This was my favourite shot here. The subtle but powerful red and orange tones and the shadows and light areas take your eyes on a journey. Another 35mm beauty! Simple yet almost feels like a different world. I like the rectangular doorway which leads out into light, but within the building the archways are domed. Again, a subtle contrast.
A mysterious view into a heavily carved and ornate columned and covered temple. The sun streams through from the inner courtyard which makes this image stand out from the crowd in my view. The floor looks wet so perhaps it had just rained or had been washed. 1/30th sec suggests the photographer had a tripod, but if not, a steady hand because the details are sharp. Perhaps slightly over exposed where the sunlight is, but it gives a lovely warmth to the shot. Great stuff
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**This contest is open to photographers ranked between 251 and 1000 in this week’s <a href="https://www.photocrowd.com/photographer-community/">Leaderboard</a>.** A feature of classical architecture in its many iterations through the centuries, columns and colonnades (rows of evenly spaced columns usually with a roof or arches connecting them) make an interesting subject for the photographer. Leading lines abound, either looking up at columns, or along colonnades. Or if symmetry is more your thing, there’s usually plenty of that to be found too. Classical columns can be very large, and including human elements in the scene can provide welcome scale. By definition colonnades can also be rows of other tall, evenly spaced objects such as trees, which might add some interesting variety to the contest.
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