Back to the University of Virginia to mess about with the buildings.

The one below covers more than a ninety degree spread and less than 180. The building in the middle is the least affected and gets a bit of a skew. The Rotunda gets away with looking like a hat box with a peculiar frontage and the left side building gets roughed up quite badly. Seeing the Rotunda in this fashion reminds me of how crazy it is to make a mostly round building and then put a portico on the front. Classical and curves don't go together. How come I never noticed that before? I've seen the Pantheon in Rome and it seemed a reasonable idea. Now it makes me think the whole idea is loopy, a personal choice that has no logic outside of itself that we just get used to seeing and accept as normal, even beautiful. Good. One thing at least I got out of this.

The one above, I believe, is of the building on the left shot from close below. I only took a series of the upper section and then fiddled with the bottom and sides to fill it out to a size and proportion I wanted. Why does it go all funny? I dunno. Maybe buildings are like that idea you have as a kid, where people only exist when you are talking to them and when they are not in your life they don't exist. Like the Jasper Fforde books about Thursday Next and the characters in novels. Or maybe they happened that way after trying a few other things.

I have a bunch more from the same session where I set myself the task of taking photos from a position I haven't used before or as en exercise in coming up with a different photograph.

One aspect of the UVA quad is that it is all encompassing (Now it is. Originally it was a U shape). Another is light. Due to the daily passage of the sun each side is 'doomed' to have a particular life in our eyes. There's a sunny side and a not so sunny side. To the left of the Rotunda as you are facing it there is more midday and afternoon sunshine and gets photographed more. This 'means' we like the sunny side more. It is the interesting side and the one we like to walk up. Just so unfair. We are being Sun-ist and if we were ethical about it perhaps we would care more about that shaded side. That said. The back gardens are nicer on that other side but are rarely considered. Next time I'll check out the backsides. Or should I rephrase that?