architecture
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When part of the Bay Bridge collapsed in 1989 earthquake, I thought my parents had gone down with it because they crossed the bridge for their commute every day. There were no cell phones back then and all the land lines were jammed up following the earthquake, so it took us a few hours to…
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The Golden Gate Bridge without a Road
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Whoa, check out the Golden Gate Bridge without a road. From the Denver Post, via Gizmodo.
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China plans to build the world’s tallest building in just 90 days. Once completed, the 220-story structure will surpass Burj Khalifa by 10 meters to become the tallest structure in the world. Here’s that same company erecting a 30-story hotel in 360 hours in December 2011.
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Tiffany Dome at 24mm
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The Chicago Cultural Center’s Louis Comfort Tiffany art glass dome at 24mm, not wide enough. Restored in 2008, this is the largest Tiffany glass dome in the world. May, 2011.
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The Bay Bridge (Western Span)
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The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, western span (as opposed to the eastern span). Circa 2011.
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Stairs to Coit Tower
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Been playing tour guide for a friend/former student visiting from Canada. Here’s a picture I took going up to Coit Tower. This image is pretty much SOOC. It wasn’t planned, but I actually got a shot of the step sponsored by the cleaning company with the same name.
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Snøhetta Works
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This is a book that my architecture/design friend Jaime gave me last month. She likes architecture and she knows that I like pictures, so she figured she would give me a book of photographs of architecture by a Norwegian company called Snøhetta. As she was describing the firm and all their designs, and I asked…
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Darkness into Light
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In addition to Tony’s list, I watched a documentary on portrait and fashion photographer Richard Avedon called Darkness and Light. Here’s a quote from the video that really resonated with how I’ve been approaching photography: What drives him is this deeper more profound genuine interest in the people that he’s seeking out, in the stories…
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The Narrow Road
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Too bad I didn’t have a wide angle with me that day. And too bad I don’t have a tripod. Oh well. Saints Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco, located ironically at 666 Filbert Street.