the perspective in the first one is great! until i scrolled down to see the second, i thought we were looking at the brightly lit underside of a freeway overpass. the color is amazing -- is this how it was or did you bring it up in post-processing?

yay, got here just in time! Nice color. I love the gradient from dark to light. Keep it up

I particularly like the colors on this one . I was interested on some of the comments you got yesterday about the contrast on your pics. I may say that I like yesterday's as it is since some of my last posts are pictures with brilliant colors, I am still learning and I really don't know if the color in my last pics is good but i still like them :p.

Any way I am still wondering what king of structure is this?

I like the abstract nature of both but I think the first shot is more appealing to me because of the contrast between blue and orange.

Almost looks like the deck of a very large boat from below.

definitely enjoyed the constrast on this images, specially the top one. the deep blue sky added an extra touch of beauty.

The colours are fantastic and I really like the composition in the first one. Blue and orange go really well together, too.

Love the colours and the blue sky. I think the clue to the structure is in the title.

I'm guessing it's an old gas-holder sometimes called a gasometer I believe. We used to have a pair of them in a road where I lived. They were painted green presumably in an attempt to 'blend in'! ; )

I love the contrast between the blue and orange. Very striking

Wow, that is very striking. The orange jumps out at you. And like others said, nice contrast between the blue and the orange.

I *love* the colors.

Ah, this is lovely. Much of the orange looks like cadmium orange, which is exactly opposite in the colour spectrum to your sky of cobalt blue.I love the deep, burnt orange against the lighter shade and all of that against the solid blue sky.

Nice!

First off, nice picture, i like the contrast. Second of all, i dont know if its "your secret" but could you tell me how you get the soft focus or the soft "feel" when you edit your photos of people? I'd appreciate if you told me because i have some pictures that would go well with that type of editing.

definitely agree that the blue in the top image is a brilliant contrast. especially divided by the white and black lines. the texture is just amazing. thanks for the link to the water light bulb, also.

Wonderful colors ! From a look & Feel perspective I would vote for Picture 1, but in fact Pic 2 talks to me much more than Pic 1. The first one is rather 'easy' blue & orange, great contrats, but you focus on the blue, not the orange.. with the 2nd pic, imagine it printed on very large scale, you can watch it for hours, lot of details, and do not get disturbed with the blue.

That lightbulb site bloke is pretty cool. I will definitely try his water droplet technique out. Can't believe the resulkts he gets with the 300D too.

As for your post. The colours are truly magnificent.

Must dash work and manager etc...

Is that rust or paint or whatnot? It looks amazing. The tones blow me away. I prefer the first one, btw; the sky adds depth, and I like that.

And thanks for the plug!

Oh, and thanks, tobias. How weird is to thank people for visiting my site on another site? ;)

Beautiful colours and great composition. Have these come direct from the camera or have you adjusted the saturation / levels?

Thanks everyone.

Adriana: PhilB is right, this is an old gasometer.

Vpra: take a look at the comments/description that go with this entry.

RainKing: it's rust, mostly. And you're welcome :-)

Mez: the saturation is boosted, but not directly; i.e. both images have had the contrast increased by using a fairly strong 'S' curve, a by-product of which is an increase in saturation.

Yeah! rule breaker! Next time post two portraint format pics and that will really cause a stir!

The first is my fave, partly because of the sky, partly because of the greater range of tones in the rust.

I'm going to be a lone dissenter and with the utmost respect say it is a little too orange and bright. I think it works better for the bottom one because the picture as a whole is more abstract and the bright colors creates the feel of a painting, with brush strokes and all.

For the top picture, a little more information is included which leads me to see it as a ship. This introduces a realistic object with unrealistic colors which distorts it for me a little. Though I really do like the orange offset against the blue.

I could see this as a nice series blown up to be big prints.
It reminds me of Edward Burtynsky's Shipbreaking series. They were large beautiful photographs of the dismantling of freighters and tankers in Bangladesh. This site online doesn't do them justice, the prints I saw were at least 36" x 36".
http://www.kochgallery.com/exhibitions/pr_burtynsky02.html

Nice, very nice colors, these colors are interesting grade. And I love orange & blue. Very good photoblog.

ian rankin.

Daaave: lol :-)

Marcus: my wife thought it looked like a ship too. And thanks for the link to the Shipbreaking series - they're stunning.

ste4ve: ?

I love the colors in these -- that tangerine color is wonderful with the black and white of the railing. Lovely!

Wonderful shot! I like you took the photo of this strange structure... When you see some kind of big iron building it's quite easy to do strange, alienated images (like in 'Spider' of Cronenberg), but in this photo actualy you showed the beauty where it's really difficult to find... I am impressed (I am impressed quite always when I see chromasia....)