Canon EOS 5D Mark II
ƒ/3.5
16 mm
1/50
1000
Puzzle Series: What is this, or what do you want it to be?
21 responses to “What’s That? (85)”
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I don’t know what this is, but the Mark II is just insane. I can’t believe the detail at original size!
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wow! Solved within 3 minutes of posting! A new record. And Shamagu got the last two in a row.
Hangar 2 at NASA Ames, home of the Zeppelin NT. They used wood in WW II because steel was too valuable for other uses.
Catwalks overhead are dizzying.
I agree Ken! Freaks me out from time to time. 16mm handheld shot.
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But if you did not tell us that someone found the answer, we all could get a chance to play the game. Darn!
The key to making these puzzles work is to give everyone a chance to find the photo in the first place and then to try to guess at least once. Given that we are all in different time zones and especially that we all have lives to live, records do not count. To make this puzzle series interesting, you need to give us a chance and stay mum for as long as possible.
At first glance, I was going to write for fun that I wanted it to be Noah’s Ark.
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I was in that hangar once and was blown away by the wooden mega-structure – and the only thing my colleague could do was muse about whether they had termite insurance.
The detail in this instance is I think primarily a factor of the lens quality rather than the camera – but what the camera contributed here was the ability to shoot at 1000 ISO and not a hint of noise in the image when viewed full size. Which of course allowed the 1/50 sec exposure which in turn allowed hand-held… Oh indeed – fine camera of which I am most covetous.
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yeah, what Mimosa says, but then again even if there was a 24 hour comment embargo, it wouldn’t solve the timezone issue.
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I opened that image at full size (seeing only a small portion of the top on my display) and used the mouse scroll wheel to scroll down. Somehow the steps of the scroll wheel and the spacing of the levels worked out exactly that it didn’t look like was scrolling but rather it looked like it was animated as I was falling ever closer to the wall. Probably an unintended co-incidence. Basically each click of the mouse wheel took me to another part of the wall that was a nearly identical repeat of the previous level but a little closer to the camera lens. Nifty.
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The ‘effect’ is worth mentioning again since I saw it on a different computer and it was equally astounding.
You open the original size:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/3472846292/sizes/o/
then scroll to the right so you see the middle / top of the image, then use the mouse scroll wheel (if you have one!) to scroll down and the effect is like falling into the image. -
Its incredible that the structure has been standing since WW2 and either not had structural issues or has been maintained.
Over here in the UK. I’ve seen some WW2 Spitfire hangers now being used for industrial or agricultural which are still in pretty good shape. Unlike the wood used here, the hangers used the thinnest steel that could be used to conserve usage and were designed by aero engineers as if they were building a spar structure for a wing.This a super shot, an instant fave.. Have you any more interiors to give some more scale??
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