Avenue Gustave Eiffel

Posted by Aaron Schmidt (Auckland, New Zealand) on 5 October 2004 in Architecture and Portfolio.

Mr. Gustave Eiffel was indeed the architect of the world famous Eiffel Tower. He also designed a number of other buildings and bridges in France as well as being involved in the construction of the Statue of Liberty, the gift given by the French to the United States as a symbol of friendship. His design for the Eiffel Tower won unanimously from a selection of several hundred designs submitted in competition for the celebration of the 100th-anniversary of the French Revolution in 1889.

"[Mr. Eiffel] calculated the distance between the 2,500,000 rivets in the tower to one-tenth of a millimeter, the wind pressures at all heights so that the tower could withstand them, and the curve of the base pylons so that the pulling and pushing of the wind was transformed into forces of compression so the wind would not affect the base." - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/2774/eiffel.html

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Comments (6)

Shuva from India

Jason! See the coincidence!
This is one of the best composition of Eiffel Tower, I have ever seen in my life. To me, composition is the biggest challenge to take photographs.

5 Oct 2004 5:14am

Steve Kravitz from Upper St. Clair, United States

Aaron, no explaining how these similar picture coincidences happen so often. Once again, I had many choices to pick from and for some reason selected the musuem with the Eiffel Tower. I also like your composition. It tells more about the tower than you normally see in the traditional view. I have some other tower shots on film to post in the future.

5 Oct 2004 2:19pm

Jason from Atlanta, United States

Shuva - there are no coincidences :)
Aaron - another unique perspective on a famous landmark. Great composition - I like how the base of the tower is clear but it goes up through the trees off the frame.

5 Oct 2004 4:21pm

Leslie from Atlanta, United States

love, love, LOVE this photograph! Really, the composition, the angles, the colors...all are outstanding. Great perspective on a subject many have attempted to capture. Well done Aaron!

Regarding "meaningful coincidence"....Carl Jung's notion of synchronicity is that there is an acausal principle that links events having a similar meaning by their coincidence in time rather than sequentially. He claimed that there is a synchrony between the mind and the phenomenal world of perception. Perhaps our daily Am3 postings are helping us to "tap into" something greater, thus pulling it closer to each of us? The question becomes....How is the Eiffel Tower significant to this day, to this moment for each participant? What memory or thought does it provoke in each of us? How are those thoughts or memories connected and what is it attempting to teach us? We need a "photo forum" for discussions.

5 Oct 2004 7:17pm

Aaron Schmidt from Enghien, France

Thanks for all the great comments. Jason and I have talked about adding a forum for discussions, tutorials, etc. A question of design and development ... if I have the time. :)

5 Oct 2004 10:27pm

Ko7 from Paris, France

great shot. Bravo !

24 Jun 2009 8:07am

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