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Roofscape - Marin Civic Center


cris benton

This photograph and most of the others I have posted on Photo.net are taken from kite-lofted cameras. A kite, unseen in the image, supports a small, radio-controlled cradle that holds the camera. I can position the camera by walking around and/or letting out or retrieving kite line. I aim the camera and fire its shutter using the radio while I stay at the ground end of the kite line. The camera can rotate through the compass, tilt from horizon to nadir, and change from portrait to landscape format. I compose my images by watching the camera and imagining what it would see. The whole process entertains me to no end.

Details are available at http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap


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As an architect I have long been a fan of Frank Lloyd Wright and

photographed this building in 1997. At that time the roof was in

disrepair (patching and very faded color) and the photographs were not

particularly satisfying. To my great delight they refurbished the roof

in 2001 and I returned this summer for another session. Let me know

what you think.

 

(I confess that I am somewhat sensitive regarding the single extant

rating for this image. I am curious to see whether there is broad

agreement with AZ).

 

Cheers,

 

Cris

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I am a fellow architect and find the process by which you are taking these photographs to be very intersting - though I don't have a camera that I am willing to risk to a kite adventure. I think that this is one of those photos that architects will appreciate, but which will not be popular among a general audience. I think that the positive/negative space relationship is very interesting. Perhaps you should try a tighter crop of just the blue roof space around the top of the dome - just a suggestion.
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I've been wanting to do this for a long time. It's winter now and if people see me flying a kite in Ohio in the winter they'd call for the men in the white coats. Nice job.
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