Schuylkill Co-Generation Plant and Arsenal Bridge, Philadelphia, PA, 2018.
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Schuylkill Co-Generation Plant and Arsenal Bridge, Philadelphia, PA, 2018.
Too many pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/42660696454
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Schuylkill Co-Generation Plant and Arsenal Bridge, Philadelphia, PA, 2018.
Too many pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/42660696454
This was captured with the Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 HR Digaron-W lens and the Phase One IQ3-100 back. A bit of vertical shift was used to keep everything straight. A 1/2 sec exposure provided just the right amount of motion blur for the passing train.
The power plant generates electricity (now oil fired, converted from coal) as well as steam for Philly's Center City steam loop. The rail bridge extends the former Pennsylvania Railroad's "High Line" into south Philly's Greenwich rail yard.
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This was captured with the Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 HR Digaron-W lens and the Phase One IQ3-100 back. A bit of vertical shift was used to keep everything straight. A 1/2 sec exposure provided just the right amount of motion blur for the passing train.
The power plant generates electricity (now oil fired, converted from coal) as well as steam for Philly's Center City steam loop. The rail bridge extends the former Pennsylvania Railroad's "High Line" into south Philly's Greenwich rail yard.
I shot several versions of this, with exposures that kept the moving train sharp or blurred it to varying degrees. I think this was the most successful attempt, with the train blurred enough to suggest motion, but not so much that it's unrecognizable.
Motion can be a central part of a still photograph.
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I shot several versions of this, with exposures that kept the moving train sharp or blurred it to varying degrees. I think this was the most successful attempt, with the train blurred enough to suggest motion, but not so much that it's unrecognizable.
Motion can be a central part of a still photograph.
Power plants are often regarded as utilitarian eyesores, and are rarely (generally only under public pressure) built to look beautiful or interesting, (London's Battersea Power Station was a notable exception). Generally, like here, any beauty to be found is accidental, a direct consequence of interesting form happening to follow from function.
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Power plants are often regarded as utilitarian eyesores, and are rarely (generally only under public pressure) built to look beautiful or interesting, (London's Battersea Power Station was a notable exception). Generally, like here, any beauty to be found is accidental, a direct consequence of interesting form happening to follow from function.
Arguably, given the health and environmental effects of things like power plants, perhaps they *should* be ugly. But ugliness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
In any case, if you like this kind of stuff, let me strongly recommend the work of Hilla and Bernd Becher. https://fraenkelgallery.com/artists/bernd-and-hilla-becher
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Power plants are often regarded as utilitarian eyesores, and are rarely (generally only under public pressure) built to look beautiful or interesting, (London's Battersea Power Station was a notable exception). Generally, like here, any beauty to be found is accidental, a direct consequence of interesting form happening to follow from function.
@mattblaze the power plant should thank you then because this photo is particularly beautiful. Utilitarian but not an eyesore, it gives it the look of a steamboat against the cloudy sky.
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Arguably, given the health and environmental effects of things like power plants, perhaps they *should* be ugly. But ugliness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
In any case, if you like this kind of stuff, let me strongly recommend the work of Hilla and Bernd Becher. https://fraenkelgallery.com/artists/bernd-and-hilla-becher
@mattblaze The small house between the pipes is telling me something
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undefined oblomov@sociale.network shared this topic
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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Reinventare la difesa del Fediverse. Affrontare il problema più grande degli effetti di rete: portare le persone qui.
Ecco il problema: non siamo ancora molto bravi a sostenere le persone perché dovrebbero unirsi a noi, o ad aiutare gruppi di persone a migrare qui. Il Fediverse, purtroppo, ha una sorta di problema con Linux. L'advocacy del Fediverse assomiglia spesso all'advocacy degli utenti Linux e, oltre ad attrarre qualche entusiasmo, spesso non funziona bene.
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Social Debug: di comizi virtuali, fuffaguru (e social guru) e fake digitali
Il fuffaguru-convinto è una figura che crede in quello che dice, che “non parla, slogheggia”, usa dei termini che capiscono solo loro - come il gergo che si usa in *ogni* ambiente tbh ;) - e hanno ragionamenti che fanno solo loro.
https://signorina37.substack.com/p/social-debug-di-comizi-virtuali-fuffaguru
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@mathewi or a marketing stint
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@mray Encryption is being explored by a FEP
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Ma #TeleMonteCarlo e i suoi #giochi interattivi in #TV ?
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@katzenberger Fair enough, I'm not arguing against that. It's just that encryption isn't easy and will take a long time. I'm using this as a 'research foil' to understand why people use Signal vs encrypted Mastodon PMs.
I totally get that people just want safety baked into everything, I'm not against that in any way. But it is very hard to do well.
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@scottjenson Don't really need encryption just for the DM edge-case. I only need to know where/for who exactly my message will pop up automatically, though.
Suggesting "encryption" exists in mastodon, how can one make sure it is interoperable with ActivityPub AND nobody gets it wrong and falsely assumes encryption is omnipresent, when it is absolutely not.
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@mapache Yes, I know! ;-) I'm not saying no I'm exploring when (as encryption will take longer than UX improvements
