Can you guess what they are?

[AnneWynne]

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Taken at DragonCon in Atlanta over Labor Day of the soaring balconies in two of the hotels that host the convention.

Anne

[CJWilkes]

WOW! That is crazy wild!

[ukglyn]

Wow, they almost look like a charcoal drawing, amazing!

[jakethepig]

Woweee Anne these are so gooood.. The look like abstracts till you look closer. Amazing use of the curves. Great work.

Dave.

[equilution]

Nice shots, Anne! Do the stairs have the texture shown, or did you add it! Very cool pics! Thanks for sharing.

[Chewys Dad]

Great Captures Anne! Very Abstract! I like these a lot!
Thanks for sharing these
Michael.

[AnneWynne]

Originally Posted by equilution

Nice shots, Anne! Do the stairs have the texture shown, or did you add it! Very cool pics! Thanks for sharing.

Actually, they are not stairs at all but the railings of the balconies. I shot these looking up with a telephoto lens, so the perspective fools the eye.

It was dark and there was no way my on-camera flash was going to illuminate it, but I fired away. I played around with levels, then applied filters until I liked the effect. The texture is noise from lightening an underexposed photo (really prominent in the second photo, that is why I converted to bw).

I am so happy you all like them... I looked up on a whim and was taken by the soaring heights of the balconies.

[wcinro]

Quite lovely and unusual. Outstanding job.

[AnneWynne]

Showed these 2 photos at my photo guild meeting last night and they also loved them, so I am going to put them in the next art show I do. I don't think these will look all that great printed on standard photographic paper, so does anyone have a suggestion for what type paper to print on?
Thanks,
Anne