Stone landscape

The central element of Marabar is a rectangular reflecting pool, 60 feet long by 6 feet wide, surrounded by five mahogany color granite boulders, each deliberately formed by fracturing the stone along natural cleft lines. Three of these stones have one sheared and highly polished face; these planes mirror one another across the pool. It appears as if these three huge rocks had been one monolithic form, dramatically separated, with the body of water as a consequence of this division…

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More silk-sea and long-exposure experiments. I went down to the docks, trying to get some minimal landscape photos. But unfortunately, and strangely the Icelandic winter darkness was to bright for a decent long exposure, even with my -2 stop polarizing filter. So instead of giving in and go home, I decided to point the camera downwards, at the waves braking on the rocks. This one, captured in 4 seconds, shows quite well the transition of the sea, crawling through the stones in a misty form…

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Image 18 of 50 from gallery of Private Villa in Ungasan / Rafael Miranti Architects. Photograph by Putu Adi Widiantara

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In a small village in the county of Cameros, La Rioja we find a very spe­cial house. Unlike the structures near­by, this house is defined by a monumen­tal, five-story high façade, composed of thick, stone walls and symmetrical openings. Each floor, which has the same distribution and dimensions, is connect­ed by a spiraling wooden staircase end­ing in a skylight that brings light in. On the ground floor of house, next to the village’s ravine, we find a narrow and long space, formerly used…

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