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Urban Geometries
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Cities are accidental museums of geometry. Buildings stack into grids. Windows repeat into patterns. Concrete and glass create unexpected compositions if you know where to look.
Modern cities are built on right angles. Streets form grids. Buildings rise in perpendicular lines. It's predictable, but there's beauty in the repetition.
"Architecture is frozen music." — Friedrich von Schelling
Glass buildings mirror their neighbors, creating layered realities. Which building is real? Which is reflection? The eye plays tricks.
Strip away context. Zoom in on patterns. A fire escape becomes abstract sculpture. A parking garage becomes a study in perspective.
Concrete doesn't photograph like glass and steel. It's heavy, textured, monolithic. But the shapes—the raw geometric forms—have their own austere beauty.
The sun is the best collaborator. It paints temporary patterns across facades. Morning light creates long shadows. Noon flattens everything. Golden hour gilds the ordinary.
Most cities are grayscale—concrete, glass, asphalt. But look closer. Rust on metal. Moss on stone. Graffiti on walls. Unexpected pops of color reward the attentive eye.
Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Windows. Bricks. Balconies. The city is made of patterns. Breaking the pattern—one broken window, one painted door—becomes noteworthy.
Look up. Always look up. Skyscrapers converge toward impossible vanishing points. Fire escapes zigzag against clouds. The sky is framed in new shapes.
"The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo." — Desmond Morris
After dark, the city transforms. Lit windows become pixels in a giant screen. Neon signs paint faces in unnatural hues. Long exposures blur movement into rivers of light.
Not everything is glass and steel. Industrial zones rust. Warehouses crumble. Nature reclaims what we abandon. There's melancholy beauty in entropy.
Step back from abstraction. Cities are made for people. Capture the human element—a figure dwarfed by architecture, emphasizing scale and our place in these environments we've built.
Shot on iPhone. Edited in Lightroom. Cities visited: Tokyo, New York, Berlin, Singapore.
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