Today’s architectural mishmash is a hodgepodge of abstracted geometries and colours from a variety of locations and a variety of styles, scales and palettes; other than poor assortment jokes, the only thing they have in common is a decomposition into pure form. I admit I like the idealism, the abstraction and the inherent optimism of having a structure that appears perfect and un-messed by its occupants, even if this is completely at odds with why it was built. In another life, I was probably a magpie, a collector of shiny things…now I am merely an accumulator of abstract colours and shapes. It harms nobody. It costs nothing. Some others may derive joy from it. That’s not a bad thing, surely. MT
Shot with a variety of hardware over a period of time, some SOOC, some Workflow III.
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great stuff. Love the first one…. Many are from HK!
Thanks – yes, good eyes!
I think that photographers and artists have the ability to see forms and shapes differently than the average person. This is what sets up apart. Bill Cape Cod USA
I’m pretty sure everybody has the ability, but not everybody exercises it…
very like
Thanks!
Wow, I really enjoyed this set, especially the stuff that places shadowed forms against lit stuff, and especially the fourth one!
Thanks – I always liked the confusion of dimensionality hard shadows bring…so much of photography is trying to enhance “3D-ness” when there’s a lot of visual interest to be had in removing it 🤷🏻♂️
I love coming here. It’s a quiet place – a place where I can sit in peace and contemplate – admire the calm and the beauty of these photos. As I sit here, I am thinking thoughts like this – “genius” – “by the interposition of that pillar, he’s mad that office build look as though a couple of Titans grabbed the ends of it, and twisted the middle of it – instead of yet another ‘converging verticals’ shot” – “woosh – coming out of the land of the Titans, that one shot me straight up in the air!”
No wonder you were at Oxford at such a young age!
Thanks – I have to admit I didn’t do so well there, probably because I wasn’t doing anything in the slightest creative…this set probably is the result of creatively ‘not caring’ more than anything else. It takes a great deal of experience – good and bad – to be able to just make images for ‘me’…
Wonderful mishmash of cohesiveness! Thank you.
Thanks!