I have often photographed this narrow passageway leading to a side entrance of a local hotel. Depending upon the angle of light and the nature of the hotel’s painted colors, this scene is constantly changing. In April of 2016, it looked quite different when I photographed it in morning light. (It appears immediately after this image in this gallery at http://www.pbase.com/pnd1/image/163098158). I built that image not only around its brilliant color contrasts, but also created a composition based on the geometric shadows supplied by the angle of the sun itself.

In October of 2017, I again went back to photograph this hotel, along with a former student. I made this photograph in the late afternoon, as the sun illuminated the end of the narrow passageway from overhead. I still use geometry to organize the image, but the colors become far more important. The saturated beauty of the pink and yellow paint, turning to red and orange in the warming light, now dominates the scene.