MY DOWNWARD SPIRAL

As always, best viewed large.

Well seen again, David. A great perspective and composition.

makes me dizzy.....and what a sense of vertigo i get here.

Interesting B&W - familiar subject matter with different touches. I find the fact that the entire spiral is implied rather than totally visible quite effective.

 

Good stuff . . .

 

michael

Jose: Thanks for viewing and commenting.

 

Linda: Well, I hope you will not turn out to be a dizzy blonde. lol

 

Michael: Thanks. Actually, I never converted this to black and white. The shade over the light is green, but so dark that maybe I only think I see a bit of green in it. Perhaps I should have lightened it up a bit to add that touch of color.

Hi David...wow, great view and of course great in tones. Take care 7/6a

Awesome, Dave. So many patterns. Great view. Well done, my friend. Regards, Lawrence.

Thanks to both of you for viewing and leaving the kind comments.

This could have come out of that old Hitchcock classic "Vertigo". Dizzying.....ouch! I just fell off my chair.

David...I hope it's not your downward spiral! Well done image and great pov...Marjorie

I will easily connect you with Escher's work of art...! it really reminds his work. I wonder where did you find that complicated construction....in any event you have well composed it.

Or a descent into madness. Oh well, I'm game.... I'll come along.

 

 

 

Very nice composition and fitting tones. it's enigmatic...escher-esque. compliments -koushik

Very well seen Dave. I am with Pnina in associating this with Escher when I first saw it. That was the first thing that came to my mind. Interesting to note that the green light is the only item of color in this composition that seems to personify something "plunging" down.

Dave;

 

 

 

What an utterly unconventional way to shoot a spiral staircase. I Iike the way in which you have made the light fixture, which could have been a liability, into an asset by giving it center stage and making great use of the fall off of light it throws down the stairs.

Jack: Be careful. I'd feel terribly if I caused you any damage.

 

Marjorie: Not to worry. I think my downward spiral from art to sanity is already on the ground floor.

 

Pnina: Thanks. As I explained in the Starbucks picture, I had a couple of hours to kill on Cannery Row in Monterey. I wandered into the old fish cannery building that had some shops, on the main floor that were mostly closed, and artists' lofts on the second floor, that were also either vacant or just closed. There was one little third floor corridor that was darkly lit, and I had to follow it. At the end of that corridor was this stairway. Light was pretty limited, but I braced the camera on the rail and got fair sharpness. I may have darkened the lamp shade a bit too much, as it almost appears black, but my intention was for it to have the only color in the image.

 

Jeff: Best not come along. The wife and kids need you. :)

 

Koushik: Thanks for your appreciation.

 

Adan: Thanks. I'm fond of the light shade as the center of the image. The rest is organized chaos.

 

Gord: Thanks for the thoughts. For you to call one of mine "unconventional" is intriguing. They don't get much more unconventional than you.

Well... Go to the head of the stairs...

 

this is a great shot Boss. MC Esher-like.

 

I have been absent from commenting for a while, but I do come and look at your macanations every week or so... I am watching. ;)

 

And most all of your recent postings are fantastic. Growing and expanding.. I like it.

 

 

I agree with the Escher comparisons. Very nice.

Great perspective here and I like your choice for b/w as it really brings out all those interesting angles and shadows. Very well done. Thank you for sharing. :)