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Vancouver Christmas tree (2 December 2010)

A night scene with the shape of a Christmas tree. Everything is out of focus but the Christmas tree is lit and all the light appear as fuzzy circles of colour. On the top a fuzzy star in white.
Behind tall building lit up are also completely out off focus, everything creating an "impressionist" effect. — The Vancouver Christmas tree right after its lighting ceremony, at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Deliberately out of focus.
2 December 2010
Olympus E-P1, m-Zuiko 17mm f2.8

Stata Center, MIT (11 October 2008)

I building with a reflective silver-ish siding. The windows are not aligned but rather in an curve, so is the buillding. Behind a more traditional modern brick building. To the side an even more shiny part of the building. That style is characteristic to Frank Gehry's style of architecture. — Stata center, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Building designed by Canadian American architect Frank Gehry.
11 October 2008
Canon 20D, Sigma 15mm f/2.8 EX Fisheye.

Frank Gehry passed away this week. This is to my knowledge the only building he designed I have taken pictures of. It was last time I went to Cambridge, MA. It has been a while.

The Stata Center or Building 32 is part of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It was opened in March 2004. Source: Wikipedia

The picture was taken with the Sigma 15mm f/2.8 EX Fisheye on a Canon 20D. The APS-C crop lead to less pronounced fisheye distortion. It was at the time my widest lens, which is an equivalent of a 24mm FoV on full frame.