Hi there my Steemit friends and followers!
Wednesday used to be reserved for the architectural photo contest and @tazi just announced his new #fototema (photo theme) which is "architecture" so the main topic of my today´s post is pretty obvious. However, I like to give these general themes a little twist to make my posts a bit more specific and (hopefully) interesting.
With Halloween and the Day of the Dead being just around the corner, it was not too difficult to come up with a spice-up for my today´s architectural post. Yes, you just guessed it right - this post will be full of photos of scary buildings :)
When browsing through my photo files in search of entries for this post, I figured out there are actually four things that make your architectural photo spooky.
- The building. The older and more desolate it is, the spookier and more haunted it looks.
- The sky. It is hard for a building to look scary on a beautiful sunny day. If you want to take a creepy photo of a house, you need a cloudy, dramatic sky in the background.
- Absence of people. When crowded with masses of tourists, even the most haunted castle loses its dreary atmosphere. You want to go for isolation.
- Monochrome. Bright colors just do not go well with scary stuff. That is also why I put all of the following photos in b&w.
If you are ready for some shivers, check out this selection of my spooky b&w architectural photos from around the world :)
Catedral de San Cristobal, Havana, Cuba
Kravare Chateau, Kravare, Czech Republic
Trakai Castle, Trakai, Lithuania
Abandoned House, Radun, Czech Republic
El Capitolio, Havana, Cuba
Bratislava Castle, Bratislava, Slovakia
Fortification of St. George Rotunda, Skalica, Slovakia
St. Adalbert Church, Opava, Czech Republic
Parish Church, Merida, Mexico
St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague, Czech Republic
El Penon del Fraile, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain
Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, Krnov, Czech Republic
Czech / Česky:
Tento post je také mým příspěvkem do @tazi´ ho rubriky #fototema, jejíž zadání pro tento týden je "architektura". Opět jsem to pojal trochu zvláštně a s ohledem na blížící se svátky jako jsou naše Dušičky, americký Halloween nebo mexický Den Mrtvých, jsem tomu dal tak trochu strašidelný nádech :) Snad se vám to bude líbit.
