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PLUME:seething and foaming plumes produced by this head create an architectural feature, best operated from a simple but substantial pool.display.traditional fountain that produces continuous tiered circles of water gently falling in a pyramid-shaped. A rockery, with its layers of large rocks and colorful alpine plants, can make a very striking feature if executed properly. Resembling a rocky outcrop on a mountain or a cliff face, it is an ideal way to link the different garden levels.

In the past few years, the academic and professional debate has focused primarily on form-making, the most obvious result of which has been those blobs, or funny shapes, that have proliferated in many architectural and urban design studios. But according to architectural theorist Antoine Picon: "What many designers have had in common is the belief that architectural form must express the intrinsic complexity of the invisible electronic networks and fields that surround it. Carlo Ratti and his colleagues and partners have taken a different course. Their mapping comes prior to any architectural endeavor. It reveals a level of complexity with which design should not even try to compete."

That's one reason why the feature photography field remains comparatively uncrowded, despite its obvious advantages over spot news coverage. It's easier for the cameraman to come up to the standards of news photography than to those of feature photography. There are many photographers perfectly capable of doing features, and who would like to do them, who never get into the field for the simple reason that they don't ever see the opportunities all around them for feature pictures. They lack the knack, something akin to the "nose for news" mentioned in the previous chapter, to recognize feature picture material.