A few words about architecture

A few words about architecture...

Just after portrait photography my second beloved photography motive is... architecture. I think that I had loved it for decades. I have never realised that, I think, as despite I've been surrounded by exceptional buildings and sculptures, somehow quite automatically I've started photographing them.

Some good photographers say, that when you go somewhere - to the new place, you must start photographing immediately. You will reach your maximum within first 3x days. After that period, you will stop seeing things..
I must say that I agree with it in 100%. The same applies to architecture. We all live surrounded by amazing buildings, with crafted mouldings and timber window frames. Hand made glass in those windows is another story..

We all are used to have them everywhere, and because of daily life, we have stopped seeing them. Perhaps that is a gold! We can live around beautiful architecture and not only enjoy it like i.e. we do when we are in museum, but we can also use them as those are built that purpose.

Do we actually still see their beauty - do we have a time for it? I don't have a time working 9-5. That's horrible, and I'm not alone.
Next time when you are on a walk with your wife, kid and a best friend of all friends - a dog, look around and enjoy it. Look on the light on the wall. Look on the old wall lit with the afternoon light and take breath... all stress at work will go away and visual pleasure will come.

Interestingly enough, the main architect responsible for the transformation of Paris during the 19th century was Georges-Eugène Haussmann, who served as Prefect of the Seine from 1853 to 1870 under Emperor Napoleon III. He oversaw the demolition of medieval slums and the construction of wide boulevards, grand parks, public buildings, and a modern sewage system, fundamentally reshaping the city's layout and appearance. While Haussmann was not the architect of London, his work in Paris was influenced by urban planning models from cities like London, which Napoleon III and Haussmann studied during their travels.