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Staircase in Decline<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cDescent\u201d
\nThe sun had reached an arc in the morning sky that made shooting outside problematic.
\nInside a cool building the sound of footsteps on stair treads drew me towards a spiral descent. \u00a0In Stephen Shores book The Nature of Photographs he talks about the illusion of the image. How the viewer is drawn into a two dimensional photograph only to find a three dimensional world beneath. Here the downward spiral to darkness was captivating at first, but was given context just as the person entered the last archway.<\/p>\n

Playing with perspective is one of the joys of photography. Creating depth and illusion in a two dimensional photographic world.<\/p>\n

As the staircase recedes into darkness the subject and the viewer descending with it.<\/p>\n

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