The Arch sits in a leafy park but there are old, run down industrial areas to the north and south. It all looks rather nice from the south with sunshine on it.
I would have been tempted to crop the very top because I find the brown line distracting since it isn't quite parallel with the photo edge but that's probably my tendency to wipe out messy details - probably unnecessary here since the point is precisely to show the messy details.
GATEWAY is a record of my photographs of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, the city where I live. I am obsessed with our great monument. It is a paean to American Westward expansion. The Arch was completed in 1966 and stands 630 feet / 192 meters high. It is exactly as wide as it is tall.
To me, the Arch is the most beautiful monumental sculpture in the world. I look at it every day as I drive to work and from my office window. It has moods. It is different at every hour, in every season and in every kind of weather. I never tire of it. For the last few years I have photographed it over and over, trying to avoid postcard cliches. Each time I carry my camera to its feet I look for something new.
Most of these pictures have been published in my other blog, St. Louis Daily Photo, documenting local life since March 2007. Come have a look.
All images and text on this blog are copyright Robert A. Crowe. All rights reserved. No use without express permission.
Lawyer for a living until I had enough, photographer for passion and satisfaction, worker in downtown St. Louis for 47 years. What I see is what you get.
3 comments:
dans la pollution de la ville, une autre vision
I would have been tempted to crop the very top because I find the brown line distracting since it isn't quite parallel with the photo edge but that's probably my tendency to wipe out messy details - probably unnecessary here since the point is precisely to show the messy details.
A great (and different) perspective on the Arch.
A great one too with this old industrial buildings and web of wires. Love the contrast!
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