Photographing architecture can be a matter of recording the whole building in its context, showing how it interacts with the land around it.  It can also be about showing the smaller things, such as a part of the building, but also what happens to buildings once their original purpose has gone. The film director Wes Anderson has a thing for symmetry.  OK, this image doesn’t show his pastel colour palette, being black and white, but the symmetry is there.  It’s the 1896 Conservatory in Wolverhampton’s West Park, and I’ve used the Panorama setting on my Pixel 7a to record that symmetry.  The technique makes the front of the Conservatory appear to be somewhat curved, but I find that appealing. On a rather more mundane level, this colonnade links The Range to Aldi in Worcester.  It’s not perfectly symmetrical, as the columns on the left vary, and the window at the end is not in the centre, but one can’t have everything.  It just goes to show that you don’t need to go to Bologna to see fabulous colonnades! This last image is a small, but poignant, architectural detail.  It’s the frame that once held a sign saying there was a school here.  Although the building is still there the school has gone, and the garden at the entrance is now overgrown and weedy. Three images coming down in size, showing that architectural images are what you make them.

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