According to the dictionary of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language, architecture is the art of designing and building buildings. And from this definition I emphasize the word “art”, because it really is an art and because it is the part of architecture that interests us in this challenge, that of art.
Every week I will propose a new challenge, it is a topic that you will have to capture in photo and upload it to the Facebook page of the blog by putting in the description the keyword that I will indicate for each topic. Topics range from portraits to macrophotography, landscapes, black and white photography, or babies. The themes will be offered on Saturday, so you have the whole weekend to work. You’ll have one week to upload your photo (one photo per participant), until Friday of the following week. Friday or Saturday I will update the article with the photo that most captivated me and propose a new theme, and so on?
- This week’s challenge is to photograph “architecture”.
- When I said in the introduction that the part that interests us is the artistic part.
- I did not mean that you only photograph artistic buildings like a cathedral or a palace.
- Describe the foundation? But rather the “artistic” part of any building and this can be the structure itself or the beautiful view it offers from a different angle or a wide angle.
- For example.
They can be classic or modern buildings, public or private, or even open spaces of architectural interest, such as a square or a large structure, or they can also be a set of buildings, or a combination of architecture and modern and classic people. Or a natural setting? But whatever you do, try to convey architectural beauty through a well-composed photograph (or in which you intentionally break the rules of composition), with a good framing, or in which you use the lines as an element composition, play with the escape point?Oh! And don’t forget the light, you can use it as a creative ingredient with architectural elements, because as Le Corbusier said “Architecture is the wise, correct and beautiful game of volumes under the light”. If you can capture the essence of this quote with your camera, you’ll have a great photo!
I gave you tons of clues! Now it’s your turn to think, let your imagination run wild and take a look, you sure have a piece of architecture nearby that can help you leave us speechless!?
As usual, to participate in this week’s challenge, upload your photo to the Facebook wall of the photographer’s blog: In the photo description, please mention the keyword? Architecture challenge? followed by a title of your choice.
For those who are not from Facebook, I have enabled the participation of new social networks.
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Looking at your photos is like traveling through time and space, different places and eras, from Renaissance buildings to modernist buildings to the most furious current, have shaken hands through your images. Thank you for the towers that rise to the sky, the arcades. playing with light, pure lines or facades that reflect the landscape. As a sample of everything, I leave you this gallery of highlights.
I loved the image of J Carlos Rayo. Su “extremely low angle” captivated me especially with his different and very attractive perspective. The composition is wonderful and above all responds to the maximum “less is more”, as important also in architecture as it is conceived today. The lines in this image bring the gaze to the sky, like the skyscraper that rises proudly to infinity looking to fly over the clouds, like dreams that seek to overcome obstacles that stand in its way.
The harmony of the colors, the completely straight lines, the diagonal that divides the image in two, the reflection of the brown surface on the white, its “cleanliness”, its brightness and simplicity, make it a magnificent photo. Congratulations, J Carlos, for his excellent “architectural perspective”!