The Summit from the False Summit
BrianStevens has added a photo to the pool:
The boulder field (false summit) looking towards the summit of Mount Bierstadt, Grant, Colorado. 14,060 ft. elevation.
Lao-Tzu
david_c_reed has added a photo to the pool:
Lao-Tzu by Mark di Suvero, outside the Denver Art Museum in Denver, Colorado. (Really, it's called Lao-Tzu...dunno why...just looked it up. It's unofficial name is Helicopter Crash.)
Picnic Days in Denver
mattsantomarco has added a photo to the pool:
My lovely view from the Denver Museum on Memorial Day weekend. Typically, I refuse to take pictures around the noon hour but the cloud coverage on this day was particular ideal for HDR.
The clouds were nice and puffy, they kind of reminded me of the clouds in the "Simpsons".
I am now using Photomatix 4 and its simply great! The sliders are very accurate and can be adjusted on a more granular level. I still send the image through Photoshop for final adjustments but its a real time savor with a better tone mapped image.
Denver – CBD: CCC – I See What You Mean
wallyg has added a photo to the pool:
I See What You Mean, supersized sculpture of a blue bear by Lawrence Argent, was installed along the 14th Street Side of the Colorado Convention Center as part of Denver's Percent for Art Program on June 23, 2005. Originally commissioned in 2002, the 40-foot high, 10,000 pound sculpture, was constructed of molded polymer concrete and steel at a cost of $424,400.
The bear evolved from a small plastic children's toy, scanned with a with a three-dimensional laser-scanning device from Cyberware Inc. The Cyberware device converted the shape into a CAD file, which Argent repositioned using an animation program from Newtek, which transformed the 3-D hape into hundreds of thousands of tiny triangles, using about 400,000 reference points, and creating movement by changing the triangles' shapes. Argent reduced the file down to 4,000 or so triangles, which he then sent to a a design firm, which employed a fused deposition modeling (FDM) rapid-prototyping machine manufactured to create a small 3-D scale-model plastic maquette. Argent then hired architectural composite fabricator, Kreysler and Assoc., to fabricate the structure made up of thousands of faceted triangles of different sizes. The components were created in California and transported to Denver on four trucks. During installation it suffered an abrasion on its left haunch while being hoisted off its back by a crane. The scratch was painted over.
Denver – Sun Valley: Invesco Field at Mile High – The Broncos
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Invesco Field at Mile High, at 1701 Mile High Stadium Circle West, opened on September 10, 2001 as the home of the Denver Broncos of the National Football League, replacing the old Mile High Stadium. Designed by the architectural firm HNTB Corporation, formerly Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendoff, the stadium has a capacity of 76,125 for football. It has also served as home to the city's Major League Lacrosse team, the Denver Outlaws, Major League Soccer franchise, the Colorado Rapids, and the rivalry game between the Colorado State University Rams and the University of Colorado at Boulder Buffaloes.
The Broncos, a sculptural group of 1½ times life size horses running uphill in an alpine mountain setting, is located on the south side of Invesco Field. The statue, a gift to the people of Colorado from Mr. Pat Bowlen and the Bowlen family, was designed by sculptor Sergio Benvenuti. It features seven horses--five broncos, one mare, and one colt--and a water feature, which resembling a raging stream, that pumps 850 gallons per minute and is slightly heated so that in the winter, steam will rise from the stream as it does in nature.
Warriors-9781
Scott's Snap-Shots has added a photo to the pool:
Highlands Ranch Warriors. These were our first games of the season and the boys did great - as did the coaches! Please enjoy the shots and Go Warriors!