Andy Rodker

Interesting study of modern architecture. The light and cool white balance fit very well to the skyscrapers. In this case I would have tried to correct the perspective to get vertical lines. Furthermore, my eye always looks to the top left corner and searches for the point where the black framing areas meet. It feels like something is missing there.

Hello Daniel and welcome.

I appreciate your advice. I would say however that I took this from a moving escalator and only use a mobile phone camera or a pocket digital. The reason is that I don't have the time to make photography a major hobby, I can't afford top equipment and I wouldn't use it anyway as my main hobby is to be in he mountains, on the rocks and bulky equipment would very quickly get damaged and be in the way. Far too risky! I also have very limited editing facilities and wouldn't know where to begin 'correcting the perspective'.

Please don't get me wrong, I would like to make my photos bearably passable! But my ambitions as a photographer don't really go much beyond this.

All best wishes,

Andy

I see, concentrating on image composition is difficult while moving with the escalator ;)
I'm totally okay with your way of photography. Everybody is different and it is good like that.
Just to let you know why my comments are how they are: I always appreciate constructive comments to my pictures. It is interesting to see what other people think about an image, and this helps me to learn more about photography. Therefore, I stick to this principle and I always try to analyse what is good about an image and what could be done better. But in the end it is just my opinion and you are totally free to take from it whatever you want :)

You can't make a silk purse out of crap architecture.
These blocks would still be ugly whatever the standard of photography.

Should be locked up.

They're always awarding each other, but no-one asks the people on the street.

LOL -- in some ways I think Isisbridge has a point here. It is not really pretty but rather overwhelming and unsettling. Some of the early highrises from Art Deco ala marvel comics Gotham are beautiful in their own monumental way, although I feel they would look better standing free from the base on like watchtowers of old, and on the inside I am convinced they are for everyday apartment renters just as unpractical and removed from nature as the 8+ floor everyday blocks not created by worldfamous architects to further the skyline but just for storing regular people to numerous to live all near the ground on top of each other.

We call these glass monstrosities ;) But, I like your shot of them.... They really stand out in the skyline, that's for sure....
Admired in Architectural Marvels

They build always more tall buildings everywhere it seems.

And I would not exactly lock up Richard Rogers. He is already such a frail elderly gent! And at that he is a quite good theoretical thinker, there is much sense to "Cities for a Small Planet" as such although he contradicts himself with monumental weird objects in the horizontal. Also I feel strongly there is no need that tall buildings to house many flats and workspaces without gobbling up the countryside have to be all from shiny reflexive materials the poor migrating birds bump their little heads on and built in ways they look like they would be defying newtons laws, just to be sustainable. :(