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NoByNe: Empire State Views I (86th Fl Observation Deck)
102nd Fl "Enclosed & Under Reconstruction" Observation Deck
Wow, you're in Manhattan! Photo 2 is stunning, with its abstract pattern of buildings in muted colors. No 5 really shows that New York City is really the mother of them all. No 12 is fantastic - I love how the tall buildings that fill out most of the image, create three dimensional space, and then, in the upper left edge there's the busiest, almost 2D pattern of totally dwarfed skyscrapers.
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NoByNe: George Washington Bridge/New Jersey Palisides/Hudson River/Manhattan Skyscrapers
Rockefeller Center
The sixth photo in your Rockefeller Center series is breathtaking, majestic. I can see how the architects of our Embarcadero Center in San Francisco were more than inspired by this original classic, of which our building complex is but a pale imitation. And that's coming from me, who likes the Embarcadero Center's skyscraper.
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North By Northeast (P.S. New York "Amtrak-bound" people are an exciting experience. Chicago is spectacular even in high winds that took the hat off my head and zero visibility from 103th floor of Willis Tower's Skydeck...but avoid buying the $30 supposedly water-proof Skydeck backpack which lasted one day (for me), and the guy (he's from Queens, divorced with ex in Chicago) I was sitting with on a crowded Amtrak from Chicago to NY and I had the biggest laugh about my silly spur of the moment for something I didn't need "made in another country" purchase (or so we figured the useless darn thing had to be made somewhere other than breath-taking Chicago where I've seen the best looking skyscrapers than anywhere else.) ...NYC really doesn't sleep and is 10X more intense than San Francisco...)
The first three photos of San Francisco's skyline are breathtaking. They remind me again that I'm so happy to live here. We take it for granted in our every day routine, but then when I see your photos, my eyes are opened again to the beauty around us.
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(Writers Dream Cottages...")
Beautiful photos of the sleepy town of Niles. I didn't know it existed before you showed it to us here. It's like another world. I especially love the photo No 10, with its two different shades of green, a bright blue sky, shining like jewels in a superb composition of rust and red and brown. The white window frame corresponds beautifully with the white cloud. Lovely!
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Photo No 10 is absolutely STUNNING, in it's juxtaposition of the barren, almost windowless concrete tower, and the many storied, many windowed apartment towers. And in contrast, we have a few Victorians. The photo works as an abstract color composition as well.
I also like the otherworldly quality of the "pods" on the terrace of the Art Institute.
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I really like the third photo. There is something magisterial about the giant tree, of which we only see enough to realize how massive and old it must be. The young filigree trees create a beautiful backdrop tho the massive trunk which take up most of the photo.
The last photo is very sad, but definitely a part of many big cities of the Urban Planet - a part we, the more fortunate, usually go out of our way to avoid. There is something very moving about this home for a day, which has been arranged with obvious care.
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10-13.MARCH
Thanks for the lovely photographs! I live in the Sunset, and this residential area, Golden Gate Heights, with the aptly named Grand View Park on top of the hill, to me, is the jewel of the Sunset. I'm glad to see it represented here at Urban Planet. The view from Grand View Park is truly jaw dropping. You see the whole length of the City, and the panorama of the Pacific Ocean is so wide, that it is curved, following the curve of the earth (or am I imagining it?).
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Wonderful photos. You show the pigeon from a very unusual angle, and its pattern reminds me of a NASA photo of a hurricane. Photo No 3 is just lovely. It perfectly shows the hilly topography of our city, as well as the different mini-climate zones. Some areas may be covered in fog, while other, close-by areas are lit with sunshine. Also, the photo captures the different architectural styles of the city. Photo No 4 is my favorite. Fractions of mostly windowless house walls, utility poles, public announcement speakers/sirens, smoke stacks, create a wonderful abstract composition of shapes, gentle colors, patterns, giving a distinct urban flavor, run-down, decrepit even, and yet, when seen through your eyes, beautiful.
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I like how the overlapping geometric shapes in photo 3 create three dimensional space.
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Photo 1: I like the composition the dark abstract rectangular and triangular shapes create.
Photo 5: It's almost as if you captured the passing of time in one photograph, rather than a moving video. This is achieved by the repetition of identical objects, the trees, and the pathway, which almost look like frames in a film. At the beginning is the person in the foreground, and a little while later, this same person walks in the distance.
Photo 6: The apparition of the trees in bloom looks magical, against the bare wood that surrounds them.
Photo 7: I like the juxtaposition of the religious symbols of East and West, the pagoda and the church steeple.
Great Work!
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Absolutely stunning composition and strong colors. The highrises are almost like a dark sky just before a thunder and lightning storm, while the last rays of the sun hit the buildings in the foreground, just before the giant storm will cloak everything in darkness.
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Those are fantastic pictures, above all the first!
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Those are really lovely. Almost like lifeless creatures that are washed ashore. You know I like the last one, like a petrified angel.
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Beautiful contrast between the massive, monumental (building) and the tender, filigree (trees)
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I like it. It shows the Urban total chaos. The only thing that's uncluttered is the street. And even that has steps... which make the police cars fly when they chase you...
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Barren trees dance a frantic dance, in worship of the iconic turquoise tower. The leaves they have tithed, congregate into an amorphous green mass, which rises from below, draws closer, curious, finally caresses the triumphant symbol of architecture that is destined to replace their warm tones and natural shapes with shrill colors and an unforgiving, monotonous grid.
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I love those old concrete banisters and walls from the 1920s, when architects and artisans were still thinking of the people who would actually use and look at these every day. Although they're just concrete, they're built with love, yoiu know, they could have just put a cheapo concrete wll there.
Also, in San Francisco neighborhoods that were developed in the 1920s, you often see concrete retaining walls and staircases with attractive decorative lines, sometimes with concrete benches set into the walls, so a person could take a rest while climbing the steep stairs (as in Sanchez Steps). I just love those little details.
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That's one of your most beautiful, Zahc! It's almost as if the birds were standing on the surface of a lake, strewn with pieces of ice, and the reflections of the birds are not on the surface, but strange creatures hovering in the water, under the surface, below each bird...
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