Battersea Power Station, London, UK, 2024.
All the pixels, none of the upscale shopping, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54079042655
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@mattblaze@federate.social Another fantastic shot. (I mean, they’re all great, but this is one of my favorites)
@darthnull@infosec.exchange Thank you!
@mattblaze@federate.social Absolutely stunning, Matt. Thanks so much for sharing. I love that building, its history and the record that is wrapped in it 😄 Do you know that the North West chimney features an observation deck (and a lift fortunately 😅). I haven’t seen the building after they’ve finished all the work and this reminds me that I should go there again.
@edwinkremer@fosstodon.org Yeah, I haven’t managed to go up the observation deck yet, but the interior is interesting, if a bit sterile and generic for my taste. The exterior is amazing, though.
@mattblaze@federate.social I just sat down at a big screen to look at all pixels on Flickr and am now totally impressed with the amount of detail that you managed to capture with the setup you described. Just WOW, I’m speechless and I can’t stop looking at it.
@mattblaze@federate.social another great one
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.
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.
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.
@mattblaze@federate.social it’s very cool that you can have coffee or drinks in the control room area, with lots of the original equipment
@georgelund@urbanists.social Oh neat. I’ve missed that.
@mattblaze@federate.social Great shot and great album! (There’s a joke about asking for more hashtags, but I’ll leave that for someone else.😁)
@WildEyedBoyFromFreecloud@masto.ai Thanks (but to clarify, I didn’t record the album, that was some other folks).
@mattblaze@federate.social If you didn’t care what happened to me
And I didn’t care for you
We would zigzag our way through the boredom and pain
Occasionally glancing up through the rain
Wondering which of the buggers to blame
And watching for pigs on the wing
