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A bus exchange viewed from "inside". There is a large hole in the concrete roof through whcih several trees are growing. The roof is supported by three cylindrical structures, clad in coloured glass.

A moment of quiet in what was (for me) a hectic day.

🗺️: Schaan, 🇱🇮.

#Liechtenstein #photography #photo #architecture

A massive tower made mostly of steel, flanked by two other towers. The colours are desaturated because it's an infrared photo.

A much more modestly-sized tower mostly clad in glass… …but it's more of an arch shape than a monolith. You can see the sky and another skyscraper through the "arch" of the tower.

Somehow, these towers almost look like a lock and a key for each other at this angle, even if the scale is entirely off.

#photography #architecture #tower #skyscraper #pittsburgh #vancouver

A mirrorless camera with a zoom lens on it, the focus ring of the lens being in focus, and anything closer or nearer to the camera being out of focus. The mode dial, the bottom of the lens barrel, and the focus ring are bright blue instead of the sepia-tinted "black" of the rest of the camera.

Those blue parts look the exact same black as the black parts to the naked eye, by the way.

#photography #photo #infrared #infraredphotography

🗺️:
Whatcom County, WA, USA (Lummi; Nooksack)
Seattle, WA, USA (Duwamish)
Vancouver, BC, Canada (unceded Squamish; Musqueam; Tsleil-Waututh)
Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Shawnee; Lenape; Seneca)

Fields, a river, and a town beside the ocean in stark yellow and blue, seen from an airplane.

A retro-looking low-rise apartment with bowed balconies and windows made of glass tiles on the ground floor. There are yellow shrubs in front, including a dome-shaped tree.

A tall tower with wavy balconies and decorations on it, with a shorter tower in front of it to the right and a pale yellow tree in front of it to the left.

A skyline with quite a few skyscrapers, with orange-yellow trees, a river, and more orange-yellow vegetation in the foreground.

The red/blue channel swap trick with colour IR photos really produces pretty results — as long as there aren't any natural objects in the scene apart from the sky, water, and vegetation.

#photography #photo #infrared #architecture #aerial

Train tracks — two power rails, two running rails, and an induction strip — rushing by from the perspective of another train. in the background, a blurry building can be seen, with blue lights along its ground floor and windows above it. The whole space looks like it's underground.

From this angle, you can see at least four of the SkyTrain's five rails. Not seen here: this is multiple storeys under street level, and looks as if it is underground most of the time, but this is at the true ground level.

#photography #train #rail #city #SkyTrain

A contemporary train station seen from the window of the train on a sunny evening. The closer to the camera any given object is, the more severely it is tilted to the right.

If you look closely, you can see exactly how far the camera travelled in the 500μs it took to capture this exposure.

#photography #rollingshutter #rail #train #tgv

A small-ish high-rise with blue trees on top of it, framed by buildings in a yellowish grey and more blue trees.

A bus with a destination sign reading "SORRY.........." beside a luxury SUV, driving down a street lined with blue trees.

A walkway between two buildings lit in a drab yellow, surrounded by slightly blue-grey buildings, some of which have blue trees on top of them.

An out-of-focus supercar at a stop light, in a grey-looking urban environment with blue trees.

Normal City,

#photography #photo #infrared #infraredphotography #Vancouver

NB: I wasn't sure how best to, in the location description, convey that this is also on the lands of the Snohomish people. Where I live, "unceded (nation) land" usually applies; in this case, though, there is a treaty.

A ferry approaching (or departing from) a terminal just out of frame. It's dusk on a clear night, and the sky is a gradient from pale blue through yellow to pale pink. On the right side of the screen, there's a pier.

A ferry at a dock, with a pier and a railing crossing the bottom of the frame. The vegetation looks yellow and brown now, and the image generally has a grey colour cast to it. Lights that would normally be green or even white are bright blue.

Same ferry, same time of day, different portions of the electromagnetic spectrum.

🗺️ Mukilteo, Washington, USA.

#photography #photo #infrared #ocean #boat #ferry #Washington

A large number of motorcyclists on motorcycles, all lined up two across in a parade. The photo is overwhelmingly sepia and blue, with a lot of fabrics that might look black to the naked eye being blue due to their infrared reflectivity (whereas black paint mostly looks black in this photo). The bikers are in front of storefronts in a building typical of a dense part of town in urban Western Europe.

A photo taken right after a friend and I exited a pizzeria to the almost deafening roar of tens if not hundreds of motorcycles.

🗺️ Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

#infrared #infraredphotography #photography #motorcycle #Barcelona #photo

A view looking up from inside a circular courtyard in a Gothic-style Castle toward a cloudy sky, with the castle tower peeking above the far edge of the courtyard.

A view up toward a massive elongated, ovoid skylight, bisected by a wooden beam, framed by somewhat off-centre rings of wood panels for each floor of the atrium. The floor below is a glossy, polished, light hardwood. The sky through the skylight is cloudy.

An atrium made of tall, white metal beams which converge on a thin, long skylight, standing over a massive floor space. A bright sunny sky is shining through the skylight.

Symmetry.

In order:
• Bellver Castle, Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain
• University of Zurich Law Library, Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
• World Trade Center, New York City, New York, USA

#Palma #Mallorca #Spain #Zurich #Switzerland #NYC #architecture #photography #photo

A tight photo of many skyscrapers, including some contemporary fully-glazed towers, some older towers which are mostly stone or concrete, and a tall, cylindrical, open-air parkade on the right side.

Chicago (August 2023).

#Chicago #city #skyscrapers #architecture #buildings #photography #photo

Aurora against a hazy sky. One bright red band and one brighter green band, with some other red and green to the side. They are framed by tall evergreens and "small" mansions.

Red and green aurora in a cloudy sky, with mountains, distant lights, and the sea in the foreground.

Green aurora, with a bit of red, in a mostly clouded sky. In the centre of the frame, a large ferry passes through, its lights reflecting across the sea right to a rocky beach.

A sepia sky with fields of grey and pink amidst clouds. To the left, the underside of some evergreens is lit in stark blue.

Some photos from Tuesday's aurora. I expected the cloud cover to be either worse or better than what there ended up being, but I suppose, with enough editing, these ones turned out alright?

(Including an infrared photo!)

#aurora #auroraborealis #northernlights #infrared #photography #photo

For all that's deeply wrong about the economic and political realities of this city (and the country in which it developed) today — the natural setting is beautiful and the built form of it is at least visually striking.

While the setting I'm working on (and whatever narratives I make in that setting) won't focus much on Earth, I already know that the Lower Mainland, where I've lived for all my life so far, is going to be one major inspiration among others.

A major city's central business district in the midground, framed by conifers, in the foreground, an inlet and a small forest just in front of the city, and a vast expanse of lower-density city into the background with some secondary centres in the distance. There are mountains across the far background.

Downtown on an April afternoon.

#photography #photo #skyline #Vancouver #Canada #pnw #city

I figure an aurora photo on which I really pushed the contrast and saturation in post is fitting, given that the "main" project I'm planning on working toward is looking like it's going to be soft sci-fi (…or science fantasy, even?) in space!

A photo of aurora borealis from right above the photographer. Against a deep blue sky, rays of green, purple, magenta, and even pale olive radiate from the centre of an expanse of sky framed by conifers on the right and deciduous trees on the left, with more distant conifers along the bottom of the frame.

Going to kick off this screen name with a "side" hobby of mine that's effectively been my main thing for the past while: photography.

And to start: a photo I took during the May 10, 2025 geomagnetic storm.

#photography #space #aurora #northernlights #auroraborealis #spaceweather #astrophotography