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'Arcade Building with Street Light, 137 Yonge Street, Toronto' by Tony Lea
Each of the mullions on the building has a strip of neon lighting that changes colour in coordination with the others. I tried to get all three colours at their best.
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A bit of context....
I saw [3] while scrolling through flickr, and thought it looked like the scene in Alien when they explore the crashed ship and see the Space Jockeys....
I then got thinking about the rest of the film and whether there are other photos that have the 'Alien' aesthetic, and could they recall some of the key scenes and overall claustrophobia?
I've no idea if I've succeeded or not, but hopefully you'll enjoy the montage
Title photo '16249' by Li Shen
[1] 'Parallel Planes' by Fred Adams LRPS
[2] 'straight up' by Tony Macrellis
[3] 'Bibliotheek Neude-Utrecht' by Henny Vogelaar
[4] 'fields of lava 10782' by s.alt
[5] 'Puffball spores' by Paul Mckenzie8
[6] 'Spider Web' by Mike Day
[7] 'Sci-fi-ish (199/365 Y2)' by Samuel Bavido
[8] 'The First Cut' by Fred Adams LRPS
[9] 'Alien Radiator' by Andy Freer
[10] '11141' by Li Shen
[11] 'Alien' by Giles McGarry
[12] 'Lingotto' by Paolo Benegiamo
[13] '_SDI9187' by yuu sakai
'Port Mann Cable-Stayed Bridge - Night Glow' by Peterson Ph♡tography
British Columbia, Canada
The Port Mann Bridge is a 10-lane cable-stayed bridge that opened to traffic in 2012. It is currently the second longest cable-stayed bridge in North America and was the widest bridge in the world until the opening of the new Bay Bridge in California.
The new bridge replaced a steel arch bridge that spanned the Fraser River, connecting Coquitlam to Surrey in British Columbia near Vancouver.
The new bridge is 2.02 kilometres (1.26 mi) long, 65 metres (213 ft) wide carrying 10 lanes, and has a 42 metres (138 ft) clearance above the river's high water level (the same length and clearance as the old bridge).
The towers are approximately 75 metres (246 ft) tall above deck level, with the total height approximately 163 metres (535 ft) from top of footing. The main span (between the towers) is 470 metres (1,540 ft) long, the second longest cable-stayed span in the western hemisphere.
The main bridge (between the end of the cables) has a length of 850 metres (2,790 ft) with two towers and 288 cables. In addition to the 10 traffic lanes, the new bridge was built to accommodate the future installation of a light rapid transit line underneath the main deck.
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'Amazing robotic library, UBC, Vancouver' by Michael Abbott
The amazing robotic library at UBC, on display through special windows. The command bridge is the balcony visible at the back, from which the librarians can request the box containing your book.
'Under Lions Gate' by Jason Gallant
I went for a rollerblade around the seawall in Stanley Park and took a few pics of Lions Gate Bridge from below. I like it in B&W as it really seemed to bring out the pattern on the bottom of the bridge!
....Edit - I cropped off the bottom as I felt that it took away from the pattern of the bridge.
Title Photo 'wild ride' by Blende57
The humble escalator is not just a practical way to traverse inclines quickly, it can also be an interesting subject for photographers.
Whether it is the sleek, neon blur of modern designs, or the grungy texture of the older versions, there's an escalator for everyone.
A long exposure, and the advantage of clean industrial lines can produce a quality image out of a very everyday object....
Photo by Dennis Gerbeckx
'escalator' by dr.pacemaker
'Escalators' by Zwergie - Cu on Ipernity
'Underground Napoli' by Dirk-jan Davids Blumink
'flash' by Cristóbal Emilio Márquez Martínez
'Wonder Room' by Jon Chiang (I posted this one the other day, but had to include it as it's really excellent photo)
'I Will Never Be the Same Again' by Thomas Hawk
'Umeda Sky Building' by Jacelyn See
'Escalator Insanity' by Nancy Van De Laarschot
'Time Flies' by marco ferrarin
365 days went by so quickly.
Wish you the best for the next 365 days!
Fukagawa Fudo-do temple in downtown Tokyo, Japan.
Taken with Olympus E-M5 and M.Zuiko Digital ED 12mm F2.0
'Casino roof leave [sic]
2016/02, Singapore' by Luca Guizzardi
edit- added [sic] for clarity (not my crappy spelling!)
Back again with a few more CRT shots. Majority done in green by request!
'The Rotherhithe' by Chris
Bit of a London "commuting on foot" fail today. Didn't realise that the 'short' walk from Canada Dock to Tobacco Dock involved dicing through 1.5km of the Rotherhithe Tunnel
'Velocity' by Otto Berkley
Clapham Common Underground Station has the virtue of being one of London's few remaining island-platform stations, with trains travelling in both directions on both sides of a single platform. Standing between two moving trains can be an alarming but exhilarating experience, and it was this sense of energy and propulsion that I was hoping to convey in this image.
Besides the challenge of capturing two trains crossing through the station at the same time and at the same speed, the challenges to realising the image were capturing a busy platform when it was empty, having a high level of control and balance when editing individual portions of the platform, and the fact that an extended shutter speed to capture blurred trains was inevitably going to blow out highlights from the station's overhead lighting. With all of this in mind, the final product was edited by blending several separate exposures.
I began by capturing the platform empty a few minutes after the station opened in the morning, later using luminosity masks in Photoshop to blend multiple exposures for a balanced finish. I then continued photographing for over an hour, capturing trains at various shutter speeds as they pulled into and out of the station, eventually settling on three- and four-second shutter speeds to blur the trains. At the editing stage, I used the pen-tool to select the two tracks on the platform and masked in the trains which I'd captured travelling at similar speeds and with near-identical levels of luminance and saturation.
The challenge after that was restoring the rich reds of the train doors and the blues along the carriage undersides, as the speed at which the trains were travelling blended these into a blurry magenta, meaning both trains needed additional colour-grading in order to restore their primary colours. Having the trains on separate layers was a benefit as it meant I could edit the trains and the platform independently, bringing out the subtle grit and cooler muted tones along the platform without affecting the smooth and vibrant motion of the trains. For me, this contrast between the detail in the platform and the dizzying blur of the trains is what gives the image its impact, and hopefully what evokes a sense of what it's like to be standing on a platform between two moving trains.
Some bonus ones from this last group I did for a project of mine. These are taken on a small magnavox crt tv connected to my computer. Shot with a Nikon D3200 with 50mm 1.8 and mirrored in select ways
