supercool!

I like this one. You are correct about the black theme looking best on this. It's amazing the difference it can make.

amazing, your photos lately have just got better and better. Love the red colour but also the idea that someone is standing on the very edge, my logical mind says you are behind a barrier but still makes me feel ever so uneasy!

Don't do it!

Man, great shot... not is only is it a great concept, but it is executed perfectly.

Wow, I really like how you framed it horizontally, it totally increases the dizzying effect, and the persons feet in frame make me feel like they're about to commit suicide. A very dark image, in several senses.

Rotated 90 degrees clockwise, this would make a great book cover.

But for which title?

Great image.

Quite impressive. I like it a great deal.

Very good shot. It's not only the graphic look of the stairs but also the 'innuendo' that comes from the feet on the right side: is that someone who is going to jump?

Looks sort of suicidal. and depressing. Great stuff. The red floor is interesting. It being a UK carpark i can smell the stair well from here in Canada.

That's hot.

Love the reds - they have a very Indian - Rajasthan feel to them, all red ochre and the like. And the edgy feel of someone next to an unpprotected drop (no barriers?!), looking through the lens and just losing balance .... really uncomfortable and offsets those warms reds admirably.

Nooooooooooo just because a few of your viewers don't like some of your photos doesn't mean...

Wait.

If you jump, please take photos. :D

I have to say this is probably the most intreguing one youve posted lately...very interesting depth. The feet on the side adds something to it too. Mmm, and the color. Rusty, I can just smell the mold.

Great effing shot! Brilliant perspective, color, texture, etc. Reminds me of another one of my favorites of yours:

http://www.chromasia.com/iblog/archives/0602012053_clean.php

Love the emotional content of the shot: the vertigo, entensified by the feet at safety's edge, and the dizzying presentation that comes from the 90° rotation and the staircase spiral.

Love the composition and the colors, oh, especially the colors. They have a grand, romanesque feel. The DOF is surprisingly good for a wide-open shot but obviously the focal length was sufficient.

Another element that benefitted from the focal length was the superb layering of the different carpark levels and the resultant proportions. A longer lens would have emphasized the bottom too much (and the DOF would have been disappointing), while a shorter lens would have lost the sense of a finite bottom.

Yes, you have a wonderful eye and you do wonderful work but I still can't quite comprehend how much blasted luck you have to be blessed with!

You have photographed the terrifying doubt.

Wonderfull image! I love the brown and red colors!

Very nice! I've always wanted to take a photo like this. I love the composition and the feet in it makes it feel a little more original than some photos that have a similar composition (though I could be mistaken). The low-key effect and textures from the decaying staircase both are great!

I like the colors very much

What a drop! I like the way this one makes you tilt your head. Great colour on the floor, looks a little like blood.

Very impressive image! Gives me a rather uneasy feeling. I would not want to park my car there ;-).

wow very cool. Carefull there.

Strong vertigo. Excellentissime !

I like this shot a lot, it looks almost unreal, but the colours remind me of Moulin Rouge.

I love how you didn't include the railing to make it look like you are standing on the edge. I love the colors as well as the rusty condition.

Nice and experimental, It looks great, extremely pleasing on the eye

The reds a very heavy and work great with the rusted dark metals, no wonder this caught your eye ;)

Love the composition and the red. I'm not completely sure about the feet... I think I would have liked it better without, but still a great shot as usual.

good perspective!

This red is superb - and the drastic illusion as if the guy on the right would jump, too!
Absolutely great!

I want another bite at this one since I like it so much!

My eyes scan it left to right, starting with those great glowing reds on the landing. Then I work across to that gulf, and think, ho hum stair well, then I get to the feet and realise there's no safety net ..... its another great story in a picture with a real tension and a hell of a punchline! The feet are absolutely essential to the story; without them its just another spiral staircase picture. OK, I'll shut up now......

I'm another one that loves these colors - so dramatic and full. On first glance I didn't like the feet in the shot, but with the way you've angled the camera, it almost doesn't look like you took the shot.

Another awesome image - I wouldn't like to visit that carpark late at night. Looks more like a slummy highrise building. Nice concept.

AD

:-)

Great shot (again), the processing on this is great, and I just love the feet in the framing it all works so well.

I have a spiral staircase shot that I was going to post eventually, but screw that. After seeing this, I'm just going to delete the file and maybe burn the hard drive it was on. This shot is gorgeous, scary, and most importantly an original take on the familiar "down the staircase" shot.

Cool shot. Is that your feet?

Theatrical. (I can *smell* a theatre when viewing this shot) Almost Escher-esque. It summons up the aura of dramatic expectation. Gaze drawn in....Breaths captured. And it leaves you thinking.....are we at the end of the story or the beginning? (The colour pallette doesn't hurt, either)

beautiful colour palette!
-david

I am pleased to know that you did not bend over too far to shot this. Your right foot hides the step you are standing on. When I first looked at the feet, I thought you were standing on the top landing.

Superb shot, totally different from what i have been seen here!

This one made me feel dizzy! My kids especially liked it! Besides the effects, I really liked the rich colors.

Exellent photo. Is the kind of photo I like. Though the shoes and the jeans are to new and clean for the idea I recieve watching the image.
Beside that, the oniric atmosphere goes deep. Well, that is my perception of the photo.
I am learning a lot looking at this site. Thanks

lol! i got a bit of a shock when i saw this picture because i took a similar one a few weeks ago when i was at school. except my picture's got completely different colours in it.

I need to know how good you are at "previsualization"... You shot it veritically, correct? But it's inexplainably perfect as a horizontal. Don't tell me you were planning to post it this way from the get-go. If so, you are truly inspired!

Whoa, vertigo. I love seeing these shots that I will never, NEVER get because my vertigo is too strong. Luckily I can look at them while firmly planted on the ground because its beautiful. The red is so rich.

takes you there. this scares me a little

I love the perspective and the endless number of lines...

Honestly, I started feeling a little nausous from my acrophobia when I looked at this -- it was THAT good!

Oh you have out done yourself with this one and that is saying something! Totally agree with the black theme too, it really focus your eye into the frame.

Very nice! I love the colour on the floor showing the path people have worn through it.

I used to have a pair of shoes like those....

i love this red. very lovely colors. does he commit suicide?

Nice warm colours and and very scary!

such a magic shot......depth depth..

Reminds me of a sketch from Fank Miller's Sin City. Nice shot. Colors are amazing.

"... must come down". great image with so many colours. i like ist very much!!

at the end of the hallway there's a door. you're one away from it! :)

I would only have one word : "Don't jump, we need you to show us your other pictures !"
Superb composition, dark ambiance.

That made me flinch when I saw it.
I have a strong fear of heights. Even a photograph like this viewed on a monitor can trigger really strong effect.

I'm so dizzy my head is spinning. Very cool.

Absolutely stunning. Breathtaking. Brilliant.

Yikes... Im fearful of heights. This photo scares me. Nice shot.

Very, very nice and a little scary. Gives me a bit of vertigo.

Stop! - Don't do it! - hehe, awesome perspective!

Nice sensation :D
Great picture.

I like the photo Dave, but I found the feet distracting. The texture and color are so rich, and the old building has this feel of antiquity and decay (i'm not sure if that's the right word), but the feet seem to spoil the mood by introducing the photographer into it, making the photo more about the photographer than the subject. And because photos like these are common, and often taken lightheartedly, it takes away from the seriousness of the image, and i liked the seriousness of the image.

Best Regards,

Stairway to hell... breathtaking.

last week i was in vienna and took almost the same shot damn :) but yours is better than mine! especially the colors! great work dude.

Amazing composition and I really agree that this would make a great book cover...

It's a bit sureal and makes me think of a a Dali paining or something like that. What would be awsome is to merge 4-5 images togeher withyou or some onehelping to go down te stairslookig p and snaping each timee look up... to cool!!

I've seen this kind of shot many times, but this is one of the best!

Wow absoutely stunning!

This one gives you a real feeling of vertigo. Excellent.

oh what a perfectly rustic, dizzying composition.

Redtastic.

Thanks everyone, I was pleased with this one too :-)

awesome shot, love the sense of losing balance, great color too

I'm in university and this reminds me of a stairwell in our residence. You hit some emotions right on in this one.

AH! I got a shock while the picture was loaded: People who are afraid of height could get a bit troubled to look at the photo. But it´s an awesome shot: Especially the red and brown rotten colours and (your?) feet give it a dramatical clue!

intense!

I'd guess this might be in that small collection of your favourites David! Simply brilliant!

Unless there's a railing out of the frame on the left, I'd be dead if I tried to take that shot - anything closer that a foot or so to the edge in a high place, and I get creamed with vertigo. About your pictue though - fantastic as usual.

Alright, I meant railing on the right side - I get confused, and all.

ooh - this really draws you in, i feel quite sick! great touch with the feet on the right.

I find it funny that I have an urge to tilt my head, but when I do, I realize that I can look at it better from the original angle...

Enough has been said already, but wow. I love this.

Very cool. Can I ask a favour? what exactly are you doing in PS to manipulate the colours to make them so vibrant, so rich? Alot of people I'm sure read your posts and really don't understand the off-handed steps that you refer to in PS. Any chance you can outline what you do in slightly more detail? And while you're on that, how and when do you decide that you're going to employ an HDR strategy with a pic?

Thanks

Idea of feet from Daily Dose of Imagery ? Or do great minds think alike ?