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Battersea Power Station, London, UK, 2024 (cdn.masto.host)
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Battersea Power Station, London, UK, 2024.All the pixels, none of the gentrification, at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54#photography

A large industrial building with four prominent smokestacks at each corner, across a river at night.

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

@mattblaze great shot!

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    @mattblaze stunning!

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    [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (8 children)

    Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 Digaron-W (@ f/8), Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50), Cambo WRS 1200 camera (right shifted 20mm, vertically shifted 8mm).This composition fully exploited the image circle and edge sharpness of the lens. We're to the right of the power station, but to preserve the geometry of the river side facade, the camera was pointed straight ahead, parallel with that side of the building. The camera back was then shifted 20mm to move the building back into the composition.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    London's Battersea Power Station, built as two nearly-identical halves completed in 1935 and 1955, respectively, was originally a coal-fired electrical generating plant. It was decommissioned in 1983. After being idle for nearly 40 years, the plant has been re-developed as retail space and commercial offices, opened in 2022. Along with the Tate Modern, it gives London a second striking example of large-scale adaptive reuse of an obsolete, but still handsome, power station.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    The power station has long been an iconic landmark on the south bank of the Thames, distinctive for its four prominent smokestacks (two for each of its two separate generating facilities) and industrial art deco architecture. Perhaps most famously, it featured in the cover art for Pink Floyd's 1977 “Animals” album, with one of London's (sadly now extinct) giant flying pigs captured hovering near the smokestacks.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Posting a lot of stitched images lately. Fortunately, buildings generally stand still for long enough to do this.

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    • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    @mattblaze Not seeing the pig here …. Out of frame?

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