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An abstracting, compositional attempt at the Finnish Parliament building in Helsinki. The building is an architectural mix of classical and modern elements, and maybe even some brutalist touches.

Shot 11.2.2012 | #Fujifilm x10 | 13.7mm | f/4.5 | 1/1000s | ISO200

#BlackAndWhitePhotography #bnw #urban #urbanexploration #travel #finland #helsinki #winter #UrbanLandscape #WinterScene #InstitutionalArchitecture #ArchitecturalPhotography #architecturephotography #architecture #GeometricForms #MassiveStructures #PublicBuilding #FediArchitecture #MonochromeAesthetics #monochrome #abstraction #abstract #geometry #monochromemonday
For #windowfriday I chose to dig out something from the archive, shot with my beloved Fuji X10 travel camera.

This is a detail from the "Temppeliaukio" / Rock Church in #Helsinki, featuring two major topics in Finnish design/architecture: Light (because it exists in extremes in the far north) and metal, in this case copper.

11.2.2012
#Fuji #x10 @ f4.5 1/160s / ISO200

#fensterfreitag #windowfriday #architecture #church #helsinki #finland #metal #reflection #light #urbanexploration #art #amateurphotography #pixelfed #abstraction #abstract #minimalism #perspective
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@timixretroplays very tight integration between hardware & OS, for both good (excellent battery life) & ill (very expensive)

very un-customisable #UI (you can’t even change colours much) with many suboptimal design choices, especially when it comes to #accessibility (e.g. tiny controls that ignore Fitts’ Law; tiny fonts with minimal ability to re-size & inconsistent application of font sizes across the OS & even core Apple apps; text replacement shortcuts not available in all apps, even Apple ones, etc.)

lots of games unavailable for #macOS

starting to shovel Apple “Intelligence” into their newer devices that support it (anything with an NPU)

for iOS apps (increasingly, macOS & iOS are merging), setting opt-out defaults across all apps that have to be disabled one-by-one rather than providing a “switch this crap off everywhere” option (and rather than making them opt-in to begin with)

despite this, while I don’t trust Apple with my data or #privacy, I trust them a (metric) 🤬-ton more than #Microsoft (or #Google)

impenetrable design choices for how they do certain things - iMovie & Garage Band are just 🤪, Apple Photos whisks your original photos away into a database that’s tricky to get them back out of, managing the Music app syncing with a phone is ridiculous (whatever you do, NEVER let the Music app “manage your music for you”, it splits albums up all over the place & you’ll never get them back together again)

so much #abstraction that’s antithetical to anyone who grew up learning what files, directories, & filesystems are…

so sure, I use it - but I wouldn’t say it’s a pleasure to use, even when compared with Windows 😠😡🤬 or Linux (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

in short, #EveryOSsucks 🙃

I found this image in the pond of the art museum in The Hague. It is close to home so I go there very often, but I never saw these colors and distortion again. That is why I like the reflections when there is wind, so that
You see something different every time. By the way, you do see the green lead strip along the roof, the glass roof, and the (although darker) yellow color of the art museum. #abstraction #abstract #minimalism #reflection #denhaag #kunstmuseum #kunstmuseumdenhaag #photography #pixelfed #amateurphotography #photo
A clash of architectures as well as cultures. Not even a clash anymore: it is clear, who is dominating the skyline.

Maye even a good metaphor for good friday.

About the buildings: the background is dominated by the twin towers of the pharma giant #Roche, the taller being the tallest bulding in Switzerland with 205m. On the left, there is the smaller Lonza building (68m) originally the tallest bulding of the city in the 60s, and now considered architectural heritage. The church tower in front is from the parisg Heiliggeist, #Basel

#architecture #church #highrise #pharmaindustrie #architektur #hochhaus #karfreitag #goodfriday #astudyincontrasts #contrast #abstraction #skyline #urban #urbanarchitecture #basel #switzerland #pixelfed #photography #amateurphotography