There is a playful side of architectural photography. This week’s inspiration, from the mind and camera of Kaylee Riek, shows us how.

Sometimes, limiting our perspective helps create interest. In this week’s inspirational photo, we observe the work of Murli Agarwal. We speculate about the subject, and we also learn about the fun mind games that photographers can play on their audience. All that and a great photo, how could you lose?

For this week’s inspiration, I let each of our readers the opportunity to crawl inside my mind and find out samples of what inspires me and the fundamental philosophies that serve as a basis for what I consider inspiration.

When one thinks of silhouette photos, sunsets and summer days and beaches come to mind.  Cold climates, snow covered escalators and tunnels are not at the forefront of our minds.  It may, however, have been be at the forefront of Emily Ferry’s mind when she created this beautiful photograph, Dupont North Metro Escalator.  I have [...]

This fine specimen is a photograph from Ken Cadel, titled Deep End.  Ken practices some of my favorite kind of photography:  The architectural photography of abandoned and dilapidated buildings.  I’ll admit, I have been following Ken’s work for a while now, and I invited him to share this photograph with the Shutter Photo @ Flickr [...]

When is a subject both transparent and right before your eyes at the same time? When is unorthodox lighting incredibly appealing? Read on to see why Kika Clore-Gronenborn’s photo, “Sepia”, breaks all the rules but remains inspirational.

Many of you have heard me rave about Tom Kirsh’s work many times in the past.  For those not familiar, he photographs dilapidated old vacant buildings, and his work is incredibly inspirational.  Check out his latest work in his photographic pictorial of Erich Wagner Kindersanitorium (PS – Kirsh often hides the real names of these [...]

The Kimmel Center on the Avenue of the Arts in Philadelphia.  Home to the Philadelphia Orchestra and the hub of life performances in the city.

A delapidated old asphalt refinery at a quarry near my office.  I pass this every day on my way to work, but today the clouds begged me to shap this shot.

This is the Manoa School in Havertown, PA.  There is no corner stone – likely it was covered by one of its additions.  But I estimate the school was built somewhere around 1927.  Unfortunately, the school is soon to be knocked down.  It has been vacant now for almost a year and a new school [...]

I’m planning a day-long photographic excursion through Philadelphia in the near future.  I live very close by, but rarely get into the city for anything other than business.  So I plan to go there specifically for photography.  For all those familiar with Philadelphia, especially if you have done similar excursions there, I’d like to hear [...]

How icicles can grow so large in such a short time, I may never truly know…

This is Boat House Row, located on the eastern bank of the Schuylkill River (pronounced ’schoo-kull’) in Philadelphia.  These are used as boat houses for crew skulling shells.  Some are even used as event locations.  But they are all part of an organization called the Schuylkill Navy which serves as a governing body for the [...]