Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, 2023.
Extra credit pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/52977939495/
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@mattblaze@federate.social I’m from a town that’s about an hour and a half north of Pittsburgh so we had to go down there for the hospital, the airport etc. but I’ve never seen that building in real life. If I ever get back to Pittsburgh I have something to look forward to, thanks!
@Star12Mt@masto.nyc Be sure to go inside! It’s really gorgeous.
Captured with the Rodenstock 50mm Digaron lens and about 13mm of vertical shift to maintain the geometry (but several architectural features - setbacks and tapers in the building design - still make it appear to converge toward the top).
Pittsburgh’s 42 story “Cathedral of Learning” houses offices and classrooms for the University of Pittsburgh. Completed in 1937, it took 11 years to construct. It remains the tallest academic building in the US.
The lobby is also gorgeous, and worth a visit.
@mattblaze@federate.social
Thanks. I have fond memories of running Fortran programs on IBM 7090 there in late 1960s, for vacation job up the street.
It ran UMES, and of course MAD.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAD_(programming_language)@mattblaze@federate.social Curious: was this taken with a large format camera that has a roughly square aspect ratio or was the camera turned to “portrait” mode (is that even a thing with large format cameras) or was it just a regular “landscape” mode photo before being cropped?
@grwster@mastodon.social it was captured with a medium format view camera. You can rotate the sensor back for either portrait or landscape orientation. (This was further cropped a bit from the original 4:3 sensor aspect ratio)
@mattblaze@federate.social Really love your photos. Thanks for sharing.
@virtualbri@mastodon.online thank you
