There is no Lens-Artists Challenge this week and I had to come up with something on my own, so my challenge was to create a series of images.
I had one already, but I’m not sure I have ever shown them like this before. Forgive me if I haven’t. They are out of order here and I have the most recent first going to the first one I processed.
This is 888 Collins Street, Melbourne
This building is like a wedge that sits where Bourke Street and Collins Street intersect. I remember telling my husband about it and he said they can’t intersect they run parallel to one another, but they do at the end.
It is an interesting building and lights up at night, it used to and those lights used to change according to the heat. I don’t know if that still happens.
This next one is the Manchester Unity Building, also in Collins Street, Melbourne.
I have photographed this building many times. This time I decided to try and exclude all the other buildings around it. There are some things you can’t get rid of like the trees. I have to say I understand why they plant the trees, but they make architectural photography very hard.
I added a tone to it and I think it helped age it, though I’m not so sure I like it now. Maybe I will go back and change that at some point.
The next one is world famous, I think, the Flatiron Building, New York City.
This was the first I did in this series. I took the image in 2015 in New York, but I processed it later after I came home. I wanted to explore the idea of there just being the building so I removed as much of the stuff around it as I could.
It was the first one and I think it is my favourite. I guess that can be the problem when you do one that you absolutely love, as then it can be hard to repeat it with the same level of success. That can be because of the building, or it could be processing. I suspect with this it is more the building that makes this one really amazing to me.
To finish this post I’m putting the three images together in a gallery so you can view them individually. Do you think they work together in a series?
monumentally majestic!
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Thank you Graham.
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I love the Manchester Unity Building too, but the Flatiron Building in New York is particularly interesting too. I’d love to see the real thing.
Thank you Vicki, it is a very impressive building and it is good that where it is you can easily take photos of it.
These definitely work as a series š Like you I think I prefer the Flatiron Building a little over the others. I don’t have a problem with those trees in the Manchester Unity Building shot, they make the building look as if it is growing up out of them!
Thank you Sarah. Yeah, I wonder if it is also the view of the Flatiron, which is very different too. That is an interesting take on the trees, I like it.
These make a fabulous trio, Leanne!
Thank you Donna.
It was not meant for your post, I cannot erase it. It was meant for another blogger’s post.š
I deleted it Arlene, I left the previous one long enough so you would know.
Absolutely they make a series! and… just FYI… I support your idea of removing the tone from the Manchester United building and seeing how you now like it ‘naked’
Thank you Penny, that is good to hear. Thank you also for commenting on that, I will have to try to remove it and see how it looks.
Wow These are amazing photos Leanne
Thank you Brian.
Beautiful set! š
Thank you Teresa.
Stunning!
Thank you.
You know how I love your architectural photography. I talked with Sandy and she really enjoyed their day with you.
Thank you Anne. That’s great to hear that she enjoyed our day together, it was a lot of fun.
What a brilliant trio of images, Leanne!
Thank you so much Sue.
I’m impressed
Thank you IJ.
Gorgeous…as always.
Thank you Dawn.
Every one of these buildings is gorgeous. I would love to be on the very top floor looking down. What a sight that must be.
I would love to as well Lois, thank you.
Yes, I like them as a series – buildings, as ships, sailing in slow motion up rivers of concrete. Impactful.
Love that Sam, thank you.
I love these. It’s a genre I haven’t much attempted…yet.š
Thank you Michael, maybe you should give it a go.