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This thing is enormous. In grinds and churns as it follows the sun. The metallic petals flex and bend with the light as the sun sweeps across the sky. I had never seen anything like it in my life.
It sits in a park and public walking area of Buenos Aires, Argentina. I walked around it for a while to get a good angle of the monster. My tripod was stuck in customs, so I had to do this one handheld… and do my best to keep the camera as stead as a T-1000.
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incredible
excited about the new stuff! awesome capture!
Looks like something from a sci-fi flick. Great (and unique) capture!
Great shot
wow…. HDR without tripod !!! you are very pro my friend !!!
amazing ..
good lord. i’d say it’s like something out of a videogame, but not even videogames look that cool yet. astounding. doubly so considering the lack of tripod. and yet another place on earth i must see because of your photography. thank you.
waiting with bated breath for the newsletter..
A new type of photography!! wow thats exciting.. This is an amazing photo itself.. Very interesting, and handheld thats impressive.
awesome !
Cool shot!!
Nice one Trey, deff loooks sci=fi, there is a group hand held hdr you should add it to it.
This is ridiculously cool. Look forward to something cool and new too!
This is stunning! Can’t wait to hear about your new type of photography – sounds intriguing!
Beautiful!
wow, cool!
seeing this in person is now on my bucket list
Wicked!
awesome
what a great motive – the shiny metal looks wonderful!! I´m wondering what your job could be becuase it seems that you are travelling around the workld you lucky guy
Chambers charging . . . rifle lines revolving . . . FIRE!!!!!
That’s one hell of a bit of sculpture. Oh yeah cracking shot by the way, I do like the colours.
Is the outside coated in copper??
Interesting prelude masterpiece to the "Unveiling of Something Really Cool"…I can’t wait for the 24-hour countdown to be the first to know about it…hehehehehe.
great shot, fantastic structure!!
wow! i have never seen anything like this before too. amazing monster.
can’t wait to see your new technique.
amaizing so cool… i like that.
i love how HDR brings out reflections. awesome shot.
wow, incredible shot, love the colours and crisp details
Never seen anything like it either
Now that is one intriguing monster!
Totally neat presentation of it too…
amazing!
wow that is amazing. It almost looks rendered. Worth a trip just to see it.
Woah, I don’t actually believe this exists.
You found a stranded Vorlon vessel
awesome.. very interesting
cool reflection
This is awesome Trey, great capture.
As I said in your blog already – one of your best!
Great shot, almost surrealist
amazing!
Great capture, wonderful processing
it looks like some alien kind of thing
That is a seriously amazing piece of public sculpture. Hats off to Buenos Aires.
very very cool…
new technique! Oh…I so curious! I’m looking forward to this newsletter
Excellent spot and THING!!! What does it exactly do? Collecting sun power or something? :>
Great HDR Trey!
cheers
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nice as usual
amazing structure and image! I like it very much!
This looks like from James Bond or Star Wars. Great shot!
Now that’s my kind of HDR! Realistic yet a tad over saturated and with a little extra bit of contrast. Awesome capture and processing here for sure
wao!
Did it eat all of the people in the park?
wow that’s awesome.
golden flower!!
Great!!!
Nice work – very sci-fi.
What a find!
Wowza.
The reflection of the city on the second pedal from the left is really cool!
Brilliant HDR shot! Excellent post processing
That’s a great shot Trey. Not sure whether I like it more for the composition, or just the subject (or the idea of the subject).
totally wild structure. never knew anything like that even existed. excellent photo of course
Excelente!!!!
Awesome capture! I can wait…
I’m Gob-Smacked!
That is the most bizzare thing i ever did see!
Great job.
this is the sculpture:
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floralis_Generica
it is in spanish
btw, great shot!
Incredible. The fixture & and capture. Looking forward to hearing about the new technique you have in store for us!
That’s pretty darn awesome! Looking forward to see your new technique as well.
That pic is awesome! Totally looks like something from out of this world. I can’t wait to hear about your new technique. BTW, since you didn’t have a tripod was this a single raw shot?
Amazing!
Thanks!
Yes – I think this was a single RAW!
Amazing shot Trey! Looking forward to the newsletter!
what a freaking awesome structure and processing is great. single raw! lovely
Beautiful and almost scary
I want one! =]
EXCELLENT job with this HDR. It’s amazing =]
WoW!!! Great !!!
this is so AWESOME! Great shot!
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That’s totally sick! Extreme construction, and great shot as always
Floralis Generica!!
Wow, this is spectacular!
Super cool! Thanks for sharing. Just checked out your blog for the first time and its really great!
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Wonderful shot… great colors!
Great angle!!! I said it because I live in Buenos Aires!!!
That flowers is amazing,I love her and never get tired of her!
What a beautiful piece of working art !! Thanks for sharing Trey !! … will look forward to your exciting new release
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Amazing photo. What a crazy looking structure.
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Creative Imagery (Fave 1, Comment 1), and we’d love to have this added to the group!
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Noble Architecture, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
Great picture.
The ‘flower’ was called "Floralis Generica" by his author, the argentine architect Eduardo Catalano. Petals are made out of steel and aluminium. Catalano was a teacher at MIT from 1956 to 1977.
lovely picture! i am a fan of these crazy sculptures… cant wait to see the newsletter 2moro!
This is just phenomenal, Trey! Great job posing as a tripod, too! Looking forward to the sneak peak in the newsletter tomorrow!!!
Wow… That’s amazing!!!
A wonderful photo!
Amazing lighting
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Just… wowwww! Love the reflections!
Amazing ……
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Interesting!
I live in Buenos Aires and The Florialis Generica is the most beautiful thing I’ve seen.
Great HDR!
Truly outstanding!
Dude that is freakin’ AWESOME !!!! Looks like it’s straight out of an episode of Stargate or something like that. Awesome, especially hand held.
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Sweet!
Excellent shot and processing as usual!
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Love this shot. I have wanted to go and see this in person. Much like "The Bean" in Chicago it screams to be shot.
BTW – I think you should refer to your new "thing" as "s l o w – l i f i n g"
Just sayin’
Magnificent
Like something out of a horror movie. Great shot!
Beautiful shot and treatment !
Excellent!
I agree this does look like something out of "Star Wars!" I’d like to see it in action.
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Fave Moi France (P1/ F3), Portrait Contest results!!!, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
fantastic image dear!!
This robot is incredible!!!
What does it eat??
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called HDR and Photoshop, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
Awesome!
Another WOW…and a single RAW! No wonder the
This is pretty bloody impressive sir!
Reminds me of "Deep Thought" in Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy …
Hahaha.
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This is interesting. Something new to learn today.
awesome treatment and wonderful composition Trey!
good job..
The future, Excellent expression !
suweeet! future tech and nature in harmony!
Amazing solar structure like an artform.
Lovin’ the bronze & gold here!
good shot.
amazing hdr
Amazing. Great angle!
art in art!
You are my favorite! Another great shot!
That looks more like a render than an actual photo! I had never heard of it. Looks amazing!
looks like from the future!!
)))))) fantastic!!!
awesome hdr, love the processing… nice!
Wow, that thing’s… odd. Very cool, and it does look like something out of a sci-fi movie.
Crazy image! That thing is like from a science fiction movie!
INVITE to post photo…
I think this photo is a
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After you add it to the group pool, please tag this photo as a SuperShot
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Great processing
It looks like it has sad eyes
It’s a tin man version of goldblum’s fly character, sitting there, urging you to shoot, nay semi automatic bracket shoot him with his sad eyes
I’m going to visit (and drink some port) to see what my peepers see vs my composites
Make sething more than the sum if its parts as you have here.
Cheers!
amazing!
I love the reflection you captured in the ‘petals’ of this miserable looking creature … geez
Quite a weird object but very nice and the photograph is beyond good, congrats!!!.
Extraordinary artwork exquisitely captured. Beautiful work.
Excellent shot!
Thank you for sharing this under Creative Commons license.
I have used it in my Travelogue of an Armchair Traveller and have given due credit to you.
The travelogue is a non-profit ads free blog which I have created as a pastime and I do not derive any monetary benefit from it.
CuriousJM
PS: I have subscribed just now to the Newsletter under my actual name and will browse through the same daily. Please accept my heartiest congratulations and complements on compiling such an an excellent collection – that too under Creative Commons!
Now, if we could all grow these in our gardens we could save tons of energy and money
A gravity challenging structure… I liked it !
So is it like POWER?? What does it do? Or is it just a sculpture?
Great photo. This thing looks enormous, is very sci-fi and it’s beautiful. I wonder if it generates enough amps to cover the costs of designing, building and maintainance?
Hi, I´m an Argentine photographer and journalist and I live in Buenos Aires. The picture is beautiful but I regrett to say that is a PS composition. The flower is located in the gardens of the public TV broadcaster (canal 7) and sorrounded by buildings, for the facilities are situated in the middle of a urban neighborhood. There are no bushes like those in the picture and is impossible (whatever the angle) to take the flower without a single building appearing in the composition. That´s the "awful truth". Alberto
Mantap ! Brilliant !
@lest-we-forget:
I think you are wrong about this.
I have searched for this sculpture in Google and the first hit brought me to another photo without any building on it (and with bushes in the background):
http://www.waleg.com/archives/017827.html
Moreover, if you look at Trey’s picture with full resolution you see buildings indeed – in the background at the right.
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called A view looking UP!, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
Excelent! Recoleta, Buenos Aires
The Day of the Trifids is here!
seen this on my yahoo homepage. amazing picture man!
es como el trasero de Maradona
This sculpture is close to one of the most exclusive neighborhood of Buenos Aires!!! Recoleta!!! It is worth going to Buenos Aires!!
Many thanks to the artist AND the photographer.
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is that even possible
This is amazingly awesome….I bet in person it’s just……
Unbelievable…I have never seen it even in some previous pictures. So nice and cool. It’s wonderful.
good capture…can be new wonder…n__n
Congratulations great picture…I’m from Argentina, so double proud !!!
GASP!!!
very nice shot, congrats for being your photo in yahoo frontpage.
Awesome, I’d love to see a time lapse of this in action! Wow!
Saw your picture on the opening page of Yahoo, must see photos! Nice work. we have a mutual friend in flickr. Mtnguyd (Mike Coe) he goes on and on about your work! Good to see you on the front page of Yahoo!!!!
Does this have SOLAR PANELS ?
Is this a photovoltaic device ?
It is ingenious how it follows the sun.
WOW !!!
What a gorgeous shot.
b@@@Itch!!!!so fantastic!!!huh…
beautiful
Very very cool! Great capture
really nice, the structure itself is amazing and the one who give a shot, done in good taste, really great, its a wisdom comes from God. thanks who recieves such wiasdom. really happy as i see the picture.
Wow, what a great photo… and this thing looks so cool! I saw this on the Yahoo main page Must See Photos & just had to see it!
That is awesome…cool shot
I have seen this in person. It really is beautiful but I must point out that the surrounding in this picture is not close to what it really is in reality. The surrounding is more of a park like scene with grass.
the landscape is not as the original one in Buenos aires.
argentinastravel.com/263/flor-de-metal-a-metal-flower-in-…
Amazing shot.
this photo has been manipulated too much with photoshop. I was there in Bueno Aires and took this photo as well. I prefer the more natural setting. But, it is a very nice photo
Tremendous composition. beautiful light, and gorgeous color. Linked to you from Yahoo! since I just had to know what your marvelous photo was of. Thanks for sharing a new place to visit.
wow
good shot! interesting ‘flower’
Splendid, looks like a shot from another world!