Plane Fantasy (pun intended).

[John 2]

Taken somewhere in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The product of a rainy day. Not everyone is keen on this sort of thing but I quite liked it.

Comments welcomed.

Fuji X70 - fixed 18mm lens

[Shadowman]

Nice shot.

[GBO25]

I find images like this are surprisingly and exceedingly difficult to take.
Getting the camera perfectly placed in all three axes to get a perfectly symmetrical shot is near on impossible for me.
Even here the vertical lines are not perfectly perpendicular and that's partially why the lower part of the building is not quite symmetrical. You'd need to rotate the camera and shift your position and then something else would be out of sync.

Don,t get me wrong, I love the shot. Plenty of angles and lines, excellent colour and exposure and the misty light at the top really sets it off.
Nice shooting.

[JBW]

Interesting

[Wavelength]

Since the edges of the building appear to tapering towards the top, don't they have to be non perpendicular, i wonder!!!
I really liked this image

[Manfred M]

+1 to Graham's comments.

I too get the occasional "itch" to take an abstract shot of an isolated building (or buildings) to give me a quasi-abstract image.

These images are challenging to do. First and foremost we have to recognize abstract patterns that can work as an image, and for me this is the hard part. We then need to isolate them in such a way so that we remove many of the complex elements around them and effectively shoot just the geometry and the sky. The lines and angles have to come together in just the right way so that we get an interesting composition, otherwise the results can look pretty awful (at least that has been my experience). You've done a great job pulling this one off!

[Mike Buckley]

The perspective, colors and composition are stunning! My only suggestion is to crop to eliminate the curved part on the far right, as that is the only part of the scene that is curved. As to Graham's point about the lack of symmetry, that's not a characteristic that is important to me. In fact, a symmetrical version of it would perhaps be too static, not as interesting.

[Wavelength]

I too had felt,it would be better that part to be removed as Mike mentioned; but i did not notice the curvature nature of that part, until Mike mentioned it to be so

[dje]

Striking shot John, works really well for me. Great lighting. It almost looks like something drawn with a 3D CAD programme.

Dave

[mugge]

Love it. I think Mike is right about the curve UHC. My kind of picture. Keep them coming.
Cheers Ole

[bje07]

Very nice shot, working well in color but may be tremendous in B&W

[NorthernFocus]

It's creative, I'll give you that.

[madcrow]

Interesting and nice done.

[John 2]

Thanks all for the comments. I deliberately didn't try for symmetry here. My thoughts on this are that symmetry works well face on at ground level but as soon as there is some depth to the shot, it's more difficult to make it work. In addition, the perspective caused by a WA lens inevitably gives the impression of some compression. That being the case, there is nothing worse than something that is almost but not quite right (Manfred's point). Better to move away from the symmetrical provided the result is balanced in compositional terms within the frame. Just my view.

Mike, I didn't spot the curved bit either.

Jean, I tried it in mono as a matter of course but I felt there was a dimension missing. Given the absence of colour, an obvious statement I guess but not something that is immediately apparent in a good B+W image.

Dan, I'm not proud. A little is better than nothing at all.

[Kaye Leggett]

Lovely light and colours - a striking image I can 'see' on a big white 'corporate' wasll

[Urbanflyer]

Love it as is!

[bje07]

Thanks all for the comments. I deliberately didn't try for symmetry here. My thoughts on this are that symmetry works well face on at ground level but as soon as there is some depth to the shot, it's more difficult to make it work. In addition, the perspective caused by a WA lens inevitably gives the impression of some compression. That being the case, there is nothing worse than something that is almost but not quite right (Manfred's point). Better to move away from the symmetrical provided the result is balanced in compositional terms within the frame. Just my view.

Mike, I didn't spot the curved bit either.

Jean, I tried it in mono as a matter of course but I felt there was a dimension missing. Given the absence of colour, an obvious statement I guess but not something that is immediately apparent in a good B+W image.

Dan, I'm not proud. A little is better than nothing at all.

I made a quick test, you destroy if it bothers you, I think it deserves it (from your original)

[John 2]

Thank you Kaye, Judith and jean for the continued comments.

Jean, I most certainly will not destroy it. I will always welcome any suggestion. I am a lover of mono in general terms but not for this one I'm afraid. My own version wasn't as dark and heavy which I preferred more but in the end it was the colour version that I liked most.