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ctfchallenge | all galleries >> The Best of CTF Challenges >> Best of 2009 > 3rd Place - Find the Happy Face - by tvsometime
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03-SEP-2009 tvsometime

3rd Place - Find the Happy Face - by tvsometime

World Financial Center, NYC

Canon PowerShot G10
1/100s f/4.5 at 30.5mm iso80 full exif

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ctfchallenge07-Sep-2009 03:08
Beautiful! love it. jano
ctfchallenge04-Sep-2009 23:53
John, you can locate the building in Photogenix's "Hudson" over in the Pixelpeeper. It's the third from the right, or the middle of the three similarly styled WFC buildings.
http://www.pixelpeep.com/view/challenge/canon/6/exhibition/viewphoto/1252009094_214

Thanks Rod - yes it's like a gallery of synthetic cubist art.
ctfchallenge04-Sep-2009 04:24
Rod
This makes an excellent graphic sort of thingy a. I found heaps of Picasso type faces:-)
John Prichard 04-Sep-2009 04:05
you definitely have a fertile environment to capture reflections, Tom. It is funny how the brain works. I don't think I used even a tenth second to find the happy face. But to write code that would find it would take a year. If I ever get to New York I'm going to look you up just to see the building you work in.
ctfchallenge04-Sep-2009 03:35
Finally the truth comes out that Tommy is a cheater. The rest of us are out scrambling to find a reflection and he glances up from his office desk. Joking aside, this is one ripper of a shot my friend. Terribly good execution too. -Doug
ctfchallenge04-Sep-2009 02:27
What you are looking at is #3 World Financial Center and yes Doug, the shot was cropped and skewed to square it up. Reflected are my building #2 WFC on the right and #1 WFC on the left. Mary Anne, I think the intricate lines are the result of the distortions in the external window pane. All these buildings have double panes with a gap of about 1.5 inches between them. The shot was taken from the 32nd floor of #2 where I work writing SQL queries and supporting a commercial loan application. tv
ctfchallenge04-Sep-2009 01:19
What an amazing shot, Tommy! It has my husband thoroughly befuddled and trying to figure out what could possibly be reflected in those windows with all the intricate lines.
--Mary Anne
ctfchallenge04-Sep-2009 01:14
That was easy. Penny Street
ctfchallenge04-Sep-2009 00:13
Exceptional work Tommy. Certainly you had to crop this to get it so perfectly square right? -Doug