Hello, I stumbled across your photoblog, and I really like your images. I find your series of historic buildings really very interesting. Amazing choice from the builders to suddenly change level, here, indeed.

urban8: Thanks, Mercello, really happy you found my photoblog site!! Glad you like the archive photos - and please visit again.

You're were right with your deduction !
Very graphic image. B&W suits well.

urban8: Thanks Florence - I like the simplicity of it all, made more effective by the (lack of) colour.

ABSOLUTELY awesome capture here, very well taken, loving the series of archie shots you been taking

Suby

urban8: Thanks Suby in MKUK - really glad you like this one and the other shots in my recent archive. Please keep coming back!!

WOW! You're right about that level change. It's almost dizzy-making, Urban8.

And for the life of me, I have no clue why/how I have missed all your last pics (which I've now just backtracked to see)!!! You are definitely one I want to keep seeing. So I guess I just need to pay more attention! I will!!! (Sorry about that!)

urban8: Hiya Ginnie - thanks for the comment and I am more than happy to forgive you for missing my recent blog shots - it's easy to miss photos, I find myself tracking back through other people's SC sites asking "how did I not see that one?" now & again too.
So thanks for finding me this time!!

Another eye catching image John. Visited this place last autumn and found it very interesting. There is some great mechanical stuff inside, water wheels, turbines and steam engines (boys toys) - the ban on photography inside NT places can be frustrating at times!! Your pic actually makes the place look cleaner and more inviting from the outside than I remember it - but it was raining quite heavily when I visited. David.

urban8: Hi David - thanks for the comment - and it is a fascinating place, you're right. I have a picture coming up in a few days here of part of the water-wheel spindle, so watch out for that!!
As for the weather, it was lovely when we were inside the mill, and just as we got outside to explore the gardens, very heavy rain started & didn't stop all day. Gutted.

Excellent shot - I am becomming a big fan of your work - have you got level with the building or is there a bit of tweaking of the converging verticals? Either way it makes for a very interesting image. Mike

urban8: Hi Mike - glad you like this & others, thanks.
The shot was more or less on a level, so it is as taken with no software tweaking done.
As usual, (and sorry for going on a bit here....) I don't mess about with any of my shots apart from cropping where ncessary, a bit of messing with brightness & contrast, and swapping to B&W if it works. Nothing more than that, so I never spend more than a few minutes working on the original - I simply don't want to do any more as I believe in getting the best result I personally can achieve with the camera in my hand, not the incredible power avaialble at the click of a mouse.
Thanks for visiting & commenting, Mike.

Looks good in B&W, wouldn't like to be the window cleaner though.

urban8: Yes, good point - there must be hundreds & hundreds of individual panes of glass on the building - what a nightmare that would be!!

Been there! Ages ago though, what an amazing place it is. I wish in some ways we lived nearer so we could visit again, more easily.

It looks almost as if one section was built after the other, almost like an add-on.

urban8: You're right, it is totally fascinating! I'm sure there must be equally exciting places down south too?
The NT map is full of places in the lower half of the country, so make me jealous & post one on your site which I can't easily get to!!

That's a great picture. It looks simple but there's plenty to look at and the geometrical patterns can be read it at different scales, which makes your image truly fascinating.
And the tones are just awesome. Something I think is called tonal range was mastered here.

urban8: Many thanks for the positive feedback, Julian, very much appreciated. It is always pleasing when cropping a bit of the edges off a shot can totally change its effect & perspective.

the patterning i love again, plus i'm in love with the contrast...

urban8: The contrast was very much created by the dull day when we visited - the heavens opened not long after this just as we were setting off to walk around the gardens. We didn't.