When I moved to a new place - Gyumri in Armenia - I discovered very few panoramas of this beautiful city in Google Street View. I took several 360-degree panoramas in equidistant projection, which I posted on Yandex maps and some other services (Google stopped supporting the service, as far as I understand). Quite quickly I got bored with this kind of technical photography and decided to add some abstract patterns to reality. In Gyumri, there are many houses made of black stone - tuff. The seams between stones are often made white. This gives a strong contrast. In the summer, when the sun is very bright, the black houses and temples seem even darker, another contrast arises. As they say, a city of contrasts. Therefore, I decided to support the local tradition of contrast, making panoramas black and white, and creating patterns by inverting parts of the image.

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