The wind creates an intricate pattern in the sand at the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park on the Utah-Arizona stateline. The "Totem Pole" formation is in the background. The rhythmic pattern and contours formed by the wind are ever-changing. I took this photograph shortly before dusk when the lowering sun warmed the colors and shadows of the dunes graceful shape.
The "Totem Pole" is one of the great icons of Monument Valley. It has appeared in many TV programs, commercials, and Hollywood movies, especially in Westerns. The movie "The Eiger Sanction" (1975) was filmed here with Clint Eastwood and George Kennedy on top of the Totem Pole. It has been designated off-bounds to climbers ever since.
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Perched on a cliff on the central California coast, 50 miles south of San Francisco, the 115-foot Pigeon Point Lighthouse, one of the tallest lighthouses on the West Coast, has been guiding mariners since 1872. Its five-wick lard oil lamp, and first-order Fresnel (pronounced fra-nel) lens, was first lit at sunset, November 15, 1872. Although the original Fresnel lens is no longer in use, the lighthouse is still an active U.S. Coast Guard aid to navigation using an automated LED (light-emitting diode) beacon.
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Prisma is a photographic application that transforms normal photos into amazing images that attempt to replicate the human artistic touch. This phone-based app turns photographs into digital art in the style of drawings, watercolors, and paintings.
This two-acre plot of earth at the corner of El Camino Real ("The King's Highway") and Baldwin Street in San Mateo, California is perhaps the most venerable and historic site in the city. For over 150 years (since 1866) it has been the location of the Episcopal Church of St. Matthew, making it the oldest continually-used location in the city.
The devastating 1906 earthquake ruined the 1866 church and its fabulous bell tower. On May 15, 1910, the congregation buried a new cornerstone, containing all the artifacts from the original stone. Under the spiritual guidance of Reverend Neptune Blood William Gallaway, famed church architect Willis Polk engineered the new edifice. Considered one of the most beautiful houses of worship in California, it recalls the 11th century Stokes Poges Church in London, where Thomas Gray reportedly penned the poem "Elegy in a Country Churchyard."
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A subterranean walkway at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport is illuminated by Hayden's neon. The work, by Canadian artist Michael Hayden (1943- ), is entitled 'Sky's The Limit' and was constructed in 1987. Sometimes called "The Gershwin Tunnel", this somewhat bizarre walkway connects concourses B and C of Terminal 1, which is operated by United Airlines.
Truly a remarkable journey.......as one traverses the tunnel the sounds of Gershwin's 1924 musical composition of Rhapsody In Blue permeate the area. The sound is synchronized by computer with the color changes of the neon, for the final effect.
The effects in this photograph are the result of an image transformation application called "Prisma". Prisma transforms normal photos into amazing images that attempt to replicate the human artistic touch. This phone-based app turns photographs into digital art in the style of drawings, watercolors, and paintings.
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La Escaliers de Montmartre (The Stairs of Montmartre), Paris, by Hungarian-born French photographer, Jules (Gyula) Halasz (1899-1984), better known by his pseudonym 'Brassai'. Brassai liked to photograph so-called 'night people' (dancehall girls, drinkers, lovers, hoodlums) and scenes of Parisian streets, bridges and tourists.
This photograph was taken by Brassai in 1936 at the top of the funicular stairway at Rue Foyatier on Montmartre in the Montparnasse District of Paris. This unusual street was opened in 1867 and named after the sculptor Denis Foyatier (1793-1863). It is particularly representative of the atmosphere that can reign in the neighborhood on a winter morning. Images of rue Foyatier, and other staircases leading up la butte Montmartre, have become iconic images of Paris thanks to the work of Brassaï.
Seen on exhibit and photographed at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA).
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