The UVA grounds are an attractive area but provide difficulties in getting a photograph displaying the whole pavillion in any shot other than a receding perspective. This one was taken walking parallel to the face. Originally there was a lot more lawn but it weighed the photo down to little adavantage. It isn't an accurate rendering as I see little point in acting like an historian. There are already hundreds of accurate records in some form. This is more about how the pavillion looks to itself, with the companionship of an array of healthy trees and the steady but small descent of such a long building on a sloping site. I also had a lot of pictures of sky I didn't add though it might be a direction to go in - a big and bold sky that reformats the shape to more common rectangular proportions.

I have several versions and this is the simplest on the eye. I have a problem with the heavy blue on the left hand side and am undecided about the differing finish between sky and trees in the two halves. I like it, more or less, but wonder if anyone else will consider it appealling.

I will have another go at the sky as I would like to see it in different shades and probably facet it if I can get away with it.

One of the obvious trials was to see how it looked in black and white with sterner contrast. It has the effect of reminding you that it isn't about a pretty blue sky but the forms of the trees against that white grid of horizontal and verticals.