Creative Photography

[briantrumpet]

My tatty attempts today to be vaguely creative with spring, backgrounding my companions on the walk.

 

[rjsterry]

Liverpool Street Station again.

 

[rjsterry]

By the way, here's that building I took a shot from beneath the other day. You can see fairly clearly how it bridges the railway (beneath the magnolias).

 

[Pblakeney]

A phone shot from today. Was nice to get blue skies and sunshine. It was even better to go for a cycle later!

 

[briantrumpet]

By the way, here's that building I took a shot from beneath the other day. You can see fairly clearly how it bridges the railway (beneath the magnolias).
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Is that metal arch actually properly structural/necessary, or is it (half?) decorative?

 

[briantrumpet]

Should have posted this in this thread - always find the auto focus choice on tulips random/interesting. This was just a quick snap with the cheap phone. I think it might have worked equally well had the focus been on the stamen and the tips of the petals been out of focus.

 

[briantrumpet]

A phone shot from today. Was nice to get blue skies and sunshine. It was even better to go for a cycle later!

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Looking forward to a longer/warmer ride tomorrow with the camera... might even get the arms out, looking at the forecast.

 

[Pross]

Went out in the hope of catching the aurora which has been really strong tonight but all I got was 95% cloud cover with the few gaps being overhead or to the west.

 

[rjsterry]

Is that metal arch actually properly structural/necessary, or is it (half?) decorative?

It is structural, but is expressed on the facade for aesthetic reasons. I can remember it being used as an example in my first year structures lectures The whole thing sits on two massive granite-faced plinths - one on either side.

 

[briantrumpet]

It is structural, but is expressed on the facade for aesthetic reasons. I can remember it being used as an example in my first year structures lectures The whole thing sits on two massive granite-faced plinths - one on either side.

I'm assuming it's a kind of suspension bridge arch, with the two diagonal struts being under tension, and there's another one on the other side?

 

[rjsterry]

More info here.
https://www.istructe.org/journal/vo.../broadgate-exchange-house-structural-systems/

And here
https://www.som.com/projects/broadgate-exchange-house/

 

[briantrumpet]

Thanks RJS.

 

[rualexander]

Lunchtime at Melgarve

 

[Way-Out-West]

 

[Way-Out-West]

Summer arrived (for a day) down at the estuary.