@adamshostack now you will be lectured about how it’s completely fine, and any mishaps are the users’ fault.

Captured on a very snowy day in Center City Philadelphia with a (weatherproofed) DSLR and 105mm lens. Brrr.

Train in Blizzard, Philadelphia, PA, 2010.

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@Gorfram Yeah, the cannoli line was Godfather.

It's an excellent tree.

By the way, this tree is still alive and well 15 years later, looking pretty much the same. It featured in an episode of the Sopranos shortly after I made this photo, but I wouldn't ask it for an autograph.

This simple composition was made with a small FF mirrorless camera, 21mm lens, and travel tripod during a short hike.

I didn't have any ND filters with me, so ended up having to shoot this in the bright midday light at f/8. That yields too much DoF to allow focus to separate the tree from the background. But fortunately there was just enough haze to reduce the contrast of the distant hills a bit, yielding a high contrast subject with a lower contrast background. So it worked out in the end.

Tree, Red Rock Canyon, NV, 2011.

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Violets are red
Roses are blue
When RGB byte fields
Circular shift by two

@tinker yeah. It’s either an incredibly dumb reason or an incredibly scary reason. Incredibly dumb is more likely than it once was, but we still can’t rule out incredibly scary.

@douglevin nope.

This is very unusual. Aside from the disruption- it closes a large metropolitan airport for 10 days- no advance notice was given. So this isn’t for some planned event or operation.

@ben yeah, almost definitely not that. This was sudden and closes a large civil airport.

Fort Bliss / Biggs Army Airfield is within the restricted area, which may or may not be related.

FAA just announced a 10 day emergency temporary restricted area for a 10 mile radius around El Paso. No flights are permitted from ground level to 18000 feet, grounding all flights to/from the El Paso airport (KELP).

Designed as “national defense airspace”, with “deadly force authorized if aircraft determined to pose a security threat”.

No reason given

@TheTravelingPilgrim I really like the system. Expensive, but extremely flexible. The raw files are huge; over 100MB.

I have mixed feelings about Le Corbusier's architecture (to say nothing of his urban planning philosophy - he clearly influenced Robert Moses), but I think the UN Secretariat building was one of his successes.

An aside: If you look at the full resolution version (downloadable on flickr), you can see the HF amateur radio antenna on the roof. Nerds are everywhere, even/especially at the UN. There's also a family taking a group picture on the street in front.

The UN Secretariat building was designed by an international team of architects (most notably Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer) and completed in 1950. It was the first important "International Style" modernist skyscraper in New York - exemplified here here by a simple, unadorned rectangle with reflective glass curtain walls on either side.

Glass box office buildings became almost cliche in mid-century NYC, but the UN remains unusual in being set apart in the skyline, uncrowded by neighbors.

Love them or hate them, mid-century rectangular glass curtain buildings like this are easy to dismiss as being "boring", but I think that misses something.

Reflections of the surroundings become part of the facade, which changes at different angles and throughout the day. I visited several times and made dozens of photos, all quite different, before I settled on this one, and there are infinitely many photos others could make, all unique. (Similar to the new World Trade Center in this regard).

Captured with the Phase One Achromatic back and the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 HR-Digaron lens, with the back shifted down 8.5mm to maintain the building's geometry. I brought out contrast in the sky with a polarizer, but otherwise used no color contrast filtration. The camera was positioned across the avenue about 10 meters up from the plaza level (at the bottom of the "canyon" of the skyline reflected in the bottom center of the building).

United Nations Secretariat Building, NYC, 2021

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