House of the Temple, Washington, DC, 2023.

[mattblaze@federate.social]

House of the Temple, Washington, DC, 2023.

All the pixels, each of which has passed a series of spooky tests, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53288608886

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[mattblaze@federate.social]

Captured with the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W (@ f/6.3 lens, Phase One IQ4-150 back, and Phase One XT camera. Composite of two shifted images (+/- 12mm from center horizontally, -12mm vertically).

Officially, "House of the Temple, Headquarters of the Supreme Council, 33°, Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction, Washington DC". The local Masonic temple, museum, library, and, I'm told, a gift shop.

[mattblaze@federate.social]

This is a stitched composite of two captures made from the same position, using horizontal shift movements to get a wider field of view on either side. This was really the only way to capture this building from in front of a tree that would otherwise have obstructed the facade, while also keeping its geometry undistorted. The final result is roughly the angle of view of a 14mm lens (in 35mm full frame terms), with a total of about 190 megapixels in the combined frame.

[mattblaze@federate.social]

I chose the 32mm Rodenstock with stitching here. I could have just barely squeezed this into a single frame with the wider-angle 23mm, except that the 23 doesn't have a large enough image circle to accommodate the vertical shift needed to keep the vertical lines from converging. The 32 has a much larger image circle, and so stitching with it yields a wider angle of view than I could obtain with the 23 (which allows only much more limited movements). More pixels this way, too.

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

@mattblaze LOL I dare you to walk over there and take a photo today. 🤪

[mattblaze@federate.social]

@ai6yr No snowshoes, so I'll pass.

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

@mattblaze 😂

[billysmith@social.coop]

@mattblaze

Well-taken picture. :D

When I looked at the picture, I thought that the architecture looked familiar, but as it's a masonic temple, this is why. :D

All of the buildings designed by the people working within that mystery school use identical proportioning. :D

It's the same philosophical school that translates the Tree Of Life from the Qabbalah into the proprotional layout of cathedrals. :D

The spot where you took the picture from will match within their plan. :D

Chewy. :D