Big buildings

It's always nice to see images that meet the brief in clever ways in this image works really well for that reason, showing the scale of the building without showing the building was a nice touch. Congrats on your commended image.

I absolutely love looking at images of buildings, modern new builds of metal and glass to crumbling heritage alike. There is so much of us and our respective cultures imbued within them that there is a kind of psychology attached to them, almost like they are living things too. Because of this they make fascinating subjects to photograph. With one eye locked on the brief of 'Big Buildings' and the other looking out for the technical prowess, mood and aesthetics of each image, his beautiful shot caught my eye for the obvious scale indicator of the sole figure. The reflective textures in the arch at the top add detail to what is essentially a minimalist image in the lower half. The figure walking into the light has echo's of sci-fi films like 'Close Encounters' and it all comes together using a lovely limited palette of blue-greys. A really beautiful image and my winner. Congrats.

Wow, what a stunning building and a hugely accomplished capture of it. The twist built into the structure completely justifies the slant it's been shot at which can sometimes be a bit of a photographic cliche, but not here. The high contrast mono treatment is perfect too. A beautiful second place image. Congrats.

Looking like a ship in dry dock this textured structure works best (I suspect) as a side-on single point perspective image. The inclusion of an almost perfectly centred figure brings balance to the composition and shows scale well. A really good panoramic image for 8th place.

I am a sucker for low key imagery and this angled view of a city skyline in Moscow is a perfect example of how to do it well. I love the detail of the two buildings reflecting each other in the centre. Congrats on 9th place.

This image stood out to me for the way it is cleverly using the worker to show scale. Although it didn't make the top selection it's still a good image. Composition is good, I think it could have benefited from being a little sharper / crisper.

This image shows a London view that has been shot many times before so it's all the more tricky to have it stand out as a result. The clarity here and the mono treatment work very well as does the landscape composition. The racing clouds add a wonderful movement to the scene. I can see this image stretched across the Lloyds of London front and back cover end of year report and accounts. A classy image for 7th place.

This image wow'd me through it's moody and mysterious aesthetics, processed brilliantly to give just a hint of the huge and strange structure lurking on the far side of the water. The 02 could be anything here from a Bond villains lair to a landed alien space craft and it's this strange ambiguity that I love in this image. A well deserved 10th place.

Another image that uses a sole figure to brilliantly convey the large scale of this window feature. The open composition hints that the actual building is much much larger still. Less is more once again and the muted colour palette of light neutral tones and greens makes the image very pleasing to look at. Well done on 3rd place.

I was struggling with where to place this one in the top 10, as an image I really love it. Showing just the top section of the building adds to the sense of it being 'big'. Isolating it against a vault of blue sky works really well (in post?). There is a lot of detail in the image and the symmetry is wonderful. Had the symmetry been 'as shot' and not mirrored in post then it would have scored much higher. Despite the post work it still makes for a wonderful image. Congrats on 6th place.

This brilliantly observed view of Mont Saint Michel shot at dawn just works. The light, the mist, the partially obscured reflection, the understated colours shows a love for subtlety and sensitivity in the photographer. Couple this with the desire to get up and out of bed to capture this image and we have (in one shot) the essence of what photography is all about. The building looks BIG too, which is good (almost forgot about that aspect in all that enthusiasm!) Congrats on 5th place.

I really want this image to be 'as shot' and not a Photoshop construction, and having studied it carefully I can see enough unique features in each window bay to tell me (I think) it is. This image is an absolute feast for the eyes, at first uniform and repetitious but the more you look, the little differences jump out at you. A beautifully aligned and balanced composition turn what is effectively a texture shot into much, much more. Almost like an architectural 'Where's Wally?' image. (there is no Wally btw before you look for him). Fantastic for 4th place.