kartograf, whoever you are, marry me

came across these pictures on flickr today. woah. they are all captioned "the weird home of russian photogammetry." i can only hope that this is the same thing as photogrammetry. see the rest of kartograf's photostream here.

the splendor and mystique of photogrammetry

first of all, how cool is the word photogrammetry? it sounds like a cultish photo-based religion, like a rogue faction of scientologists with leicas or something. second of all, how beautiful are these pictures? like nothing i've seen before, so detailed and abstract all at the same time. photogrammetry actually is "the science of deducing the physical dimension of objects from measurements on photographs." if you're curious, read more about it here.