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Found myself wandering around the University of Queensland yesterday and had a hard time deciding where to point the camera. A beautiful Brisbane day brought about some interesting lighting contrasts and I hope to get back there sometime soon when I've figured out the best way to handle them. Here are some images that survived the post-processing cull; I'd love to hear your impressions.

"Light and Shade" is a crop from a much larger shot and, unfortunately, suffered in the process. I found my eye was naturally drawn to the contrasts here so thought it was more worthwhile as an image in its own right.


"Pillars of Learning" is a view from under the Steele Building looking out into the Great Court.


"Ups and Downs" is a set of fire escape stairs that really appealed to my liking of stark, concrete jungle inhabitants.


"Fountain" speaks for itself. An oasis amongst the sandstone.


"Fountain - Colour Centre" was an experiment with some deliberately blown highlights and the history brush to bring some colour back.

Good shots Manta, I particularly like the contrast in the first one. pity about the image quality thou... UQ is a a huge campus with heaps of architecture to shoot.

Nice shots, you do have a good eye!
Cheers,
Gerard

Thanks guys for the comments.

Here are the original images (sized down substantially from RAW).

The first is from where "Light and Shade" was cropped and the second is the unaltered "Pillars of Learning" - I didn't like the ceiling lights and the plant growing out of the wall so I made them go away in the final image.

Simon, really like the Pillars of Learning, beautiful shot

1ST one is an ace shot and crop

Thank you Glen and Max for taking the time to comment; and for the positive words.

I will concur with the others that have said that the Pillars of Learning is a great shot - thanks for sharing

Thank you Chris. I'm pleased you like it.