Lazy Sunday Afternoon
by cheekymunky

Comment:
Not that it's a bad thing, but the lighting and the reflection make this almost look like a painted backdrop like in a movie. Looks like a great place ... easy to imagine being there.

Cottage by the Winter Marsh — Herring River
by Bear_Music

Comment:
I appreciate the additional explanation about the crop on the right. I think what "bothers" me about that is that, with the smaller room a perfect rectangle shot square-on, too much attention is now drawn to the "missing" cottage off the right edge, rather than to the junction/relationship of the cottage to the marsh, which you state is the primary subject.

Had you been standing just a couple of feet to the right so that you keep essentially the same composition but with a very slight perspective of the cottage wall receding into the marsh it would soften the impact of the missing building.

Since the topic was Architecture, I'm sure a lot of people just expected you to concentrate on the building. Still, I voted on the high side of the bell curve ...

San Francisco Conservatory at Golden Gate Park
by whagerbaumer

Comment:
I'm not sure it needed to be cropped that tightly, but the panoramic look certainly emphasizes the size and spread of the building -- very nice. DPC size restrictions do somewhat limit the effectiveness of panoramic crops.

For some reason this version looks darker too -- I might try to lighten it a touch.

Message edited by author 2005-01-24 20:36:35.

Architecturally Impossible
by soup

Comment:
Nice take on a classic illusion.

Reason NOT to use the low bidder!
by mfairbanks

Comment:
An architect with humor ... nice find!

Wentworth Inverted
by Arcanist

Comment:
In this case the inversion gives it very much the look of an illustration, which works well in this context.

Architectural Symmetry, Conservatory at Golden Gate Park
by whagerbaumer

Comment:
I haven't been there since it was repaired -- looks great. Even though it would be small here, I think I'd have cropped to a 2:1 panorama to emphasize the building -- I don't think it needs that much sky.

NY Arch
by singale

Comment:
Excellent job capturing/composing the distorted image.

Bellevue Skyline
by RayEthier

Comment:
Nice effect with the low buildings leading the eye towards the reflected skyscraper.

Ice Cycles
by poeticphoto

Comment:
Those are really interesting -- as you point out, most of us have never encountered (or looked for) these.

If your camera has a time-lapse feature, it be fantastic to shoot this window every few minutes through the night and watch them grow ... easy to make the series of frames into a movie.