What I like is how the curve of the railing and the curve of the building have provided the structural elements to create an unexpected shadow shape cast against the wall. Our photographer has seen this and made it the key component of their composition. Having the generous negative space of the grey wall provides our gaze space to sweep around this 'striped' shape of the shadowed railings. Notice how the railing itself is discombobulated (seemingly thick and thin) by the interplay of shadow and curve, and also the out-of-frame adjacent railing sneaking into frame bottom left.
This is a wonderful photograph. The composition is simple but the elements within the frame are more difficult to deduce at first glance. The thin lines of the structures and their shadows provide a delicate touch against the patinaed wall surface. I like having to look closely at the greenish rectangular (opening?) roughly in centre frame, and the stamps of writing bottom left corner.
This aerial vantage point allows the ground surface to act as the photograph's canvas. Low, angled sunlight has cast the triangular shapes of neighbouring buildings upon this surface. The sun's light adding warmth to those parts lit, whilst the shadow surface renders cool blue. The tiny figures provide novel detail shapes and shadows to offset the larger, bolder building shadows.
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The interplay of light and form is one of the many considerations in the mind of a good architect when they are designing. In this contest we’re less focussed on the architecture, and more on the shadows that it casts - shadows that might be falling on the building itself, or the area around it. When it’s possible to return to the same building at different times of day, and in different lighting conditions, one can explore the many ways in which that building’s shadows will interact with its surroundings.