Today's post explores a wide interest in the built environment and architecture as seen through the camera lens. Taken on a crisp sunny Saturday morning and within close proximity this series of photos display a wide range of imagery. From urban shotgun houses to silver chemical storage tanks to a stately classical gate denoting an elite neighborhood. If you like these images please comment. I would love to know you impressions of my work. As a photographer I find the images compelling. The tanks are very sculptural. Like modern abstract sculpture they are pure in form. They remind me of organ pipes on a distorted scale. The column capital is pure classical architecture from a time when rules and specifics defined art and beauty. Rules that are no longer applicable for either art or architecture today. Yet these classical, formal details do posses and convey  a very real sense of order that cannot and should not be ignored.

Flora Place Gate

Corinthian Capital

Details

Hey Brother!

Organ Pipes

Tanks

Factory I

Factory II

Lone Shotgun

Keeping up with the Jones's

For those who are familiar with St. Louis. The tanks and the shotgun houses are in the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood. a neighborhood that is seeing considerable redevelopment and revitalization. Yet the "old" neighborhood and the "new" are in great tension. There was a double homicide one block away from where the "shotgun"  houses were photographed. Reminding us that our city and our society are in constant push pull of evolution.