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Friday, 6 September 2019
This Modern World
I know this may sound weird to those of you who live in big cities or in lands where history is less varied and visible than in the United Kingdom, but from time to time I get bored with photographing the countryside or historic buildings. I feel a need to "re-boot" my diminishing stock of grey cells in some way and point my lens at something different, something outside my usual drift of experience. One way of doing it is to examine some of the constructions and contrivances of modern architecture. Although I'm not much interested in the kind of world they represent, there's something about their sharp angles and shiny surfaces that I find compelling.
Your photography makes it look attractive, John, briefly, but I hope that in the next post you will get back to the bucolic scenes we associate with your blog.
ReplyDeleteI like those hard edges and definite lines. I like perspective, vanishing points, sharp corners. And the wibbly wobbly reflections in the windows, just taking the edge off the severity..... love all these photos!
ReplyDeleteBut I love the countryside photos too.
Ahhh...I love it! Pure art!
ReplyDeleteGood designs that architects are glad to have photographed, and you've chosen some good ones...and made your own with your cropping and composing. I like patterns with the juxtaposition of nature's unexpected grace.
ReplyDeleteYou display a good eye for pattern and composition here, John. It's good to have a variety of subjects, I think, though I do enjoy your local wanderings, photos and prose too.
ReplyDeleteI love seeing this. Art in architecture. Quite beautiful in that reflective, straight-line, angular, and colorful way.
ReplyDeleteA superb piece of Fine Art John.
ReplyDeleteA great place for these tall buildings is La Defense, the business district of Paris. Worth a trip if you are a minded.
Your first shot appeals to me particularly.
ReplyDeleteWow, some wonderful art photography in architecture. These photos are fantastic, John and I enjoy seeing them.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
Beautifully photographed and a huge departure from what I am used to seeing. I know what you mean about the need to "reboot". My reboot has been to try to do some night photography (limited success, but stay tuned).
ReplyDeleteYou certainly found some great "contrivances of modern architecture" to photograph!
ReplyDeleteI agree--cities aren't my thing, but I am fascinated by sme of the architecture I run across. Also by big machinery and shipyards, don't ask me why. Great pics.
ReplyDeleteGreat photos even though very different to your usual ones.
ReplyDeleteI like the lines and shapes and colours, and how you pictured them. A big contrast to nature photography but it´s that same contrast that is attractive, every now and then anyway ;)
ReplyDeletegreat geometric photos, and the colors are wonderful.
ReplyDeleteWonderful photos, it is always good to try something different. My favourites are the first one and the fifth one down:)
ReplyDeleteHowever you feel about these modern monoliths John, you have to admit they are mega photogenic.. fabulous series of images ✨
ReplyDeletethere is a whole world behind those windows...I never wanted to work or live in that world, but thankful someone is willing. And don't let Spare Parts trick you about his night shots...they were pretty wonderful I thought.
ReplyDeleteAll of which goes to demonstrate why I don't claim to be any kind of photographer but a snapper! And I'm with Jenny re your prose too!
ReplyDeleteHi John - I love all of these ... but have become so much more open minded since I started blogging - appreciating things I'd have never done years ago. Having just put up an image of part of the V+A in Dundee ... it's brutalist architecture, designed by a Japanese architect. Wonderful buildings you've given us ... as David says - a photographer's view ... not a snapper like me! Cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteThey are photogenic in their own way.
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