September 2018 - THIS week's PICTURE

Heathrow Airport Joiner : photo by Malcolm Aslett

 

Compared to last week's photo on the tarmac in Iceland this one is quite a hodge podge.

At an airport there is nothing to see and a lot to see. Directly outside there is the plane waiting. The windows to left and right stretch off in sharp perspective.

Rather than have the usual eye shape that ia akin to the fish eye view of the world this one is more abrupt.

Not much colour. Not much in the way of surprising shapes. How very British to be so bland and conservative for a space that people will sit and be forced to read their newly bought paperback or idle on their phones (Question: will the new generation of phone users change the look of social architecture because the only thing they care to look for is a port for their phones? I think I will run this through a couple of filters to see if things can be made to pop. As it stands the centre of interest is a dormant plane with an advertisement for a bank. Everything else takes the form of two slices of bread to either side.

Naturally there were a lot of photos so it was done in three stages initially and you can see the divisions if you look. The left and right wings are consistent vertically. The central section with the plane was the other major one. The gaps in the construction were above the central tarmac area and I copied and flipped a section before distorting it so it appears as if there is som balance to that pivot of viewpoint.

 

 

 

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