Photography thread

[BlackBart]

Salvador Dali's Homage to Newton, in Singapore:

These are cool, Matt. I like the slight grittiness of a b&w.

[gnalan]

That statue is creepy looking. Is it just as creepy looking in real life?

[matthew1]

It's huge in real life, almost 13 feet tall including the pedestal. Not creepy at all, calming to me in fact.

He was a fantastically interesting guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD

Here's one you can get for your place, if you can't make it to Singapore: https://www.artsper.com/us/contemporary ... urrealiste Not as large though.


Photo from Wikipedia:

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[gnalan]

Almost $35k
If I had that kind of money I'd rather build a nice 4 door 1959 Amazon.

[volvolugnut]

Ancient rock piles in Scotland.
volvolugnut

[BlackBart]

Wow, think of the time passed, and the unknown laborers.

[gnalan]

What they built is incredible. Laying all of those rocks, and making the formations they did, looks like a lot more work that what we have today to build with. I'm sure it'll last longer than the materials we have now though.

[matthew1]

My dad used to drink here when we lived in Nottingham in the 70s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye_Olde_Trip_to_Jerusalem

What blows my mind is the pyramids in Egypt used to have smooth surfaces. I think I've mentioned that before.

When the pyramids were originally finished, they were plated in and outer layer of white “casing stones”. These casing stones were cut with astounding precision to give a smooth slope to the pyramids, unlike how they appear today with the outer stones more or less forming very large “steps”.

The original casing stones were made of highly polished Tura limestone, meant to reflect the sun’s rays, and were accurate within 1/100th of an inch. All total, they were around five feet long, five feet high, and six feet deep and weighed around 15 metric tons each once the face angle was cut, being around 40 metric tons before that for the full block.

So what happened to these casing stones? Many of them were cut loose and carried off to be used on various other structures, such as when Bahri Sultan An-Nasir Nasir-ad-Din al-Hasan used the polished stones from the Great Pyramid in building mosques in Cairo, some of which are still standing with these stones still intact.

Most of the rest of the stones were worn away, being loosened by earthquakes and eventually creating piles of rubble around the pyramids, which have relatively recently been cleared away. Although, a few of the stones are still there, such as around the base of the Great Pyramid.

https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.ph ... ally-white

Comparatively and generally speaking, we build junk.

[abscate]

Ancient rock piles in Scotland.
volvolugnut

Every Sunday, used oil was auctioned off at that grill..

For you , luggy…..

[abscate]

One of rare Cartier-Bresson moments from a walk with Caitlin…

I miss you, Boo-Boo