View allAll Photos Tagged writeups
It looks like most photos submitted to Flickr are taken by mobile phones. What is most surprising is that the image quality is sufficient for this to happen.
Because of recent advances in the state of the art of micro-miniature camera technology, two of the charts are identical, after adjusting for the time axis scale difference.
All these charts need changes to be useful. I discuss these changes at the end of this writeup.
I found all this surprising until I realized that most of the time, for casual photography, I use my iPhone 6 Plus. I no longer carry a Kodak, Fuji, or a Canon camera in a trouser pocket in addition to the iPhone in my shirt pocket as I did just a few years ago. I still carry a camera with a zoom lens when I want to take portraits at night or indoors. And when I want to take long distance photos of specific people or of specific objects at a distance.
The image quality of the iPhone 6 Plus is surprisingly good. The main limitations for me are:
1. Lack of a viewfinder makes it difficult to see what I am shooting in bright sunlight. The same limitation applies to most current point and shoot cameras.
2. The zoom range is quite limited at the long and short ranges,
3. I haven't figured out how to set the shutter speed as a priority, and to consistently control the ISO setting.
I also find it interesting that the most popular current cameras of Flickr members are Apple's iPhones 5, 5s, 6 and 6 Plus and Samsung's Galaxy 5S camera phones. I have tried all of these, and thy are all quite good.
A Sony Xperia camera phone image is shown at the top. However, it doesn't make it to the charts.
A Canon and a Nikon DSLR are shown at the top, but they do not show up in the charts.
These charts are no longer useful for Flickr's P&S and DSLR camera users. We clearly need some changes in flickr's presentation charts. I suggest the following changes:
1. We need a separate category for camera phones.
2. We need separate Point and Shoot camera and DSLR camera charts,
excluding camera phones.
3. Each chart should show the most popular models within their own category, and their relative ranking amongst themselves.
Fifty years ago, today, Houston instructed Apollo 13 how to cobble together a connection between the square CO2 scrubbers in the Command Module ECU to work with the round discs in the Lunar Module lifeboat which was drawn into heroic use beyond its original breathing oxygen budget (designed for a lunar landing of two people, not a round trip to Earth with three). This was one of the finest moments for duct tape... when failure was not an option.
This large artifact in the Future Ventures space museum is an original Apollo Block 2 flight version of the entire Environmental Control Unit (ECU) in the original shipping frame. It is very rare; I have never seen another in private hands. The Airesearch CO2 Cannister holder on the right has date stamps: May 26, 1967 and and Jan 5, 1968 and April 24, 1968 with NASA contract NAS-9-150 stamped on the metal tag. It's a complex beast performing numerous functions including: air cooling and heating; humidity control; ventilation to suits and cabin; air filtration and critically to Apollo 13, CO2 and odor removal. Here is the NASA writeup on it, and diagrams and close up photos below.
And the Apollo 13 drama as portrayed in the movie was a bit distorted. Astronaut Ken Mattingly (original Apollo 13 flight crew) in The Greatest Space Hack Ever: “The beauty in this whole thing was, these guys were so prepared for even the most implausible things. They knew no one had ever simulated exactly what happened, but they had simulated the kind of stress that could be applied to the system and the people in it. They knew what their options were and had some ideas already in place about where to go. In the movie, they played it like nobody ever thought of this. They dumped a bunch of junk on the table and said, ‘Can you figure it out?’ That was the only way the movie could convey how we got there. In reality, there was total familiarity with the hardware.”
Quote: Jewish Proverb
I still vividly remember how I pestered my dad for my first computer when I was just 13, bluffing that all my classmates have one. It was just a mindless desire. He finally bought me one with his savings and left to the town where he was working; the rest of us were in the city; he used to visit us once in a week.
After buying it, I just played a couple of games and didn't know what to do with it. I wept in my mother's arms heavily, blaming myself that I have wasted dad's hard earned money for nothing. She just brushed my hair and said, "It's ok, you will learn gradually, even in this playing will you learn some computer; nothing goes wasted. If you have this sense of seriousness that you shouldn't waste dad's money, then you will make good use of it".
This day I'm a game programmer, often called a geek with exuberant interest in computers; all this is only because of her courageous words.
Thank you அம்மா! Wish you a very happy birthday, dear mom :)
P.S.: I sneaked this candid photo when my nephew (her grandson) Skanda was playing with my mom ;)
My personal favourite photo with my iPhone is the seagulls hovering over the boat on the way to Miyajima. Two year old snap at Miyajima, just completed a small writeup here. japantourist.jp/view/autumn-at-kiyomizudera-temple
Long-tailed tits feeding chicks at Millers wood.
More photos and writeup on my blog at www.johnstantonphotography.co.uk/long-tailed-tits-feeding...
Please take a look, thank you.
A baby, on my son's finger. We have many more of these.
Species post up soon, I promise, with bonus pictures of some animals. Until then, I made a really stupid cartoony post to tide you over.
Check out all my Species a Day posts, with writeups, here.
Facebook...'Like' this for future shoots and content
Check out www.alexDPhotography.com for writeups from my shoots, high-def wallpapers, videos and other content.
I have a different/better shot of our resident black widow that I'll add in the morning. I've been trying to only use decent shots for this series, but my memory card sucks, and I'm tired. So you get my view from one of my trips to the garage several months ago. An egg sac hatched and the spiderlings parachuted onto the light fixture. They were scurrying down to my head on new web when I took this. (If you can believe it, this was a totally separate occasion from my previous encounter of this type.) Sadly, these beauties were, um, evicted. I do have limits. For example, I only hatched and raised ONE of the black widow egg sacs. See? Totally normal limits.
Seriously, you should see it big. Every speck and blob you think might be a spider, is. And then some.
Check out all of my Species a Day writeups here.
Moonlit Pyramid Rock Panorama
<!-- wp:paragraph -->
I visited Pyramid Rock at Phillip Island in the hopes of capturing an Aurora following a recent solar flare. Sadly it did not eventuate so instead I spent the night having a play around with a large panorama. This image is two combined panorama's of about 15 and 21 images which were taken with a Sony A7R 4, Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 (@ 28mm), 15 seconds, f/2.8 & ISO 1600. Image was stitched using Autopano Giga, and was edited in Lightroom CC and Photoshop. The image was really just a test to see how using a motion controller (PINE II) and motorized heads worked. Sadly there are a few errors around the horizon but otherwise it was a great experience and was a very nice environment to spend the night at, listening to the nearby possums and penguins. I have a full writeup at Moonlit Panorama • Travis Hale (Photography and Science)
<!-- /wp:paragraph -->
<--For those that are interested, All the Socials -->
Instagram: Trav.Hale,
Twitter: @TravisHale,
Facebook: TravHale
500px: TravisHale,
Flickr: TravisH1984,
Web: www.travishale.com
While in Tokyo last year, I retraced the steps I took during my first vacation there, almost 20 years ago. I tried to recreate some of the photos I took to see how things had changed.
I made a full writeup in this blog post, which will also include more photos than I'll be posting here on Flickr.
去年、東京にいる間に、ほぼ20年前の初めて東京へ行った旅行の行った道を戻りました。景色はどうやて変わったのかと思いました。それで、昔に撮った写真と比べるために、出来るだけ同じように現代版を撮りました。
もっと詳しくは このブログの投稿をご覧になってください。
I'm really in love with the Vignette app for Android, but I always have trouble keeping up with the number of filters and effects that it enables, so I made myself a cheat sheet.
(See my quick blog writeup for more information, including the complete list of effects.)
A few months after posting, this is the most-viewed thing I've ever posted to flickr. Huh. I'm glad so many people find it useful!
Oh man, where do I start.
This car is modded very lightly Andrew has KW coilovers, a Vorsteiner CF lip, CSL wheels and a few other goodies. I still remember the first time I saw one of these things cruising down the street, I was in the 4th grade and I asked my parents why they bought a Lexus instead of a 3 series/M3. They told me the M3 wasn't practical because it only came in a two door and it was over priced. BLASPHEMY! e46 M3's are awesome. That being said the e46 M3 is one of my favorite cars to date. I can appreciate other M3 models, (e30, e36, e9x, f30) but, from a completely subjective perspective, I think the e46 has the most beautiful lines. BMW has done an extraordinary job with all their cars, especially their well known M power series. They have an almost perfect balance of speed and class.
I hope to some day be driving an M3 as a weekend car and keep my e90 as a daily driver.
Thanks for looking! :D
Like me on facebook, add me on tumblr, do what you want. Here are the links!
For more photos and writeups on this LEGO creation:
alanyuppie.blogspot.com/2018/04/lego-transformer-delorean...
Follow me in FB!
www.facebook.com/alanyuppiebrick/
..and subscribe my youtube channel!
www.youtube.com/user/alanyuppie
...Instagram, anyone?
Probably the most interesting feature of this store is its yogurt counter. No, not frozen yogurt, just regular greek yogurt. Yes, it's weird. Here's a writeup about the company, which is apparently kind of a big deal locally (though I had only barely heard of it before this... I'm not exactly a foodie, and I try to stay several blocks away from Pike Place Market, especially during the summer :) ).
May 18, 2021: This morning, I worked on another Pep Ventosa image. Various website writeups of the Pep Ventosa Technique recommend starting with a simple subject - a tree. So this morning, I found this tree with new green growth at Stagecoach Inn Park in Newbury Park. I took a series of images covering 180 degrees of the tree, keeping the trunk in the exact location. I used eleven of the images to make this version.
Richard sent me these very cool techniques along with a great writeup on his blog. Details are now on Swooshable: #1 and #2.
Builder's plate. Who knew this locomotive is in the Register of Historical Places??? Maumelle Ordnance Works Locomotive #1 , mascarading as Augusta Railroad #7 at the Fort smith Trolley Museum. A truely unique critter for sure as it is powered by a Hercules gasoline engine that will turn 1800 rpm and is coupled to the wheels through a 4 speed gear box to the counter shafts that turn the drivers through drive rods. I had no idea I was photoing such a significant piece of history. Attached is the writeup from Wiki, I recommend reading it for some fascinating information.
I stand corrected on the physical explanation of the sunset angel. The key term here is "cloud shadowing"; Google with this, and you will find the best writeups on the phenomenon, including Phil Plait's excellent blog posting on Slate. When the sun is behind a cloud, a shadow is cast, but the irregularities of a cloud contour allows for random beams of light to poke through. These beams are essentially parallel, but from far away, they look like they are radiating from the sun. That is just perspective at work. We will see an angel on the opposite horizon when the clould is close by at about the same level as us with plenty of blue sky around the cloud as it blocks the sun. Then the beams shoot past us and appear to converge on a vanishing point on the opposite horizon. This is of course fainter than the rays seen when facing the sun. Anyway, a sunset angel should be rare; the necessary conditions probably occur only a couple times in a decade. It requires a high place like Haleakala along with a higher altitude cloud like cumulonimbus in just the right place and of the right size and shape and air filled for many miles with water droplets or volcanic aerosols to make beams visible. This is still much more likely than a camera obscura event. See actual CLOUD blocking sun
Strobist: Elinchrom Quadra HS Head in a large octa, boomed overhead, f/5.6. 2 silver reflectors on side, one on the floor. Elinchrom ELC Pro HD 500 in the ELinchrom "Bishop's Hat" background reflector, seasoned to taste.
Skyport triggering.
PP in LR/PS.
Writeup on kidona.com.
© Donald J. Fadel, Jr. | kidona.com
Sasha is a beautiful cat "with her own viewpoints and opinions. She can be quite friendly and enjoys chin scratches -- on her own terms, of course!. She's active and would love her own human companion to share playtime with." (says the shelter writeup.) As of about 6 November 2015, she was at Purrington's... not sure if she went back to the shelter but she was adopted on 27 November 2015, when thanks to "black (cat) friday" all adoption fees for all cats and kittens were covered by Best Friends and Zappos.com!
This photo shows the Sherwood main shelter adoption area from inside one of the free-roam rooms. You can see a cat-quarium and the wall of cages that goes around the central care area.
Pointblank from G1 Transformers cartoon series, turns into a futuristic speedster. Transformation doesn't require reassembly of parts.
I am taking inspiration from both his original toy version from the 80s and also some design cues from his cartoon/comic version.
For more photos and writeups of this LEGO creation, do pay a visit to my blog link below ! Thank you!
alanyuppie.blogspot.com/2018/05/lego-former-targetmaster-...
Follow me in FB!
www.facebook.com/alanyuppiebrick/
..and subscribe my youtube channel!
www.youtube.com/user/alanyuppie
...Instagram, anyone?
Strobist: Elinchrom Quadra HS Head in a large octa, boomed overhead, f/4. 2 silver reflectors on side, one on the floor. Skyport triggering.
PP in LR/PS.
Writeup on kidona.com.
© Donald J. Fadel, Jr. | kidona.com
For more photos and writeups on this LEGO creation:
alanyuppie.blogspot.com/2018/04/lego-transformer-delorean...
Follow me in FB!
www.facebook.com/alanyuppiebrick/
..and subscribe my youtube channel!
www.youtube.com/user/alanyuppie
...Instagram, anyone?
Vehicle mode of Delorean Time Machine
For more photos and writeups on this LEGO creation:
alanyuppie.blogspot.com/2018/04/lego-transformer-delorean...
Follow me in FB!
www.facebook.com/alanyuppiebrick/
..and subscribe my youtube channel!
www.youtube.com/user/alanyuppie
...Instagram, anyone?
I built this for the Jaeger vs. Kaiju building challenge over on Brick Mecha Division. Here's the lore writeup I made for it there:
The next generation of technology in the fight against the Kaiju, EUXO was designed to mirror a human's anatomy without using any organic material. The result is an incredibly complex synthetic organism that - by linking with the pilot's brain - functions as their surrogate body. This allows for reaction times and awareness unheard of in previous generation Jaegers.
For standard armaments, EUXO carries a medium-range AP rifle for piercing Kajiu hide and an "Ahlspiess" Anti-Kaiju spear. The Ahlspiess is designed to be stabbed into the enemy beast, whereupon its two prongs forcefully open and it emits a large energy blast to the Kaiju's internals.
The EUXO can also utilize optional Type-B equipment. This functions as extra armor and includes a number of stabilizers for extra maneuverability during air drops.
So yeah, obvious Evangelion inspiration here. I originally just wanted to add some optional shoulder parts containing ammo/missiles but that eventually grew into a full armor set. Note that the waist armor also includes extra braces for the hip joints so the whole thing doesn't topple under the added weight.
Pointblank from G1 Transformers cartoon series, turns into a futuristic speedster. Transformation doesn't require reassembly of parts.
I am taking inspiration from both his original toy version from the 80s and also some design cues from his cartoon/comic version.
For more photos and writeups of this LEGO creation, do pay a visit to my blog link below ! Thank you!
alanyuppie.blogspot.com/2018/05/lego-former-targetmaster-...
Follow me in FB!
www.facebook.com/alanyuppiebrick/
..and subscribe my youtube channel!
www.youtube.com/user/alanyuppie
...Instagram, anyone?
Not super happy about the lighting on this one, but I'm tired. Better version tomorrow, maybe.
Taken at the Gilbert Riparian Preserve.
Check out all of my Species a Day writeups here.
I stopped by the Camera Company today with a simple question, which is really no matter to this stranger story. Alas, I waited for a few minutes as they were assisting a man with 35mm film. I couldn't help but notice the beautiful camera and lens combination in his hand, and knew that at that instant I wanted to take his photograph. We all chatted for a brief moment on the benefit to the Nikon system being so interchangeable between digital and 35mm. After brief conversation he left, and I was able to ask my question; but I still wanted to capture the man with the magnificent camera!
As luck may have it, I did my usual up and down walk of State Street and when I reached the 100 Block we ran into one another again. This time I was able to make a little more conversation with him, introducing myself as Chris and he informed me that his name was Brent. Quickly learning the ins and outs of his photographic style, he told, me that he prefers film over digital. Though he did admit that shooting so much digital sometimes creates a false reality, as often he finds himself looking at the back of his 35mm SLR to review images. I explained to him my project of shooting the strangers of Madison, and asked if I could include him in the project. As most photographers do, he agreed and posed nicely for me against the glass windows on Overture Center for the Arts. Quickly adjusting my settings, I fired a few frames off; but he told me that I should take a photo of him with his camera to his eye. As often enough that is how his subjects see him, while I tried that I like this more classic pose.
I learned through our conversation that Brent recently made his first ebay purchase, in fact it was a mint Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens. While he didn't specify what version, I've owned a number of Nikkor 50mm an always had good luck with them. He acknowledged that he was a bit leery of the offer as it was being auctioned from Japan (home to Nikon at that) but four quick days later he had his new lens. He stated that it looked as good as new and came in the original box and everything, I hope that we cross paths again someday so I can take a look at the lens. Today he was shooting with a 135mm f2 AI-S lens, a tack sharp of a telephoto (1981-2005).
In parting I gave him a link to my Flickr page, so that he could sort out finding his photograph and story included for the 100 strangers project. He did inform me that I should consider a name change as "local paparazzi" could bring up all sorts of bad results. I assured him that I have a large following, and thus upon searching Google the first result is a link to my photostream. All the more reason to get business cards made out, but that's another step for another day!
063/100
I originally built my previous LEGO Technique as an assembly to deal with the gavel. Then things got crazy. See my writeup at www.dagsbricks.com/2013/11/lego-techniques-bring-down-gav...
Crosshair from G1 Transformers Cartoon Series transforms into a futuristic buggy.
For more photos and writeups on this LEGO creations:
alanyuppie.blogspot.com/2018/03/lego-transformer-crosshai...
Follow me in FB!
www.facebook.com/alanyuppiebrick/
..and subscribe my youtube channel!
www.youtube.com/user/alanyuppie
...Instagram, anyone?
I built this for the Jaeger vs. Kaiju building challenge over on Brick Mecha Division. Here's the lore writeup I made for it there:
The next generation of technology in the fight against the Kaiju, EUXO was designed to mirror a human's anatomy without using any organic material. The result is an incredibly complex synthetic organism that - by linking with the pilot's brain - functions as their surrogate body. This allows for reaction times and awareness unheard of in previous generation Jaegers.
For standard armaments, EUXO carries a medium-range AP rifle for piercing Kajiu hide and an "Ahlspiess" Anti-Kaiju spear. The Ahlspiess is designed to be stabbed into the enemy beast, whereupon its two prongs forcefully open and it emits a large energy blast to the Kaiju's internals.
The EUXO can also utilize optional Type-B equipment. This functions as extra armor and includes a number of stabilizers for extra maneuverability during air drops.
So yeah, obvious Evangelion inspiration here. I originally just wanted to add some optional shoulder parts containing ammo/missiles but that eventually grew into a full armor set. Note that the waist armor also includes extra braces for the hip joints so the whole thing doesn't topple under the added weight.
Vehicle mode of Delorean Time Machine
For more photos and writeups on this LEGO creation:
alanyuppie.blogspot.com/2018/04/lego-transformer-delorean...
Follow me in FB!
www.facebook.com/alanyuppiebrick/
..and subscribe my youtube channel!
www.youtube.com/user/alanyuppie
...Instagram, anyone?
A little crazy Mayan flash flavor experience
full writeup on: www.flashflavor.com/2007/11/26/165/for-the-next-time-you-...
I built this for the Jaeger vs. Kaiju building challenge over on Brick Mecha Division. Here's the lore writeup I made for it there:
The next generation of technology in the fight against the Kaiju, EUXO was designed to mirror a human's anatomy without using any organic material. The result is an incredibly complex synthetic organism that - by linking with the pilot's brain - functions as their surrogate body. This allows for reaction times and awareness unheard of in previous generation Jaegers.
For standard armaments, EUXO carries a medium-range AP rifle for piercing Kajiu hide and an "Ahlspiess" Anti-Kaiju spear. The Ahlspiess is designed to be stabbed into the enemy beast, whereupon its two prongs forcefully open and it emits a large energy blast to the Kaiju's internals.
The EUXO can also utilize optional Type-B equipment. This functions as extra armor and includes a number of stabilizers for extra maneuverability during air drops.
So yeah, obvious Evangelion inspiration here. I originally just wanted to add some optional shoulder parts containing ammo/missiles but that eventually grew into a full armor set. Note that the waist armor also includes extra braces for the hip joints so the whole thing doesn't topple under the added weight.
I built this for the Jaeger vs. Kaiju building challenge over on Brick Mecha Division. Here's the lore writeup I made for it there:
The next generation of technology in the fight against the Kaiju, EUXO was designed to mirror a human's anatomy without using any organic material. The result is an incredibly complex synthetic organism that - by linking with the pilot's brain - functions as their surrogate body. This allows for reaction times and awareness unheard of in previous generation Jaegers.
For standard armaments, EUXO carries a medium-range AP rifle for piercing Kajiu hide and an "Ahlspiess" Anti-Kaiju spear. The Ahlspiess is designed to be stabbed into the enemy beast, whereupon its two prongs forcefully open and it emits a large energy blast to the Kaiju's internals.
The EUXO can also utilize optional Type-B equipment. This functions as extra armor and includes a number of stabilizers for extra maneuverability during air drops.
So yeah, obvious Evangelion inspiration here. I originally just wanted to add some optional shoulder parts containing ammo/missiles but that eventually grew into a full armor set. Note that the waist armor also includes extra braces for the hip joints so the whole thing doesn't topple under the added weight.
At the preview for Houston's 2014 Art Car Parade.
Today's Houston Chronicle features a great writeup on the parade, history, etc.:
If you wish to read about the rock sculptures then go here for the writeup about what I made today. If you want to read mad ramblings then stay right here as you'll find plenty... :-)
There is something that my art gives to me that I find quite hard to explain. It gives me little insights into the world and into myself but they happen without me knowing I am looking for them. Often after I create something I learn something that I was not searching for or expected to reveal. I suppose many artists have questions they want to answer and they use their art to search for resolutions. But with mine I regularly find out that there are things being revealed by accident. It is almost like my subconcious mind is opened and things come out that I did not expect nor was looking for. It is only now that I have realised that art allows you to learn about oneself. I only found this out by practicing art and I had no idea that that is the way it would be.
Recently I have been taking a break. I have been reading lots of art history and looking at symbology from around the world to try and open my mind to more wider influences. Doing these things has given me some space to think about my own art and as this new year begins and spring approaches I feel like I have consolidated what I have learnt over the past year and feel that I am ready to begin again and learn much more.
I am trying to peel back a new layer by starting to investigate how the seasons affect me personally. Of course my art reflects the seasons, the colours and materials available are my pallete with which to express but it is starting to become clear to me that the changes in season actually affect me physiologically and this is also expressed through what I make. How exactly, I don't know but I want to learn more about that this year.
I came to this conclusion as I have entered the doldrums on two occasions in the past year, whilst being quite prolific the rest of the time. As summer turned to spring and since the turn of the year I have felt unable to muster any inspiration but as the nights draw back and spring draws nearer I feel the passion returning and I am convinced that this is more than just one-of-those-things and it is tied in with the change of the seasons. After all we are creatures of this world and under its influence just the same as anything else that lives along with us.
Anyway - normal coverage has been resumed. And if you have made it this far, and managed to get through these mid-winter musings then I have something important to share with you.
I am attracted by colours and my art nearly always involves spotting something I like that grabs my attention and then making something with it. Today it was grouse poo.
Well no not really. But there was a lot of it on the fell today and in a world of brown and grey, brightly coloured grouse poo did seem attractive. I noticed that depending on its age the colours changed and I was so very tempted to create a colour fade with it. I am a little worried that I am becoming a little obsessed and when that happens I just have to make whatever is in my mind for fear of going insane. I can envisage a whole series of poo land art with such broad scope for different ideas. And through the study I can learn about what all the different creatures eat and bring a whole new dimension to it through the sense of smell. And before you know it a whole new field of land art will be born. And that field may have cows, sheep or chickens in it. And of course poo...
Now I expect you want to know about these rock stacks? Well they are just stacked bits of rock! There is nothing new to learn here not while there is grouse poo to collect...
shot this photo way back in 2008 and came across it recently. My editing of it was simply terrible and, since it was one of my favorites, I decided to give it new life with a total post processing redo. Came out much better. Here is my writeup from back then.
Venice is a magical place and it is very hard to describe it to someone who hasn't been there. There is a feel to the "city" that is unlike anywhere else I have been. Venice actually lies in a lagoon that is protected from the sea by thin strips of land that have three small inlets. Rather than an island, Venice is actually made up of 124 small islands connected by small bridges. Venice is a favorite destination for tourists who arrive by plane, water taxi and cruise ships. This particular morning, I got up at dawn and wandered out onto the Grand Canal. This is one of the few times you can avoid the crowds of tourists and get some shots without worrying about bumping into someone. I noticed this artist that had the same idea and was painting the scene. As I began to shoot a few photos of the artist, I noticed this large cruise ship being towed down the Grand Canal out to sea by a little tugboat. It was an amazing scene that I never saw coming. I think I enjoy the images that are a result of just dumb luck the best.
1903, Henry Ives Cobb. Cobb was a prominent architect from Chicago; this was his first building in New York. It originally had a 4-column portico surrounding the entrance, topped by an entablature. Interestingly, 100 Broadway, a couple blocks up and built a few years before, originally had a similar structure: Greek Revival columns surmounted by Renaissance Revival relief on the facade. But that building lost its facade decoration in a subsequent reconstruction, whereas this one lost its columns.
For an excellent writeup on this building, as well as a picture of the original facade with columns, see daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2012/07/henry-ives-cobbs-1....
Portraits Of Seattle #6 Musician FENCES
Click the Link to read my writeup/Andrew Matsons 3 Questions