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Nathan Phillips Square this snowy evening.

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Window abstracts at 6 King Street East.

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6 King Street East, Toronto

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Sherfy Barn, Emmitsburg Pike, Gettysburg

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Names of Pennsylvania Civil War soldiers, Pennsylvania Monument, Cemetery Ridge, Gettysburg

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Finished version of the Gehry building in Las Vegas, April, 2011
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Vegas Pictures

Here are a bunch.  I'm pleased with the quality overall, given my recent lack of experience and the consumer lenses on the camera.  There certainly is a lot of stuff in Las Vegas.

 No cultural icon or era is safe at Caesars Palace

 The Bellagio

Lake, Bellagio

 Trumpets at Caesars

 
 Flowers #2

 Frank Gehry Building #1

  Frank Gehry Building #2

 Desert flowers

 Binion's

 Neon Gold

 Clark County Offices

 Reflection on the Strip

 Flowers #2

 Flowers #3

 Flamingo #2

 Flamingo #3

Gehry #3

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    Union Station, Chicago, 1988

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Window, Paros, 1986.  This was the day it started clicking for me in Greece.

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    Everything under control at the Bank of England, 1993.
    Kodak High-Speed Infrared

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Its been a long time, almost a year since I last posted a photo. Last Christmas (09), I scanned everything left from Greece, intending to finish all the Greek photos and post them by end of spring.  Two things happened to thwart my purpose.  First is I was sick enough through the spring, summer and fall that there was no energy for such persuits.  Second, I was unhappy with the scans and due to the first reason, unable and unwilling to re-scan.  Fortunately, I've had more energy since December.  Also, I figured out a better way to scan and work on the photos.  So here is the first of the last batch of Greek photos from 1986.

This one is taken on Paros.

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Cathedral of St. Nicholas, Mozhaisk, 1911
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

This is the eternal Russia. 

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    There isn't much to say about this photo.

Burj Dubai

      Charles Crowell/Bloomberg via NYT 

The Burj Dubai opens today.  It is by some distance the tallest building on earth.  Half as high again as the CN Tower.

Many commentators are calling the tower a symbol of arrogance, greed and an unsustainable  free-for-all era.  Some associate the building with vulgar oil money and uppity Arabs.  And we all know Dubai was built with what amounts to slave labour.

But I disagree with those that say its ugly.  IMHO, it is one of the most beautiful skyscrapers ever built.  Its really hard to make something so big look graceful, but it is graceful.

The comments about its opening also remind me of very similar statements made about the Empire State Building.  It was started at the end of the roaring 20s, but not completed until well into the depression.  Some said the building would never fill, that it would be a white elephant, a lesson on hubris.  Eventually, it did ok.  I’m hoping the Burj will also eventually do ok.

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    Wall, Paros, Greece, 1986
    Kodak High Speed Infrared

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    Stairs and door, Sifnos, Greece, 1986
    Kodak High-Speed Infrared

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    Wall, Sifnos, Greece, 1986
    Kodak High-Speed Infrared

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    Sifnos, Greece, 1986
Kodak High-Speed Infrared

Enough with the appetizers, the Greek photos are the main course.

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Columns, US Supreme Court, Washington DC, April 1995