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@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 / Briggs 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”.

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@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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@LapTop006 This was shot with a 90mm, which is about the angle of view of a 60mm on 35mm full frame sensor.

The Capitol is *huge*, but it's not got a lot of frames of reference near it that let you get a sense of its true size. This was shot from fairly close by, just across a small reflecting pool, so it required a fairly wide angle.

@Ehay2k @heidilifeldman Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me 2000 times, I'm Susan Collins.

@briankrebs As I testified last year: https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Blaze-Written-Testimony.pdf

@briankrebs One again, I'd be remiss in not mentioning that there's a straight line between the CALEA telecom wiretap capability mandates and Salt Typhoon.

@virtualbri Right. This would require using a "graduated" ND filter that darkens the top of the frame. They're usually used with a 100mm wide rectangular filter holder; you slide the filter up or down in the holder to move the transition line.

I kick myself for not using one here.

I'm mostly satisfied with this photo, but if I were to do it again, I'd probably use a one or two stop ND grad to even out the brightness of the dome with the main part of the building.

I post this mostly as a periodic reminder to myself that it wasn't that long ago that the rule of law prevailed. I hope it will again in my lifetime.

Captured with the Phase One IQ4-150 digital back, Rodenstock 90mm/5.6 HR-Digaron lens (@ f/6.3) and about 10mm of vertical shift to maintain geometry.

Just over five years ago, a group of insurrectionist losers sacked this building in an attempt to overthrow the US Government and prevent the transfer of power to a newly elected president. They got frighteningly close to succeeding.

This photo was made about six months later; some of the physical damage from the attack remains visible here.

US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, 2021.

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