Images

The colors of the roof and siding is what caused me to invest some time looking at this building in the Faroe Islands. Spending some time looking at the scene I started to follow the roof lines through the frame as I composed the photograph seen here. The simplicity in which your eye moves through the scene guided by the roof lines at first then followed by noticing the shapes and colors of the building as well from this perspective.

Getting close to an object can provide more detail, but can also let the viewer wondering what else is part of the frame. While in the Faroe Islands. I came across this chain and decided to concentrate on one loop. Looking at the chain we know that it is part of something larger, but can only imagine what this larger piece of the scene consists. The hope is more so that the viewer is looking at the details of the chain after some rain moved through the area to see the details making up the larger scene.

At the west end of the city marker in Charleston, South Carolina sits the Market Hall. Originally built in the 1840s with a greek revival style it stands out in this historic city. Walking past the building the contrast of the greek arches with the windows is what caught my attention with some nice light on the building. This contrast of the opening of the market below and the space above invites the viewer to wonder the usage of the building itself.

The history of Philadelphia is quite extensive as the founding of the county. In the downtown area you can quickly transition from the old city and Independence Hall as well as the Liberty Bell. But not too far away is the growth of the modern city as well. On a late summer day while visiting I made this transition from old to new over the course of a day. The Cira Centre which completed in 2005 is built over the train tracks which feed into 30th Street Station. On this day the glass reflection allowed the sky to continue through the scene with the one exception of the slanted side giving it a break in flow.

This is the facade of the Richard Boiling Federal Building in Kansas City, Missouri. When capturing the texture of the facade by just itself you start to lose the fact this is a building. From a distance I noticed this building and ended up walking to the Government area of downtown. The light in the later part of the afternoon started to give some shadows in some areas but it was the repeating pattern and lines which drew me into photographing the building. The scale is also thrown off on this building as these are each line is not a floor on this eighteen story building. The aluminum, glass and granite building was completed in 1965.