architecture photography

we won’t be falling

I was told from a young age there are four things we mustn’t be stubborn over:

First is not thinking everything is permanent

Second is right and wrong

Third is kindness and evil

Fourth is life and death

~cited: Guardian, ep 21

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I hope you enjoy the Guardian’s soundtrack by, Chen Xue Ran, We Won’t Be Falling.

power to see…

Art, at its most meaning level, represented for Stieglitz a symbolical and equivalent of man’s most profound and acute power to see. Not what one feels one should see. Or what others have seen. But what one truly and most sacredly experiences oneself. Of equal importance: One’s ‘seeing’ must be communicated in reverent spirit, with deepest respect both for what is portrayed and for the materials with which one works.

~ D Norman (Alfred Stieglitz, Masters of Photography:  Aperture)

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Nikon D750  f/5.6  1/4s  28m  100 ISO

weekly photo challenge: shine

Nancy’s photo challenge for this week is: Shine, “Has the sunshine or any other light source caused you to stop because it’s highlighting something you didn’t notice before?”

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The design of this building; that is, the way it’s structure invited light and shadow to play with it’s mirrors and windows, not only caused me to stop it also invited me to revisit the building at different times of the day to “be in awe” of how it reflected ongoing changes of the weather as well as the sun’s journey.