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alking east from my house one afternoon, I noticed an elaborate structural configuration atop the Western Missouri Medical Center. I switched to my 300mm lens and made some exposures which I felt had promise. I continued on my way east, looking and photographing on what turned out to be a long walk. On my return, as I again passed the Medical Center, this occasion from the opposite direction, the light was entirely different. Compared to the pervious earlier shots, I established a different viewpoint creating different shape relationships, and made this image. Timing is decisively important.
“The photographer has to expose his plate to suit the light. In doing so he cannot take account (only) of those portions of the picture which are illuminated by direct sunlight, he must have details in his shadows, and these are illuminated by the general daylight and diffused light.” - Ferdinand Hurter
