Posted by Twelvebit (Victoria, United States) on 12 September 2007 in Architecture.
There are a lot of tall buildings in Houston, with very small footprints, making them very narrow. If you built something this way out of blocks it would topple over. I don't think this style can be attributed solely to property prices; compared to other large cities, the prices in Houston just aren't that high. And this style of building is found not only in the downtown area, but on the periphery of the city as well. I think this style is a choice, initiated perhaps out of a desire to build something bigger than anything else already there, and perpetuated by a spirit of oneupmanship. So, maybe, if you stand back far enough, and merge all these buildings into a single plane, in silhouette, you get a bar graph measuring the egos of oil and energy company CEO's?
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Just a stunning shot!!!10/10
12 Sep 2007 4:14pm
@colinjones25: Thank you. I enjoy your use of hdr quite a bit.
Hey this is another wonderful image. Is this taken in HDR or your played with the curves in Photoshop. Stunning as previous commentator said.
12 Sep 2007 5:53pm
@Amir: Since you asked, I'll reveal my secret. This is processed with Photomatix. I wasn't satisfied with what I got from the hdr processing, yet the hdr image was a clear improvement over the flat shot --making the scene much closer to what I saw and what motivated me to take the shot in the first place. I originally left it at that and prepared several images for posting here. But every time I looked at them, especially on my uncalibrated laptop at work, I felt they were not quite right --having a sort of a washed out, flat, overexposed appearance. The solution to this I found was to copy the image as a new layer set to "multiply." Viola! Just what I was shooting for.
I like the composition very much, nice shot! I absolutely agree with the what you think:)
12 Sep 2007 9:07pm
@Bahar: Thank you, good to hear from you.
You've picked a great angle for this shot, it's amazing!
12 Sep 2007 10:23pm
@MaryB: Thank you. I took a couple of shots without the solar panel and felt something was missing, so I tried to find an angle that included enough of the panel surface to show what it is.
I am just going to quote Bahar above because I can't think of anything else to say. Well done!
13 Sep 2007 1:05am
@Bhavin: Thank you, and good luck in your university studies.
Cool cityscape! The architecture is impressive.
13 Sep 2007 4:17am
@Dave MacIntyre: Thank you. There are some very interesting buildings in Houston. One of the ones I found most interesting I didn't get the chance to shoot up close --a very large high-rise hotel that was closed and boarded up.
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