Look up!

[Manfred M]

One aspect of photography a lot of photographers seem to miss is what one sees when one looks straight up.

This is the ceiling, staircase and mezzanine of the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec (on the other side of the Ottawa River from Ottawa, Canada).

I've updated the first shot with three more images taken the same way, but I moved around and used different focal lengths.


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[DanK]

A very interesting image--and not the first time that you have posted one showing how interesting it can be to photograph straight up. I think I remember one you did of the Holocaust Memorial in Boston.

I think I would clone out the circle (is it an electrical box cover?) inside the arc on the far left.

[Wavelength]

Very colorful...as your present avatar; well done

[Manfred M]

A very interesting image--and not the first time that you have posted one showing how interesting it can be to photograph straight up. I think I remember one you did of the Holocaust Memorial in Boston.

Good memory Dan - I did that shot a couple of years ago.

I have always had the bad habit of looking up, so much so that as I young child I kept tripping and falling down because I was so busy looking up that I would miss things in front of my feet because I did not see them.

I think I would clone out the circle (is it an electrical box cover?) inside the arc on the far left.

That was my first thought as well. I cloned it out and then put it back in because I found the untextured gray area needed something to break it up.

[LePetomane]

I like it.

[skitterbug]

Super sharp, glorious colors - simply beautiful! I think I like it better without the little circle in the grey area.

Funny how we view our world - I tend to look down because I find things that way. For instance as a kid I found a strip of amusement ride tickets! <grin> Had a blast that day!

[Wavelength]

I am bit confused; is that single ceiling or a spirally receding staircase view with the distant final ceiling?

[Manfred M]

I am bit confused; is that single ceiling or a spirally receding staircase view with the distant final ceiling?

The brightly painted parts are the ceiling as are the circles around the painted part. The protrusions are a staircase on the left hand size and a mezzanine level (balcony) on the right hand side. There are also walls and windows in some of the shots.

[Shadowman]

Nice compositions.

[IzzieK]

When I first joined a forum, I decided on Digital Photography School because they have assignments like lines, curves, looking up, looking down, etc. I am not with them anymore as forums takes a bit of my time away from home, so to speak. I only mentioned it because of your title...and looking up has its merits too. I agree with you that many pretty pictures could have been taken just looking up, like this one you have here. They are very colourful. Nicely processed.