Cityscapes
If you're looking for photographic inspiration, then search no further than your nearest city.
By day or by night, the city environment is one of continuous change where the old and the new sit alongside each other often with a surprising degree of harmonisation. The never ending hustling and bustling of people add movement and vibrancy to the modern urban environment.
Architects with ideologies sit in their futuristic towers, designing bigger, taller and more flamboyant skyscrapers to create dramatic skylines that the world will recognise and gasp at in awe.
The phosphorescent lights of a million bulbs in every conceivable colour are cleverly utilised to add shape, colour and form to the network of city streets, whilst incandescent street lamps create rows of dynamic lines for the photographer to use.
Yes... the city is a great place for inspiration and the following images are just a small sample from my ever-growing library.
By day or by night, the city environment is one of continuous change where the old and the new sit alongside each other often with a surprising degree of harmonisation. The never ending hustling and bustling of people add movement and vibrancy to the modern urban environment.
Architects with ideologies sit in their futuristic towers, designing bigger, taller and more flamboyant skyscrapers to create dramatic skylines that the world will recognise and gasp at in awe.
The phosphorescent lights of a million bulbs in every conceivable colour are cleverly utilised to add shape, colour and form to the network of city streets, whilst incandescent street lamps create rows of dynamic lines for the photographer to use.
Yes... the city is a great place for inspiration and the following images are just a small sample from my ever-growing library.
GLASS AND STEEL
The Swiss Re Building or 'The Gerkin' as it is commonly known as, stands 591 feet tall dominating the skyline of London's financial district.
Completed in 2003, this striking example of modern architecture is constructed of steel and glass.
Amazingly, despite its curved appearance, there is only one actual curved piece of glass in the whole building, that is the lens shaped cap on the very top.
Gaining an uncluttered view of the building for photographic purposes can be difficult, so here I decided to isolate the upper half of the structure by utilising the spring tree canopy as a 'frame'.
A polariser was necessary here to both saturate the green of the trees and kill off many of the relfections in its glass exterior.
The Swiss Re Building or 'The Gerkin' as it is commonly known as, stands 591 feet tall dominating the skyline of London's financial district.
Completed in 2003, this striking example of modern architecture is constructed of steel and glass.
Amazingly, despite its curved appearance, there is only one actual curved piece of glass in the whole building, that is the lens shaped cap on the very top.
Gaining an uncluttered view of the building for photographic purposes can be difficult, so here I decided to isolate the upper half of the structure by utilising the spring tree canopy as a 'frame'.
A polariser was necessary here to both saturate the green of the trees and kill off many of the relfections in its glass exterior.
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