which was even listed in the Guinness Book of Records in 1997. But also a photographic highlight for me, the Ulm Central Library in the historic city centre. The glass city library in its ultra-modern pyramid shape from 1998 may look like a foreign body in the midst of the half-timbered houses not far from the river Donau, but for lovers of stairs it houses an impressive red staircase with two lifts in futuristic style.
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GER: In meinem diesjährigen Sommerurlaub habe ich mit meiner Familie einen Abstecher in die mittelalterliche Stadt Ulm im süddeutschen Bundesland Baden-Württemberg gemacht. Bei diesem Tagesausflug besuchten wir nicht nur das imposante Ulmer Münster, eine jahrhundertealte gotische Kirche, oder das „schiefste Hotel der Welt“, das 1997 sogar im Guinness Buch der Rekorde verzeichnet ist. Aber auch ein fotografisches Highlight für mich, die Ulmer Zentralbibliothek im historischen Stadtkern. Die gläserne Stadtbibliothek in hochmoderner Pyramidenform von 1998 wirkt zwar wie ein Fremdkörper inmitten der Fachwerkhäuser unweit der Donau, beherbergt aber für Treppenfreunde ein imposantes rotes Treppenhaus mit zwei Aufzügen im futuristischen Stil.