Photos Olympic Stadium

Was wandering around today and found myself at the Olympic Stadium.

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scorpion!

 

yea, was gonna say, is it supposed to look like a scorpian?

 

Dunno, maybe?

 

W0000T!!! Montreal Olympic Stadium!
Awesome picture ajack!

Fun fact:
Did you know that the tower base was made in concrete and the rest in metal (I'm not sure about the outside material thus..)
The thing is when they were building it at a light speed (24/7), the tower was starting to go IN the ground as it was too heavy, and apply too much pressure in one side...

Moreover, The tower is the is the world's tallest inclined structure.

Also did you know that the tower hold the stadium roof, yup it's made of cloth (well it's VERY thick and water/snow proof). The idea is that the tower can pull put the roof, all the way up in the tower, so that you have an open roof stadium...
As it might sound cool and all on paper... it's actually fails miserably to a point where the cloth create too much friction.. heat up.. and gets damages. Repairing a cloth roof is not cheap. So they keep it closed all the time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Le_Stade_Olympique_2.jpg

 

Looks a little phallic if you ask me. The whole area looks a little desolate, though, even as if it's still undergoing construction around the outside. Looks like bare concrete on the floors. Not very 'green'.

As for the actual image, #1 #2 and particularly #4 I like. #6 #7 and #8 are also interesting, though lack a little something.

 

I love 4-7, stunning!

 

The images of the stadium are nice. Did you use an HDR technique?

I love #9. I'm a sucker for black and white architecture, especially available light shots that look desolate. There's just something about the simplicity of that shot that sits well with me. I feel like I could lean back and just stare for a while. I'd count the bricks, read the signs, and admire the parallel lines.

Yeah, #9 is my favorite.

-monkey

 

Temple of Nod!

Looks like a very interesting place, will have to read up about it sometime. Some beautiful shots there.

 

Thats what I thought

 

Nice shots! I really like the one of the cctv cameras Could you perhaps create a 1920*1200 wallpaper of it? (Just give a surrounding of black if the crop doesn't fit.) Thanks! It will definitely go in my wallpaper rotation folder

 

#4 is my favorite. Great shot... what lens did you use?

 

nice shot

 

OleJ: Larger version here.

mAddict: Sigma 10-20 on a 10D.

 

Awesome! Thank you very much. I love it