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Fortnightly Challenge May 26 - June 8 : Landmarks
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Cool history and nice color. The image seems to rotated to the right a bit to me. Something showing more of the entire structure or somehow the significance of it's age might be better.
Thank you, Keleko, Ish and Parkin Pig. She keeps getting better and better!
I'm not sure if this counts as a "landmark." These are statues in the House of Cleopatra in Delos, Greece (the "Center of the Universe").
Melizard: I love the tones and details in the 1st one. Is this HDR?
I still don't know how to tell if a photo is HDR. Someday maybe I'll be able to identify HDR pictures. Any hints???
A different view of the Jefferson on a different morning.
JDDavis: This made me gasp! Beautiful!!!
Travona Gallus Frame
We live in a mining town. Many of these structures called gallus frames were preserved and left rather than taken down for scrap. They were the main structures whose tops contained a pulley system which would lower small elevator cabs down the main mine shaft stopping at various levels of the underground mine which went down to one mile below the surface. This one is the Travona mine. About a dozen of these frames dot the hillside where at one time 1/4th of all the copper in the world was produced. Many of them have now been equipped with LCD lights so as the summer progresses I'll have to provide some pictures with them lit up in the evening sky.
We live in a mining town. Many of these structures called gallus frames were preserved and left rather than taken down for scrap. They were the main structures whose tops contained a pulley system which would lower small elevator cabs down the main mine shaft stopping at various levels of the underground mine which went down to one mile below the surface. This one is the Travona mine. About a dozen of these frames dot the hillside where at one time 1/4th of all the copper in the world was produced. Many of them have now been equipped with LCD lights so as the summer progresses I'll have to provide some pictures with them lit up in the evening sky.
Living in D.C. I have no shortage of landmark access. Here's the Jefferson early in the morning.
Jeff, two different yet compelling images of the Jefferson monument. I love the coloring in the first photo and the serenity I fell in the second. Nice captures.
Thank you sir for the kind comments and suggestions.I have one view of the Jetty from the outside.
The Jetty stretching almost 2 km out to sea from the town of Busselton, was temporarily closed last August 2010 for a major repair work from a devastating fire which burnt 65 meters of the Jetty in 1999.
That's a much more compelling shot and a great angle. I really like how at that angle the jetty seems to just go on forever and disappear into the bottom third of the photo. I bet that's a great place for some long exposure sunset or sunrise photos.
Thanks. I think the monuments around D.C. are really best at night and early in the morning. It's starting to get light a little too early now but in the fall I hope I can get some more.
One of the things I like best about topics like this (and the DP community in general) is getting to see all these far away places. Thanks for the visual treat.
Very nice work from everyone!
Dale
Love the color in this photo. Must have been a bit of a challenge to get the exposure just right.Living in D.C. I have no shortage of landmark access. Here's the Jefferson early in the morning.
Interesting subject matter. Well framed.So nicknamed by Terry Wogan on BBC radio! It's about as far from the sea as you can get in the UK. He even joked that because the east coast is eroding so badly, the government had commissioned it for the new coastline! It's was built as a lift testing tower, previously called The Express Lift Tower, now called the National Lift Tower.
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Another great piece. Love the overall composition and cropping here. Would look nice framed on a wall. Send it to the Prez??A different view of the Jefferson on a different morning.
I saw structures like this visiting my parents in Arizona. Nice framing and good choice of light. Maybe push the subject over to the right side of the frame. Then the angled beams would lead into the frame more. The zone to the right seems a bit static. Still like it, though!We live in a mining town. Many of these structures called gallus frames were preserved and left rather than taken down for scrap. They were the main structures whose tops contained a pulley system which would lower small elevator cabs down the main mine shaft stopping at various levels of the underground mine which went down to one mile below the surface. This one is the Travona mine. About a dozen of these frames dot the hillside where at one time 1/4th of all the copper in the world was produced. Many of them have now been equipped with LCD lights so as the summer progresses I'll have to provide some pictures with them lit up in the evening sky.
Another one that would make a great large framed print.Thank you sir for the kind comments and suggestions.I have one view of the Jetty from the outside.
The Jetty stretching almost 2 km out to sea from the town of Busselton, was temporarily closed last August 2010 for a major repair work from a devastating fire which burnt 65 meters of the Jetty in 1999.
Very nice work from everyone!
Dale
Thanks Dale. The monuments are very well lit so they are great to shoot at night. I kind of find long exposures a little easier sometimes. I just experiment (quickly) and find a good shutter speed (and hope to get lucky). I think if they weren't lit as well it would be much harder. The color is left up to nature and post processing. That was a good sunrise. The other pic I posted was a completely flat and colorless sunrise. That's why the pics I kept were from before dawn.
The Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Built in 3 phases between 1787 & 1822 as a seaside retreat for the Prince Regent, and now open to visitors.
The Interior is even more opulent than the exterior.
One of my early attempts at HDR, the resulting effect looks almost totally computer-generated.
Built in 3 phases between 1787 & 1822 as a seaside retreat for the Prince Regent, and now open to visitors.
The Interior is even more opulent than the exterior.
One of my early attempts at HDR, the resulting effect looks almost totally computer-generated.
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It's a bit of an eye-sore though (imo), they should paint it white and red to look like a lighthouse
LOL! When you see it from a distance it's actually quite elegant. I would have liked to get another from further away against the sunset but, alas, no sunsets and we've run out of time for this challenge.
Having said that, I wouldn't like to live next to it either!
Thanks, Dale.
Amazing capture, the colors look great. A very vibrant photo-desktop or calendar material. Nice job.
Your photo is a bit too large, even on my 23in. HD monitor. Try to set an image to 1200px or less wide (800px high or less). That assures it will:
a) not attract the moderators (they will edit it to a thumbnail) and
b) It will fit without scrolling on most monitors. Using ImageShack, It's easier to just set the width to fit a 15in. monitor when you upload it.
I'm just keeping house here. Nothing personal or anything.
Dale
Note: New thread (Age) starts Thursday the 9th. Anyone can open it after around 3:30pm Pacific Time. That's the date change on the International Dateline.
Fcortese: Cheers! I've only been playing around with a slr over the last month or so and have been meaning to give night photography a go. Vivid was a perfect opportunity to try it out!
Designer Dale: Thanks for the tip - I've adjusted it to a thumbnail for now. In my tiredness I copied and pasted the wrong URL from imageshack and didn't review it after posting.
Designer Dale: Thanks for the tip - I've adjusted it to a thumbnail for now. In my tiredness I copied and pasted the wrong URL from imageshack and didn't review it after posting.
You're thinking of Delphi. Both Delphi and Delos were sacred to Apollo, but it was Delphi that had the famous "omphalos" (the world's 'navel') and that was the acknowledged center of the universe in the Greek world.
At any rate, you did a good job with the exposure on this one and managed to get some decent light on the statue group. Because access to the island is so limited, a lot of people are forced to take photos there when the sun is very high and harsh, but the light looks relatively soft and revealing in this shot. In the future, however, you might want to try a different composition with this kind of subject. The blue framing the statues is pretty thin on the left of Kleopatra, creating a bit of unnecessary tension there, and the angle (just off of center) doesn't seem very deliberate. Sometimes going for a symmetrical, frontal "textbook shot" is the most satisfying solution with sculpture that was made to be viewed in that way.
Thank you for your comments. Photography is very new to me, and I mostly just take tourist-y shots without too much thought put into composition. I appreciate it when any form of guidance is offered to me.