Zoom was great!! Love the texture in this! :)

What a cool looking building this one must be Mark, and once again you captured it so well here. It's hard to imagine this is part of the same building as the last image, and tells me that who ever designed it wanted to make sure every inch of this structure was original. Love this facade, and the enormous amount of detail work that obviously went into it.

Wonderful pov, and textures in the brick and trunk. Both seem like they have weathered many years and storms. CC

Brilliant POV here, and your use of the high-key lighting is masterful. Another really excellent image, Mark!

What Denise said...:) Nicely done Mark. Anticipating #3

Brilliant!

Splendid Shot you always seem to get it right my friend its a rare gift!

This is my favorite of the three. I love your composition, the letterbox crop, the mono and high key work. Fabulous!

SUPERLATIVE STONE BUILDING. GREAT POV

This is so gothic. I did examine the image, particularly the Satanesque structure, via zoom, Mark, and I must say that this is a splendid foto, replete with terrific texture, and love those trees, which really add to the ambiance!

The detail is amazing and your crop and composition just rock!!

Excellent details. Fantastic image!!!

Yep. Nice crop! It makes this already great shot seem all-the-more cinematic. For me, it's also intimate. There's a lot to explore here, but it's not the entire structure. And now that I see those pillars, I'm beginning to think that this just might be the Cable House. Funny name for a place like this, but there you have it! I love the pillars and the stonework and how this makes me think of the cliff dwellings of Petra, only with trees and no Arabic-speaking guys in really amazingly cool outfits, going around telling everyone how it's haunted by djinn who don't know how to behave. There's such drama in this shot, and it's kinda playing along the Dracula's Bedroom vibe too, with those tree limbs doing the tree-limb thing, which is pretty amazing. They're so wonderfuly gnarled and they look muscular, like this place is sacred in that Old Forces manifest themselves there, and they're totally indifferent Old Forces, neither good nor evil...just OLD, and ambivalent and amoral, and totally frikkin' spooky because of that. This also stirs up a lot of memories I have of Prague (where I'm heading back when I can!) because of the Old Forces there...but those particular forces were steeped in murky layers of alchemy and brooding Central/East European stuff, which makes them all-the-more appealing to me. This photo has that quality: there's an implied dampness, a kind of implied mugginess, and a palpable sense of history just sitting there, watching stuff and occasionally taking an interest in someone or something. I like that something like that lives so perfectly in this shot.