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I wanted to try the fake tilt-shift lens (aka miniature) effect again, so here's a photo I shot a while back in argentine square in tehran,iran. it's treated in photoshop to mimic the effect.
updated: original photo here.
Tehran (the capital city of Iran) is a very crowded city.
It's polpulation is more than 12 millions at work hours and 7 millions at night time.
I don't know the number of autos in Tehran streets, but from my friend's source, about 3 millions car are now driven in Tehran!
Here is "Vali-e Asr" street, shoot from top of "Parkway" bridge, at sunset time.
The background mountains are northern mountains of Tehran, where our home is placed on!
Check the map for more geographic info.
Added to flickr explore (interestingness) page of 5 September 2006.
Milad Tower (Persian: Borj e Milād – برج میلاد), also known as the Tehran Tower (برج تهران – Borj e Tehrān),[3] is a multi-purpose tower in Tehran, Iran. It is the sixth tallest tower[4] and the 17th tallest freestanding structure in the world.[5]
It is located between the Qarb Town and Gisha District, standing at 435 m (1,427 ft) from base to the tip of the antenna.[6] The head consists of a large pod with 12 floors, the roof of which is at 315 m (1,033 ft).
The tower is a part of a complex called International Trade and Convention Center of Tehran. The complex also includes a five-star hotel, a convention center, a world trade center, and an IT park.[
"Award-winning Israeli-Persian singer-songwriter Liraz captures the audience with her skills. Singing in Persian, her songs fuse modern Israeli music with her Persian roots. Liraz’s music has made her a beacon for the women’s rights movement – in and outside Iran.
Her 2018 debut album, Naz (Dead Sea Recordings), features pop songs written by female singers in pre-revolution Iran. The album lit up Iran’s social media, and Liraz was sent videos of women dancing in their homes, with their chadors, headscarves and veils cast off, and Iranian musicians began sending her lyrics and melodies via encrypted files.
This is how Liraz’s personal revolution, her second album, Zan (Glitterbeat, 2020), started to take shape. Liraz collaborated on the album with anonymous Iranian songwriters and musicians, working online, keeping secret from Tehran’s religious leaders and the secret police. The outcome is songs with a message and music that makes people dance, smile and, above all, think. The musicians involved in her second album also feature on Liraz’s third and most recent album, Roya (Glitterbeat, 2022), which was recorded face to face regardless of the presence of fear and danger.
In 2021, Liraz won the Best Artist category in the Songlines Music Awards, and she has been nominated for the same award again this year.
"What if I was born in Iran and could not sing – would I try and escape? There are always so many stories and visions inside my head. But I know that I need to sing, I must sing, for the muted women of Iran. And I want to sing to Iran about my feelings for Iran."
Liraz
British-built AEC Regent bus speeding up Pahlavi Avenue, Tehran in the summer of 1970
The city bought loads of left-hand drive AEC Regent V buses with Park Royal bodies. A batch of smaller ones arrived in 1958, with a bigger batch of longer ones being acquired in 1966/67. This is one of the shorter ones.
I returned to the city again in 1974 by which time the bus livery had changed from red to green.
Photo by Dick Gilbert 1970.
The full story is here;