Photo of the Day | March 2025

[iAssimilated]

 

[stillcrazyman]

 

[Apple_Glen_UK]

Looking over Paris at night.

 

[squawk7000]

St Enoch Centre, Glasgow

 

[svish]

 

[dimme]

Sierra Point-241117-3.jpg by Charles Martorelli, on Flickr

 

[dhershberger]

The lonely surfer. Punta de Lobos, Pichilemu, Chile. September, 2023.

 

[OldMacs4Me]

I really need to go back to the original digital image and rework this one. It's a 1976 4x5 of the same mill/leaching foundations shown in yesterdays post but from the opposite direction.

Schneider Xenar 127mm lens @ƒ-22. Kodak Plus-X souped in D-23 (2-step)

 

[OldMacs4Me]

I believe it is around here.

In the mid '80's I was pretty familiar with the area but that was before the open pit started operations. Holy smokes, the area certainly has changed in the the last 40 years. The area where the pit is was a mishmash of the remnants of underground mines. There was a small surface operation where you could see the drifts that had been exposed from the removal of material.

Yep, when I took that image they were just starting to collect and mill the old tailings pile. Golden Cycle was very generous in allowing me free rein to photograph as long as I stayed well back from any work they were doing. Not surprised that it is now largely open pit. Bet the current owners would probably not be quite so obliging.

The image just above is from 1976 and was at a point that if anything was being done it was just small scale testing. Glad I have a few solid if not spectacular images from before the current destruction.

 

[goldmac2006]

 

[arkitect]

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Les Espaces d'Abraxas: "a unique combination of the romantic sublime and totalitarian awe"
1/200s 24mm @ f/8

Oh dear god! That takes me back… 🤣
I started my Architecture degree the year this was completed.
Riccardo Bofill was one of the hot to trot guys… so many of these things have aged so badly.

Mind you, Tschumi's Follies are still awesome. 🙂

 

[C0ncreteBl0nde]

~/.
But the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away.../~

 

[oblomow]

 

[katbel]

 

[jz0309]

Roseate Spoonbills (I think)

 

[Matsamoto]

One from our trip to the north of Sweden, July 2009 with a Nikon D40X.

 

[_timo_redux_]

Oh dear god! That takes me back… 🤣
I started my Architecture degree the year this was completed.
Riccardo Bofill was one of the hot to trot guys… so many of these things have aged so badly.

Mind you, Tschumi's Follies are still awesome. 🙂

Agreed about aging badly; nearly my first reaction too. Aging badly physically and stylistically. Sent that photo and a few others to some friends who were also studying architecture as I was dans la France in the late 80s; we remembered the celebration of Bofill was tricky and suspect.

But for me Tschumi and La Villette was just another flavor of suspect.

 

[_timo_redux_]

goodbye PARIS
1/160s 40mm @ f/2.5

 

[AlaskaMoose]

 

[Clix Pix]

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

 

[dhershberger]

Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska. September, 2021.

 

[TechRunner]

Blue Ridge Mountains, Montvale, VA.

 

[squawk7000]

Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow. home to Glasgow Rangers FC

for our friends in San Francisco, this is the 49ers latest acquisition. Takeover should be finalised soon.

 

[stillcrazyman]