#series: spiral staircases

Mar 23, 2016

• #1

W

Wolfgang Plattner

Well-known member

Hi,

on tour over Basel (Switzerland) to Colmar (Alsace, France) I came across this staircase at Badischer Bahnhof in Basel:

small project spiral staircase: out of the blue by Wolfgang Plattner, on Flickr​

met the sad face of the Ardennes at Le Galtz near Colmar

​

and ended up with the incredible work of Herzog & de Meuron for the Unterlinden Museum at Colmar

​

 

Mar 23, 2016

• #2

Antonio Correia

Well-known member

The images are great and so are the staircases.
The image I am most impressed with is the last one for it's degree of abstraction.
It looks like some kind of turbulent way down...
Why Wolfgang, have you made some in color and and some in black and white instead of sticking to just one type ?

 

Mar 23, 2016

• #3

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief

If anyone wanted my opinion and preference for an exhibit, I would suggest all monochrome since the essence of each image is the interplay of light with the spiral form. Color is almost a trivial emotive distraction from the superbly pure shapes you have discovered.

Really excellent work, Wolfgang!

Asher

 

Last edited: Mar 24, 2016

Mar 24, 2016

• #4

W

Wolfgang Plattner

Well-known member

Hi

it is yet just a series of shots of spiral staircases, that attracted me either with their colors or/and their structure. So this why I show colored and monochrome pics.

 

Mar 24, 2016

• #5

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief

Well, my friend, you have a great eye for both. Looks like you are on your way to two very coherent and beautiful collections!

Asher

 

Mar 24, 2016

• #6

M

Maggie Terlecki

Moderator

I love them all, Wolfgang! I especially like the 3rd one because of the graduations in the color, the composition and the warmth of the creamy color against the soft blue hint in the light above... very beautiful to my eye. They are all wonderful though the second feels less part of the set (yes, I know it is not a set) but compared to the others, as it has a much more rustic feel while the others feel so smooth! What fabulous find!

Maggie

 

Mar 24, 2016

• #7

W

Wolfgang Plattner

Well-known member

Hi Maggie,
yeah, you discovered the joke in the set ))
Sad Face is just fun, nothing else ...

 

Apr 2, 2016

• #8

Z

Zeeshan Ali

New member

Hi Wolfgang,

I enjoyed these images a lot. I personally like 1 and 3 more than the others reason being they are in color and have coherent style in terms of presentation. Could be a series of photographs worth pursuing.

 

Apr 2, 2016

• #9

W

Wolfgang Plattner

Well-known member

Hi Ali,

thanks for your annotations, I appreciate them a lot!

 

Apr 2, 2016

• #10

Jerome Marot

Well-known member

They are very nice, but if we move all the pictures to monochrome, we lose the wonderful pink-blue opposition of the first picture. If you want to present them as a set, maybe you could move all of them to the blue tones of the first instead?

 

Apr 2, 2016

• #11

W

Wolfgang Plattner

Well-known member

Hi

I like the input here, I appreciate that very much ...
@Jerome: yes of course there is this variety that you write about. This is - in a way - work in progress and I showed here "the basic material", open for suggestions!
But it is interesting to see, that e.g. N°3 and N°4 only work with the original colors due to the subtle blue tones in small parts of the photos.