Very graphic, with strong horizontal and vertical lines. The thick columns are wonderfully distanced apart and the thin cladded lines help pull out the columns. Beautiful side light finishes this image off. I think it works well without a person, but if it did have someone walking up or down the steps, it could be even better. One of my favourite shots of this series. Very well exposed, with verticals perfectly straight. The image makes the viewer want to see what is at the top of the stairs.
The metal elements of this colonnade is very strong, visually. Providing a great deal of weight to the top of the image, it makes you feel the whole structure would never collapse. The minuscule figures in the distance gives that all important sense of scale again. Works really well as a black and white shot as the lighter areas in the distance makes your eye pull to the distance. Makes me want to visit Newcastle to see if I could spot the bridge.
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**This contest is open to photographers ranked below 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.