analog kansas
Bloch Building Hall
Posted by grant (kansas city, United States) on 22 June 2009 in Architecture and Portfolio.
Kansas City, Missouri
Rolleiflex
Tmax 100
k@ from Paris, France
Great graphism; love the dialogue between Black & White here*
22 Jun 2009 6:49am
Stovepipe from Ames, Iowa, United States
it's like emerging from the maw of a great beast...
22 Jun 2009 8:05am
GJC from Kyoto (京都), Japan
Just a super shot. The great planes of light and shadow are so appealing.
22 Jun 2009 11:22am
Marcie from United States
Love the abstract nature..the graphic simplicity. Excellent!!!
22 Jun 2009 11:42am
david from columbus, ohio, United States
the changing light playing on the walls makes this for me. it feels peaceful somehow.
22 Jun 2009 12:10pm
dj.tigersprout from New York City, United States
BRILLIANCE!!! :) a classy shot mate!!
22 Jun 2009 2:20pm
Don from spokane, United States
This hallway makes a fine subject for your processing which results in a fine gradation of grays. Beautifully done.
22 Jun 2009 3:05pm
daina from New York, United States
Your images are always a treat especially the tiny details – for you are so very exact Grant and one knows that there is nothing in the frame by careless chance. Just one example in this image is the bit of undefined railing or is it something else? on the left side and how that tiny bit can redirect the eye and balance the large planes on the other side of the image and also the slight tilt has the same effect.
22 Jun 2009 3:38pm
@daina: thanks daina. your comments are always appreciated.
Terry H. from Azle Texas, United States
From out of the dark into the light we go. Like it!
22 Jun 2009 5:40pm
jeff (aka dogilicious) from Millerstown, PA, United States
You've really expanded on the geometry here. Excellent!
22 Jun 2009 6:21pm
ordinaryimages from Kentucky Bluegrass, United States
Dunno...I put my thumb over that bit on the left and it imho it becomes a stronger frame. bg
22 Jun 2009 8:07pm
@ordinaryimages: jerry, that bit is a person - i finally put a person in a shot, and.... never again... :)
Twelvebit from Victoria, United States
Powerfully science fictional. I do think Ordinary may be right about the railing on the left though. It's absence may well add power to the aspect of the image that makes it powerful.
22 Jun 2009 10:26pm
Howard F. from South Pasadena, Calif., United States
Nice abstract lines and shadow. Looks like a very modern building...
22 Jun 2009 11:21pm
Lambspun from Madison, Maine, United States
I love the waves of the floor and how the rail (?) on the wall add to the symmetrics of the whole photo!!
23 Jun 2009 12:13am
John Maslowski from Dallas, PA, United States
Love the metallic feel and light effect in this image. Great perspective and frame.
23 Jun 2009 1:12am
bluechameleon from Vancouver, Canada
There is an eeriness here...cold and lonely but the eye cannot help but wander through to the end of the frame.
23 Jun 2009 2:48am
sherri from Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
I like that the light is shining at the back of the hall. Really nice lines in the forefront.
23 Jun 2009 3:01am
daina from New York, United States
In answer to Ordinary and twelvebit
What makes something powerful to one person might make it quite predictable and not so interesting to another. Thumbs aside - one’s preference (and it is only that) does not prove one “right”
When someone appreciates something how can someone else dispute it? Even if they have a golden thumb it would not make them right or even wrong for that matter. If they have a different preference that is fine – but don’t dispute someone else’s.
It takes time and study to develop an aesthetic and sometimes that is the only thing that makes one opinion more respected and lends it more authority than another. Perhaps the only criteria to see who has more “authority” to judge is to exchange art degree credentials – the one with the highest degree wins :} That would be silly – as silly as trying to dispute an opinion.
23 Jun 2009 3:07am
@Mike: thanks very much mike
michele from Canada
didn't notice the person - was busy drinking up the light and reflected light in this - to me it feels like you stood in the perfect spot to catch how the reflected light changes with that rise in the floor.
25 Jun 2009 12:04am
