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Tag Archives: Architecture
Stepped Facade
This is a building I’ve walked past six times in the last few weeks not far from Victoria Station in London. It’s never the same. The light is different, the sky is different, the angle of light is different. The … Continue reading
Posted in Reflection
Tagged Architecture, Glass Reflection, London, Photography, Reflection, Victoria
13 Comments
Facade
One from the archive today, that I came across as I was sorting through images for use in up-coming Camera Club talks. This is Arlington House, an eighteen-storey residential tower block built in the early 1960s in Margate, Kent. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture & Buildings
Tagged Andreas Gursky, Architecture, Arlington House, Brutalism, Margate, Photography, Tower blocks
13 Comments
A Motif
Regular readers of this blog will know I was skiing recently in Whistler. I was not blessed with good weather and spent more time than expected exploring Whistler village. Whistler is a modern ski resort less than 60 years old … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture & Buildings
Tagged Architecture, columns, Photography, rock, Whistler
10 Comments
Facade
Just off Oxford Street in central London down an alleyway on the way to the Photographers Gallery you will find this facade. An abstract on a grand scale. Layered reflective strips creating a fractured surrealistic impression of neighbouring properties. A … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture & Buildings
Tagged Architecture, Distorted reflections, London, Photography
14 Comments
Eccentric windows
Some images immediately pose the question ‘Why?’. Why is there that large window-less space to the right of those windows? What is behind those windows? Perhaps they light a stairwell. This was taken near Victoria station in central London, an … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture & Buildings
Tagged Architecture, London, Photography, Victoria, Windows
10 Comments
Into the Interior
The modern concept of using glass as cladding or facade for buildings allows us to see into them to varying degrees depending on a range of factors including the direction of light, its intensity, the degree of reflectivity of the … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture & Buildings
Tagged Architecture, Glass fronted buildings, Glass reflections, Photography, Reflections
6 Comments
Geometric patterning
The world would be a very different place without glass. That is a statement of the obvious. But it is when you view reflections in so-called flat glass windows that you appreciate that glass is so much more than a … Continue reading
Posted in Reflection
Tagged Architecture, Debenhams, Glass Distortion, Glass reflections, London, Moire, Oxford Street, Patterning, Photography
18 Comments
Clean Abstract
A reflection in a building near Victoria station shot a few months ago. The reflections were dramatic and I decided to maximise their impact by using Topaz Clean to ‘clean’ and simplify the reflections. Then I straightened the image, in … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture & Buildings
Tagged Architecture, Photography, Reflections, Topaz Clean
14 Comments
Two of the Same
Whatever we photograph, whether it be a Landscape, a Building or something else, you can almost guarantee it won’t look the same when you re-visit. Two years have elapsed since my first view of this building – pictured above – … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture & Buildings
Tagged Architecture, Photography, South Bank, Southbank, Urban jungle
8 Comments
On the Diagonal
When fellow bloggers make suggestions for how an image might be improved, or could look different, I listen and experiment with their ideas. And this is the case with today’s image. Frank King of Frank King Photos (do take a … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture & Buildings, Black & White
Tagged Abstract, Architecture, Black and White Photography, Brutalism, Photography
21 Comments