Light Graffiti
Even though View Towers is a pretty hideous building I keep on finding things to photograph on its outside. This is the north side garage area with light reflecting from a small building opposite, painted on like unexpected graffiti.
Today’s photo is another single shot from the half-frame Olympus Pen. Other shots of (or up against) View Towers, can be found here.
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Olympus Pen, half-frame camera. Ilford Pan F Plus, ISO50, 1/50th, ~f11 or ~f16
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burnt embers 
Nice study!
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Hi Mark – thanks for the comment, glad you like it. I sure wish we had some of this strong reflected sunlight right now – even if it would bring the cold with it.
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Clever title, Ehpem. I wonder how this changes as the sun moves. It raises questions: how are the abstract patterns created, what can I see, is there a word or a number hiding in those random patterns? In a word it ‘intrigues’. Incidentally I like the grain too – don’t think I’d really picked up on that in any of the other image from these half-frames before.
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I too wonder about how it looks as the sun moves. Had I more time this day, I could well have stuck around and shot a triptych as the sun moved over the building, which might have been quite interesting.
The grain showing a bit more might be a result of a bit of post processing on the scanned image. I had to crop it as I did not get a good alignment, and I tweaked the light and shadow balance to emphasize the light. I notice that adjusting the scanned tiffs is not at all like adjusting a raw file. This is partly because I did not scan to a really high resolution, which also emphasizes the grain. Anyway, I like a bit of grain in black and white, usually anyway.
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“Light graffiti” is the perfect description for this! I liked this when I first saw it, and find more things to like about it the more I study it. For example – the pole by the street adds a bit of depth (and it has its own bit of light graffiti), or the way the bottom edges of the top row of “graffiti” echoes the curves in the decorative brick just below it, or way the curb and bit of street combine with the horizontal element at the top to frame the main part of the shot. Excellent!
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I have to give my spouse the credit for the graffiti part of the title – as soon as she used the word, I changed the title in the draft. I am glad you like this shot. I do too, it is so much more interesting than the building is.
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