Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Architecture

Temple prahara | Anita

A panoramic view of the prahara (enclosure level) of the Veerabhadra temple at Lepakshi, India – this temple follows the Vijayanagara architectural construction style. I used HDR processing for this, since the angle of sunlight and the shadows caused some variations in the pictures that made up the panorama.

For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #35: Architecture, hosted by Amy this week.

Weathered

Three towers | Anita

Does photographing architecture of times past give us a glimpse into the lives of the people in those times? Not really, or at least not completely, given that the history left behind for us is selective. It doesn’t take away from the wonders of architecture, though! 

Scale

Sagrada Familia
Can you tell how high the ceiling is? It’s difficult to get a sense of scale in a picture that was clicked looking straight up, isn’t it?

Corners

Lines
It’s clever how this pattern looks like it’s made of a whole lot of intersecting squares whose corners form eight-pointed stars, but there are really no squares at all here.

At the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba, Spain.

Heritage

Sculpture on mantap pillar

Seen at Chitradurga Fort, a well-known site in Karnataka (the state where I live) with quite a history, and associated with legends in the Mahabharata, an epic dating back centuries before our time..

Tropical Rain Forest

Pillar stones
At East Mebon, Cambodia.

For Jennifer Nichole Wells’ Color Your World Challenge: Tropical Rain Forest. Fits  the theme color-wise as well as climate-wise. 😉

Doorways and shadows

Doorways to the unknown
For Jennifer Nichole Wells’ Color Your World Challenge: Shadow. I’m pretty pleased that this fits the theme both color-wise and literally! 😀