Just occasionally, I take a photo that gives me a disproportionate amount of satisfaction, and the image featured here is one such. I don’t claim to be a student of or expert in architecture, but I do like to gaze at it in an appreciative way, and pick out details that appeal to me, purely on an aesthetic level.
The image here is of the rear of a building in Colwyn Bay, behind Theatr/Oriel Colwyn, which is where I was heading for a photo talk one evening earlier this week. I spotted the picture I wanted to take immediately, but didn’t have a camera with me. I knew, though, that I was going back in a few days to visit Rolf Kraehenbuehl’s new exhibition, Corpus Delicti, at the Oriel, so it was an easy follow-up.
Photography being the subjective medium that it is, I can easily understand why others may find the image boring and of no real merit. I completely get that. But what makes it satisfying for me is the sheer amount of geometry that’s going on in it. There are verticals, diagonals, horizontals and triangles all combining in pleasing proportions. Even the three tiny cones on top of the chimney pots add to the angularity.
Boring though it may be to some, I don’t think I’ll ever tire of it.
