Mini-Challenge #200 - Architecture

EaracheEarache Registered Users Posts: 3,533 Major grins
edited February 5, 2015 in The Dgrin Challenges
Greetings Mini-Challengers… my theme for #200 (a nice round number!) is – Architecture.
Please feel free to post images of human constructions large and small… buildings, bridges, towers, monuments, or ????
This could include all or portions – details and adornments – day or night – straightforward or abstract… please surprise me with something unexpected, unusual, or exotic.
I'd like architectural elements to be prominent in the images, but as always, I’m pretty flexible and I will enjoy seeing all your individual interpretations. TIA for playing, and have fun!
Eric


This challenge will run for 2 weeks - from today until Tuesday, February 3 @ 9:00pm PST-USA.



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Examples:

Abstract
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Old Fashioned
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At Night
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Details (also unusual!)
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Unusual
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Eric ~ Smugmug

Comments

  • CavalierCavalier Registered Users Posts: 3,030 Major grins
    edited January 20, 2015
    Great theme, Eric. I love architecture and I'm looking forward to seeing the entries on this one. Here are some of mine (I couldn't stick to just three ne_nau.gif)

    1 - Sea Ranch Chapel - Northern California Coast.

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    2 - Old Homestead - Indian Gulch Ghost town outside of Hornitos, Ca.

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    3 - Adobe Doors, Hornitos, Ca

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    4 - Bee Hive Bird House - Mariposa, Ca.

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  • travelwaystravelways Registered Users Posts: 7,854 Major grins
    edited January 20, 2015
    Oh, how beautiful! This is one of my favorite subjects - I wish I had less photos to choose from :)
    Tatiana - Seeing the world through my camera
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  • JAGJAG Super Moderators Posts: 9,088 moderator
    edited January 20, 2015
    this is going to be a fun one! Please do not consider mine in the judging, but here are my examples!

    1. Colosseum
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    2. Hatcher's Pass Mining buildings (built circa 1906)
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    3. Temple Mount, Jerusalem, Israel
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  • kdotaylorkdotaylor Registered Users Posts: 1,274 Major grins
    edited January 22, 2015
    Fun challenge!
    Here are mine:

    #1 Santa Fe, NM
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    #2 Lanesboro, MN
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    #3 St Augustine, FL
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    Kate
    www.katetaylor.smugmug.com
    "You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." Mark Twain
  • travelwaystravelways Registered Users Posts: 7,854 Major grins
    edited January 22, 2015
    1.Industrial structures in Ontario, Canada

    Industrial structure, Orillia, Ontario  - Some colors in the still too gray beginning of spring, here...

    2. Cathedral in Atigua, Guatemala

    Cathedral of Antigua, Guatemala

    3. New vs. Old in Ottawa, Canada

    Ottawa Attractions
    Tatiana - Seeing the world through my camera
    TravelwaysPhotos.com ...... Facebook
    VegasGreatAttractions.com
    Travelways.com
  • catcher33catcher33 Registered Users Posts: 81 Big grins
    edited January 25, 2015
    philly
    1
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    2
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    3
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  • grandmaRgrandmaR Registered Users Posts: 1,942 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2015
    I decided when I first read this challenge that I should enter this photo of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in Wales. It was very hard to get a good angle on this. This was the best I could do

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    Then I thought I should have at least one lighthouse as that is one of my favorite things to take photos of. So this is the New Cape Henry Lighthouse

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    I couldn't think of what to have as a third entry. So as perhaps a placeholder - this was one of the photos on my first roll of film, taken in the winter of 1958-1959 with the camera my father gave me for my 20th birthday

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    “"..an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered." G.K. Chesterton”
  • travelwaystravelways Registered Users Posts: 7,854 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2015
    I think that this is the greatest of the 3 - beautiful!
    grandmaR wrote: »

    I couldn't think of what to have as a third entry. So as perhaps a placeholder - this was one of the photos on my first roll of film, taken in the winter of 1958-1959 with the camera my father gave me for my 20th birthday

    0119-00660018%25206-3-2009%252010-23-30%2520PM.JPG
    Tatiana - Seeing the world through my camera
    TravelwaysPhotos.com ...... Facebook
    VegasGreatAttractions.com
    Travelways.com
  • grandmaRgrandmaR Registered Users Posts: 1,942 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2015
    Thank you - it was taken on Kodachrome slide film with a Kodak Retina Reflex camera.
    “"..an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered." G.K. Chesterton”
  • redleashredleash Registered Users Posts: 3,840 Major grins
    edited February 2, 2015
    Good topic, Eric! Here are mine:

    1. Acadia NP Carriage Bridge - Nikon D80, Tamron 17-50 f2.8
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    2. Abandoned grain storage facility, San Antonio - Nikon D80, Nikon 70-300 f4.5-5.6
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    3. AT&T Building, San Antonio - Nikon D80, Sigma 10-20 f4.0-5.6
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    "But ask the animals, and they will teach you." (Job 12:7)

    Lauren Blackwell
    www.redleashphoto.com
  • CHANDLERJACHANDLERJA Registered Users Posts: 400 Major grins
    edited February 3, 2015
    1. New Orleans

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    2. Dusk

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    3. Low

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    Jeromy
    http://snaptx.smugmug.com/
    Light is everything in life and photography.
  • DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited February 3, 2015
    1) Bancroft Tower, Worcester, MA

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    2) Carr House, RISD, Waterman Street side.

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    3) Garden side Higgins House, WPI

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    Don
    Don Ricklin - Gear: Canon EOS 5D Mark III, was Pentax K7
    'I was older then, I'm younger than that now' ....
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  • EaracheEarache Registered Users Posts: 3,533 Major grins
    edited February 4, 2015
    Mini #200 is now closed.

    There's some interesting, fun, and surprising subjects here... I'll enjoy picking my favorites - results tomorrow.
    Thanks to y'all who posted images.
    Eric ~ Smugmug
  • photoqphotoq Registered Users Posts: 2 Beginner grinner
    edited February 5, 2015
    United Steelworkers Building
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    United Steelworkers Building in Pittsburgh, PA
  • JAGJAG Super Moderators Posts: 9,088 moderator
    edited February 5, 2015
    wonderful image photoq. Although you were late in submitting it. A new challenge will be up shortly. Welcome to Dgrin!
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