EMP
by caba

Comment:
This is gorgeous! The silver and the black and the curves and the lines!

Memorial
by DefyTime

Comment:
Darn! I thought I'd find this on the first or second page... this is a shot that deserved to be rated higher!

round & round
by arngrimur

Comment:
This should have been at least in the top 10! Wonderful imaginative shot!

Working the Angles
by adine

Comment:
Thanks for the votes and comments all!
Going to the Stata Center at MIT was not my idea. magnus thought of this building as soon as the architecture challenge came up. What a great building! And the sun was just coming out after the rain. Magnus and I share the one camera and kept passing it back and forth - one taking shots while the other scoped ahead around the building. We took 150 shots. I got to look through mine first and picked a few. Magnus helped me narrow it down to this one. Only once this was submitted he looked at his shots and found one very similar but felt he couldn't post it with mine already there. Poor Magnus!

Magnus' version:


I took more pics too:





Message edited by author 2006-06-05 11:35:17.

Renaissancesque
by armin

Comment:
Very Vermeer-like lighting - objects seem to glow from within.

Since 1831 AD
by armin

Comment:
Nice sepia tone - appropriate to a place with so much history. When I was in Cambridge - I was frustrated by the shadows that fell on this bridge. You have tried to emphasize it by putting it on the thirds line and that does make a nice composition, but the bright lighting on the college draws the eye away from that wonderfully detailed bridge with its details in the shadows. Great sky though! And I like the detail of the punt in the water and the punter with a white shirt helps us to see him. Maybe a bit of doging in the shadows on the bridge, or a judicious use of curse to pull the details out a bit.

Texas State Capitol Building
by yanko

Comment:
You have made something massive seem very delicate - like lace. I would have been tempted to make the composition symetrical around the diagonal (bottom left to upper right) but perhaps that would be too convetional and the tension between the angles and the curves makes it more dynamic. For me it feels too tight on the right, and the cropping of the curves at various intersections creates too much chaos.

The Out Door
by dahkota

Comment:
I like the rosey glow and soft texture you've created. Feels a bit too tightly cropped.

Down by the Lake
by Firsty

Comment:
Nice pastel colors you have made this place look inviting. But a very busy shot that doesn't focus on any particular part of the architecture. Wish there were some anchor point, some direction of interest. With a different angle you could use the unusual curveof the lower structure to lead the eye to the sky reflected in the taller structure.

Curvy
by stare_at_the_sun

Comment:
A very different subject than most here - the shadows and light emphasize the billowing curves. The line of poles leads the eye into the frame and accentuates the curves by contrasting with them.