Let’s stay in the “Shape” cat­egory. Here’s one of my all-​time favourites.

Brazília, the cap­ital of Brazil, is a unique city, with a unique (hi)story and unique archi­tec­ture. Some parts of it just look like taken straight from some 70s sience fic­tion movie (check out some more pho­tos here), cre­ated by the mas­ter archi­tect Oscar Niemeyer. For pho­to­graphy, per­fectly white, space age look­ing build­ings and deep blue sky (if you use a polar­iser) just work together.

This photo here was taken in the entrance of the Museu Nacional da República (National museum), which looks like a big huge white ball bur­ied in the ground with just the top bit stick­ing out. I was look­ing for an inter­est­ing angle, with few, clear lines and strong con­trast. I first com­posed the pic­ture so that I wouldn’t have the lamp in bit, but then decided that includ­ing the lamp would give it a tad more bal­ance and some­thing con­crete to look at, apart from the shape cre­ated by the wall.

How­ever, the more I look at it now I thing it might have been bet­ter to leave the lamp out… that would sim­plify, purify things even more. Ah well, too bad.