Continuing the series on Philadelphia buildings, particularly the City Hall and the Municipal Services Building. This is made up of, essentially, three panoramas on top of one another. This can be taken in unconsciously. with the levels of grass in foreground and dark sky that sandwich the structures.

Making it black and white very much affects the mood of the scene. Maybe it is all of those sixties movies in black and white that I saw, but the city immediately becomes bleaker and less sympathetic. Even the grass in the foreground becomes less grass-like and more like the artificial turf you get on a putt-putt course.

It has some vague areas that you can't make out at this small scale where transitions are not cleaned up and you can see the rough joins.

Putting things together in this fashion is a reminder of how the situation is not as you experienced it. All the world is a stage (though 71% of it fails to live up to building code simply by being water and not providing your actors with a non-drownding work environment) - but it only becomes a scene when spread out in two dimensions.

Fun fact: there is a statue of William Penn on top of the City Hall that is eleven metres tall, or 37 feet. I love it that you make a statue that has one thing going for it - it is very very big - and then you put it somewhere that everyone who even thinks to look up at it and see it will assume it's probably normal sized. The effort to build, the materials used, the ingenuity to get it up there. What a bunch of nuggets.