Geometry and Light

The play of light and shade amongst geometric architecture has always captured my eye, and this view seemed served up to me by the very hand of fate. I took this shot on November 2^nd, 2010, during a visit to the Natural History Museum, Cromwell Rd., London. This is the annex or vestibule connecting the traditional museum to the super-modern, organic-architecture research wing, and the afternoon light through plate glass and girders creates a very futuristic effect. What you see is exactly as the picture came off the camera, I've done nothing with it. I could have sharpened it, added contrast, turned up the colour, the usual round, but I decided to leave this one alone. The murky feel of the light is mysterious, and the geometry created by the sunrays and steps is a hard artificiality contrasted by the natural light source. The institution serves to explore nature—the artificial contemplating the natural, if you will—and this picture creates an interesting, abstract, salute to the concept. Fuji FinePix S5600, automatic. Image by Mike.