Thursday, February 19, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
The Arch In The City
This is a companion picture to today's post on St. Louis Daily Photo Blog. I haven't done much about how the Arch looks in the city where it lives. This is looking south from North Broadway. That unfortunate bit of architecture to the left is the Four Seasons Hotel and Lumiere Place Casino.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
A Warped Sense Of Scale
There are a lot of tricks the Arch plays on our eyes. For example, most people find it hard to believe that it is exactly as wide as it it tall. In this photo, it looks like the family taking pictures gives us a sense of scale. But the Arch is so tall and, viewed from the side, it recedes more and more sharply as it goes up, that we really can't gague what we're looking at. One of its many wiles.
By the way, there is another new Arch photo today on my St. Louis Daily Photo Blog.
Labels:
Gateway Arch,
St. Louis
Monday, February 2, 2009
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