Paul, it's a nice and beautifully rendered pic, but a bit creepy--everything is so empty, and so clean, that it reminds me of the computer-generated views that architects produce.
Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Wed, 4/29/09, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote: > While shooting virtual tours for real estate, I sometimes > come across unusual buildings. I shot tours at a building in > downtown Detroit the other day that surprised me. Built in > 1957, it struck me as having been well ahead of its time. > The architectural style looked familiar, so I checked when I > got home and discovered that it was designed by Mies van der > Rohe and is on the National Register of Historic Places. The > exterior of the 20 story apartment building is mostly > windows, framed in metal. The lobby is all black marble. > It's in excellent condition and 95% occupied. The > building is situated at the eastern edge of downtown, and > its framed by a nice little park. The attached pic is the > view from a 15th floor apartment. You can see the GM > building (formerly the Renaissance Center and quite possibly > soon to be something else) at the far left. Ford Field, the > domed stadium, is at the far right. The shot is a composite > of three frames from the pano I shot in this apartment. > They're 16mm verticals, f13 @ about 1/4 second, ISO 200. > Click to make it larger: > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9074706 > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.