The aggressiveness and invasive disorder of those elongated shadows provides a strong counterweight, sufficient to balance the picture. Hardly any of us would have applied such a deft but heavy hand to a corner of a nice and sufficient picture. This again is a good lesson. We should be prepared, on occasion, to be warlike in our hunting strategy and from time to time go beyond reasonable, appropriate and
pleasant. After all we are hunters trying to bag our prey, our prize! Nature does this for us where we hesitate because we know that rash behavior often ruins our work!
So this is a great lesson in lighting but also in the challenge to "bring off" such bold strokes deftly and impressively enough that this major structural modification can actually carry part of the "freight" of the total picture's worth - and it does and with applomb! Here the lighting informs us that "We travelled to this location in the darkness and then came across a wonderful building, regally standing out, dominating the landscape!"
Bravo, Nicolas! You were prepared and when it happened you bagged your prize! You changed something well conceived, sufficient and nice, (but static), to magnetic and unusually impressive and alive! Getting a living immediacy into a scene with no people is a wonderful achievement.
Asher