Just for fun post a non-porn pic.

[flyingfree]

The reflection of the sun on the Rhine reflects off the glass windows of the Academy of the Arts designed by Rietveld.

Just this past week, the Washington Post printed a picture of the Schroder-Shrader House (1924) designed by Gerrit Reitveld as a feature in a new exhibit of 1920's modernism at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. The Netherlands commemorated Mr. Reitveld's design on a postage stamp.

 

[buzzj]

The first stone was layed on the 13th of July 1893. The synagogue was designed the city architect Hendrik Jan Heuvelink in the eclectic style. He designed quite a few buildings in the part of Arnhem known as the the Spijkerkwartier and has a boulevard named after him.

Thanks for all that good info. I love the windows and buttresses. It's a great building!

 

[buzzj]

D-Base, wasn't Jim Morrison beautiful? You know, supposedly he was very well-endowed, and not just with talent!

 

[buzzj]

There are some signs of spring in my home town. The Bradford Pear trees are coming into bloom.

The forsythia are also trying their best.

There are Confederate violets all over my neighborhood. They bloom in every spot where a Confederate soldier spilled blood in the War for Southern Independence.

 

[belamy]

 

[wit_afrika]

Giant tees at a golf shop in my neighbourhood.

 

[Tigryto]

 

[buzzj]

A baby crowned lemur (Propithecus verreauxi coronatus) at the Parc Zoologique de Paris

Panda cubs play in a tree at the Wolong Giant Panda Research Centre in China

 

[buzzj]

Giant tees at a golf shop in my neighbourhood.

FORE...!!!

 

[buttons]

On my way to work today I was lookin' up at some of the buildings near the Eusebius church, in de Koningstraat (King Street). Funny the way you never notice things you've seen a thousand times and then suddenly you do...

 

[buzzj]

On my way to work today I was lookin' up at some of the buildings near the Eusebius church, in de Koningstraat (King Street). Funny the way you never notice things you've seen a thousand times and then suddenly you do...

Don't you think that photography helps you "see" better? Thanks, as always, for the great pictures! Number four is my favorite. I wouldn't have been able to take that one without overexposing the top of the building. Good job!!

 

[buzzj]

A City worker speaks on his mobile phone in London's Exchange Square

A man walks through the International Forum building in Tokyo

 

[buttons]

Don't you think that photography helps you "see" better? Thanks, as always, for the great pictures! Number four is my favorite. I wouldn't have been able to take that one without overexposing the top of the building. Good job!!

Thanks Buzzj! I agree, photograpy does help you "see" better, I suppose bringing the camera in case I see something helps as well because then I start looking through "different eyes".

You'll have to explain what you mean by overexposing the top of the building though! I'm not sure what you mean by that. If you mean the zoom button on the camera well I bought a camera that had 10x zoom on it and I use the landscape setting a lot as that allows me to zoom in more and from a further distance. However sometimes the pic isn't focused enough. And I still have problems with macro-photography, I love doing it but the results are very hit or miss at times so I end up having to crop the pic. Occasionally I get lucky though

Btw ^ I love the lighting in the pics in your post, wish I could take pics like that

 

[buzzj]

You'll have to explain what you mean by overexposing the top of the building though! I'm not sure what you mean by that.

I haven't yet gotten familiar enough with my camera to shoot scenes that have both shadow and bright light... without overexposing the light part, i.e. having too much light. Take a look at this picture:

Notice that the walk leading up to the door is badly overexposed--- so that there's no detail there at all. As opposed to the brightest sections of the brick, where there's lots of light--- but the detail is still there. That's what I'm having trouble avoiding.

 

[wit_afrika]

Pics I took a few days ago at Century City, Cape Town.

 

[dynk]

Back to Greece:

 

[just_mills]

Took this whilst walking the dog earlier:

Look out the window, and you shall see:

 

[buttons]

Look out the window, and you shall see:

What a great view!

 

[buttons]

Arnhem by night...

 

[JakeLucas]

^ Wow! What a beautiful golden light!

It's fascinating the way you use the contrasting space.... the height of the tower and the depth of the street.

An excellent picture!