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My aim is to create striking images of everyday buildings that fit within the black and white fine art architecture genre, to show that opportunities surround us everywhere if we look carefully enough. To fulfil this, I seek opportunities as part of normal life; looking for interesting buildings and viewpoints. Working on this project has required me to concentrate on line, shape and form in order to highlight the aesthetics of the building itself in recreating it in the final image.

Unlike my "extra-ordinary" project, which features buildings that may not leap out as worth recording, this project covers more iconic architecture, again presented as fine art black and white photographs. I find this definition from the ArchitectureMaker website useful when trying to explain what I mean by iconic architecture. Iconic architecture is a building or structure that is easily recognizable and is often representative of a city, region, or country. Some of the world’s most iconic buildings include the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Sydney Opera House in Australia, and the Empire State Building in New York City. Iconic architecture often has a unique design that makes it stand out from its surroundings, and it is often considered to be a work of art.

This collection features black and white fine art photographs showing architectural details rather than entire structures. This technique often offers opportunities to further highlight form, shape and materials when presenting pictures of interesting architecture. This is a useful definition quoted from an excellent article on the Amateur Photographer website: "Abstract architectural photography is about finding the most interesting elements of the exterior or interior of a building or structure and capturing them in unique ways. This type of architecture photography focuses on shape, forms, textures, colour, light and perspective. The results are often unexpected, and unrecogniseable from their original state."