When doing a bit of work on my portfolio site the other day, I came across the photo below. It was taken about a decade ago, but in many ways it now feels considerably more prescient than it ever did back then.
Photographs from a small group of islands
When doing a bit of work on my portfolio site the other day, I came across the photo below. It was taken about a decade ago, but in many ways it now feels considerably more prescient than it ever did back then.
Marc says
Nice shot. It’s a wonder it had not already collapsed.
Lee says
Cheers. It’s long gone now alas, but like you mentioned, it wasn’t far away back then either.
Harry says
Very cool. I like it. It reminds me of a scene from a movie or video game! 🙂
Lee says
Thanks. Yes, there is definitely that element about it. A very atmospheric place for sure.
Bernadette Siobhan Loftus says
I love that trees have taken up residence on the roof. Almost like they’re the ones doing the sightseeing now.
Lee says
Yeah, they’ve definitely got the best spots. It’s always interesting to see nature slowly take back a building. Both photogenic and atmospheric.
cdilla says
What a piece of architecture. And what a great time to to photograph it. You managed to get the perfect height to be exactly level with the roof revealed by the collapse of almost all the perimeter wall.
Love the icicles too – it looks cold with the cloud cover and lack of foliage, but the icicles give it a real bleakness.
Lee says
Wonderful, isn’t it? And yeah, I really couldn’t have asked for a better time to photograph it. Even the grey sky added to the overall bleakness.
LAObserver says
Actually it is an interesting view to an architect regarding which building materials survive exposure to the elements. There is a learning moment for mechanical engineering students in this one shot. That brick chimney seems to be in pretty reasonable shape compared with everything else.
Lee says
That’s a very interesting point. And yeah, that chimney looks in very reasonable shape. With that material in mind, I’ve always understood the lack of brick buildings in Japan because of earthquakes, and yet at the same time there is the huge and obviously very important important Tokyo station. A beautiful building that structurally doesn’t seem to suffer from being made of brick at all.