Urban landscapes: Blue sky, soaring lines
SHELL OIL BUILDING – CALGARY, ALBERTA
Another case where a streetlight took a relatively nice urban architecture photograph and raised it (I hope…) to another level. Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Urban landscapes: Night at Eighth Avenue Place
EIGHTH AVENUE PLACE, CALGARY, ALBERTA
This is one of Calgary’s newest skyscrapers and it’s a stunner. I spent more than an hour here one summer evening, enjoying and recording all the lines and light sources. There are lots of photo opportunities inside, but I’ll probably never be allowed to record them with security and all. In fact, a security guard was eyeing me as I made THIS picture. Nikon D90, tripod.
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Lines & Light: the lure of modern architecture 6
ENMAX BUILDING, CALGARY, ALBERTA
I did a lot of moving around before figuring out how to photograph this building and these funky lights. Nikon D90, tripod. Another looong exposure.
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Lines & Light: the lure of modern architecture 5
PUBLIC WASHROOMS, CALGARY, ALBERTA
Trust me, when I found these buildings just east of Calgary’s downtown core, I was as dumbstruck as you probably are to find out these are public washrooms. But, in the darkness of pre-dawn, with this lighting and a fresh coat of snow, I quickly realized there were many great picture possibilities. This was a looong exposure with a Nikon D90 and tripod.
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Urban landscapes: Sunset streetscape
EVENING LIGHT, CALGARY, ALBERTA
Sometimes it’s difficult to make sense about of the jumble of buildings that make up a typical downtown. I was fortunate to find this scene while peering east from a street corner in this western Canadian city (host of the 1988 Winter Olympics). Street lights often add a whimsical touch, as one did here. Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Urban landscapes: the light of dawn
AWAITING DAWN – CALGARY SKYLINE
For a prairie city, Calgary, Alberta is surprisingly hilly. One such area, Crescent Heights, is where millionaire residents living in swanky houses that overlook the downtown core. I found a street that runs along the edge of the hill and has stops for people who want to take in the view. This is what I recorded about a half-hour before dawn during the summer of 2011. Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Urban landscapes: CN Tower
CN TOWER, TORONTO
During a visit to the Greater Toronto Area in November 2011, I ventured downtown with camera & tripod to find interesting images. The neat thing about this composition is the CN Tower, which was for many years the world’s tallest free-standing structure, is many, many times higher than this building (Simcoe Place) I’ve put it beside. Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Urban landscapes: Scotia Centre
SCOTIA CENTRE, EDMONTON, ALBERTA
I’ve started this new version of my photography website by highlighting a growing new passion: modern architecture.
In some ways, this subject is very much like my traditional photographic pursuit, nature and landscapes. For example, I’m still seeking order and artistry in a jumbled world of clutter. But often, I’m dealing with straighter lines (often competing straighter lines) and I’m not so bound by the restrictions of photographing around sunrise and sunset.
Modern architecture is often quite glorious in its design and that’s why I so often point my camera at it. There’s another reason, too: as I live in a large city (Calgary, Alberta, Canada), it’s often faster and more convenient to do this kind of photography than to drive several hours and hope the weather holds out at a distant nature photography destination.
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