Friday, August 31, 2007

Stockholm: The Buildings

For Caro, who was getting tired of people pictures.

Here's the thing: when I take pictures of people, a lot of them turn out kind of like I saw them in my mind. Not all of them, but quite a few. When I take pictures of buildings, almost none of them do. Why? I don't know. I guess if I was choosing, I'd rather have it like this than the other way around, but still, it's a little frustrating.

So, here they are. Have a good weekend, in any case. I know I will. If you want to see the others, you can find them here.







6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you Darryl! (= Love 'em!! They appear so alive. The colour. The light. I feel like I can almost touch them. But at the same time they appear a tad unreal (too pretty to be real) but I suppose that that's because you tweaked them to death. So cool! What's the second one that kinda looks like a church? That's another one for your symmetrical/geometrical batch. The composition is rather lovely.

Darryl said...

Hey, I'm glad you like them. Yes, I have tweaked them, but the sky there, in particular, was unreal... the clouds were just insanely dramatic, like I was walking around in a painting. Wonderful. And the second one is a church in the south side of town... the first is the parliament buildings in the city centre, the third is a cafe in the old town, and the last one is a bridge between the main part of the old town, and the very oldest part, a small island with a church and a few other buildings.

Reality is okay, but I like to get just a little more out my pictures...

Anonymous said...

The church shot is pristine and spectacular. I love it. that's my "framer" of the set. but I love the sky shots too.

Darryl said...

The light that night was just amazing. Like everything was covered in butter.


Mmmmmmm...... butter.....

Anonymous said...

Definitely.... mmmm butter.

Both in food and in light. I love it.

Makes me even more eager to get that repainting job done in my kitchen... the light butter cream that the painter cheated with ain't doin' it for me. I want some richer, sunnier yellow.

Now can butter light backfire and make things too orange?

Darryl said...

Well, the real butter light usually doesn't. But it only happens for maybe 20 minutes a day, and I'm not willing to put my camera away the rest of the time. So I can either use a warming filter to take out some of the blue light at the lens or do it in phtotoshop after. And that can make things too orange. I may get too excited and overdo it.

Sometimes I'm just like that.