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03-OCT-2009

Contrast, Downtown Vancouver, Canada, 2009

I contrast the textures here of a gleaming contemporary aluminum clad skyscraper and a deeply shadowed 19th century Vancouver office building. Two primary colors are at work – the blue tinted windows of the contemporary building and the red stone facing on the vintage structure. The early morning light brushes the windows of the old building, adding still another texture to the mix. I exposed for the new building, allowing the older building to gradually fade into the shadows of time.

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Phil Douglis27-Oct-2009 20:39
Thanks, Claudia, for noting the contrasts between then and now, the cold and the warm, the ornate and the severe. The light is the key here -- without the contrast in light, the picture would not work.
BleuEvanescence24-Oct-2009 17:32
Architecture encounter between
cold contemporary
and warm previous century...
I love this contrast.
The light is exquisite, of course.
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