A really considered and crips composition here. I love the contrast between the old and new, it creates a consideration in the viewer of the span and change of human history. A great use of negative space too that gives a real strength to the concept and the visual impact of the image as a whole.
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I really liked the more abstract interpretation of the theme here. I would argue very much still a colonnade! And the super low angle showing us that incredible mirage effect and adding an abstraction to the image itself. I also love the (presumably) heat haze covering the image making kind of painterly.
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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.