Uploads from Chimay Bleue, tagged grey, with geodata

Strata

nobody@flickr.com (Chimay Bleue) — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 06:25:16 -0700

Architects: Perkins & Company (2008-2009)
Developer: Hanover Company
Location: San Diego (East Village), CA

Originally designed as condos but converted to apartments before construction completion, when the real estate crisis hit. I've always really liked this building. It's one of the more striking in the downtown core - especially in the morning with the sun reflecting off the metal skin of the curved part of the tower.

Una notte a Venezia

nobody@flickr.com (Chimay Bleue) — Wed, 02 May 2012 08:20:25 -0700

Chimay Bleue posted a photo:

This is from a trip I took there in April of 2009. I was just looking at old photos and decided to do some more processing on this one.

Sydney Opera House

nobody@flickr.com (Chimay Bleue) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:40:52 -0800

Chimay Bleue posted a photo:

Architect: Jørn Utzon (1957-73)
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia

OK, another shot of the Opera. You'll probably get tired of seeing this building long before I run out of photos of it.

Humanities and Social Sciences

nobody@flickr.com (Chimay Bleue) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 10:10:58 -0700

Chimay Bleue posted a photo:

Architect: Richard George Wheeler Associates (1969)
Location: UCSD Muir College

Shot hand-held using the Canon 5DMkII and TS-E 17mm.

Salk Institute

nobody@flickr.com (Chimay Bleue) — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:43:17 -0700

Chimay Bleue posted a photo:

Architect: Louis Kahn (1965)
Location: San DIego (La Jolla), CA

A dark, grey day on the bluff...

Salk Institute

nobody@flickr.com (Chimay Bleue) — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:39:46 -0700

Chimay Bleue posted a photo:

Architect: Louis Kahn (1965)
Location: San DIego (La Jolla), CA

A dark, grey day on the bluff...

Salk Institute

nobody@flickr.com (Chimay Bleue) — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 07:41:31 -0700

Chimay Bleue posted a photo:

Architect: Louis Kahn (1965)
Location: San DIego (La Jolla), CA

i was driving by so stopped for a couple of photos...

La Maison Louis Carré / Louis Carré Residence

nobody@flickr.com (Chimay Bleue) — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:37:03 -0700

Chimay Bleue posted a photo:

Architect: Alvar Aalto (1957)
Location: Bazoches-sur-Guyonne

Louis Carré (1897-1977) was an important French art dealer and gallery owner whose was artists included Fernand Leger and Pablo Picasso. Louis Carré commissioned the house from Alvar Aalto in 1956 as both his private residence and an art gallery, and he and his wife moved there in 1959. The house became a center of French cultural activity throughout the 60s, hosting glamorous parties with the artistic elite. Jean Monnet, the father of the European Union, was his close friend and lived next door.

The house is beautifully designed, but it's also remarkable in that it has remained in its original state, all the way down to the furniture, clothes in the closets, and personal possessions of the original owners. After Carré's death, his widow continued to live there and didn't touch any of her husband's possessions. When she died, the house went to the Alvar Aalto foundation.

Despite being close to Paris, the house is very much in the countryside, surrounded by quaint, medieval villages.

La Maison Louis Carré / Louis Carré Residence

nobody@flickr.com (Chimay Bleue) — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:08:31 -0700

Chimay Bleue posted a photo:

kangaroo

nobody@flickr.com (Chimay Bleue) — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:20:03 -0800

Chimay Bleue posted a photo:

I couldn't go to Australia and NOT take a picture of a kangaroo, could I?

This guy was in a nature reserve on Kangaroo Island.

I didn't have a flash and wanted to shoot wide open anyway, so I used a glossy sheet from a brochure I was carrying to get a little catchlight in the eyes... It sorta worked... kinda...