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Walt Disney Concert Hall

This is the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. It is quite an amazing building and literally looks different from every vantage point. It is fun to photograph and they are very friendly about letting you go all over their property to take your images. I found it best in the early morning. I decided to drive over to Los Angeles in the middle of the night to get to the building by sunrise. I left Phoenix about 1:00am very tired and woke up going 80 mph off the road in the desert. Moral of the story, never drive when you are tired!

Tactile Skyscraper in a Monsoon Storm

This building should look familiar as it is the same one I posted an image of yesterday just under very different weather conditions. This was taken during a late afternoon monsoon storm. With very little depth of field mixed with the dust, rain, in black and white with a little bit of toning takes on a very different feel.

Tactile Skyscraper

I love the look of this building, one of the few interesting ones in downtown Phoenix. The contrasting materials used in the office space and parking garage make it a very tactile visual. When I saw the horizontal lines meeting the sky, and the sky reflecting back into the glass I had to stop. This building looks nothing like this until late in the afternoon when the setting sun is reflecting warm light back into structure.