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Challenge: Skylines (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Sigma DP2
Date: Jul 29, 2011
Date Uploaded: Jul 27, 2011

[Aug. 7th, 2011 09:48:44 PM]

The title was inspired by one of my favorite reads in recent years: Metropole, by Hungarian author Ferenc Karinthy. The story was written around 1970 and only recently translated into English. "A Kafkaesque tale of a hapless narrator stranded on the top floor of the figurative Tower of Babel" is how one Amazon.com reviewer sums it up. I can't describe it any better in any fewer words. It's a tedious thriller, as relevant today as ever.

Several months ago, I discovered this interesting patch of concrete near the Allegheny County Jail. It's under a bridge and poorly lit. Framing it was a challenge too. But I knew there was a stifling metropolis to be found in those accidental rusty patterns -- not unlike the one depicted in the story. I was happy that this challenge gave me the opportunity to get the image I'd had in mind for a while now.

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 08/09/2011 08:17:10 AM
.....I get it......farout.............
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 08/08/2011 10:28:29 AM
Brilliant!
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 08/08/2011 09:11:33 AM
you stole my brown!!!!
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 08/08/2011 12:17:45 AM
Exceptional! An entire Atlantis for us to discover.
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 08/07/2011 11:43:31 PM
great vision
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 08/07/2011 10:40:23 PM
I see Babellian Edifici everywhere herein. A comment on the current passe created by a highly evolved generation of financi viperi? - Sorry, I really wanted to express this in Hungarian. (I will try to get hold of Metropole; tedious thrillers have become quite the genre it seems).

How wonderful to settle something down that has been floating around in the head.
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 08/07/2011 08:41:15 PM
I love exploring. Thank you.
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 08/07/2011 08:05:23 PM
Wonderful stuff Brian. Congrats on the Sterling.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/07/2011 06:28:02 PM
What a joy to explore the world through your eyes, thank you for the cheap thrills.

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 08/07/2011 05:48:40 PM
Beautifully suggestive of layers of buildings.
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 08/06/2011 08:23:31 AM
Daring stuff, good for you.
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 08/03/2011 03:22:07 AM
I love the skylines in concrete here.
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