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Published: 2003-11-21 14:24:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 13130; Favourites: 268; Downloads: 6504
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Do you think it is possible to have an " architectural photography" addiction?Or is it just taking pictures of amazing, man-made enclosed spaces that are visually appealing and can let the mind run free with possibilities?
Either way, i am drawn to the the idea of giving a glimpse into sub-terranian worlds.
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amazing!
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The present is in the foreground, the future is ahead 
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beautiful...a vast expanse into the infinite beyond...
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tell me you have a higher res version of this picture? it's fantastic - the color is spot on and the picture totally feels like the entrance to some subterranian city scape. great work and keep on posting.
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I LIKE YOUR IMAGE, but my eye stops traveling when it gets to the end. You need to have something going on from their. Mystery is over.
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lol, i had a thing myself for the DC subway system, great balance on your shot tho, you should check out what soem other people have done with the DC subways...
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wow....that's so symetrical (sp?) 
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tis my addiction too
i cant stop taking metro (subway) pictures
its so pretty under there with the weird covering .. and floors .. and lights ..
lucky for me in montreal theres dozens .. and each one is designed differently ..
now i wanna upload one or two ;p .. check in like 5 min ;p
on urs .. WOW
i wish it were bigger .. or in print .. love the green/blue and the range of contrast ..
not to mention to architectureral design kicks ass
love it.
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I saw the pic's thumbnail on the main page...Shinyobject is right... once you see DC subway it stays with you. It was obvious just from the thumbnail what it was of my mind works like a 
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HAHAH! DC! I was there a while ago, and took a handful of neat pics, but my perspectives were limited due to peing stuck in a wheelchair.
I would have posted a couple, buy my account's not really about photgraphy... but I did use one shot as a background... check it out: [link]
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that is awsome, I love the colors they just fit perfectly
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oh that's great, very nice job.
i love the hue. that's a great color.
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The thing about architecture, and this shot is that it is so fluid, yet so structured.
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gorgeous. absolutely sci-fi. how do u manage to take such stunning shots of architecture???
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Cool angle. Nice tones and colors. All in all I give it a 11/10. Good job.
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I can't stop daze that picture.. Stare.. Beautiful.. I love it..
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I love this shot, its fantastic. I love the colours and the way it looks so symmetrical but not quite. The people walking around really add something.
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OMG! this is a great shot! i love the color in it! very, very nice!!!
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Congratz
+FAV
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I want stations and subways in Perth like that
Simply stunning... once again
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i think its the scond taking pictures of amazing, man-made enclosed spaces that are visually appealing and can let the mind run free with possibilities..
however that is just my own opinion..
when you come to a place like this your eyes just begin to run everywhere eating this eye candy visually and creating different images and angles in the head..
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Well, heres proof that the more well-known and longer-lived deviants get allllll the recognition, leaving us lesser-known ones peering out from the 'nether regions' of the deviantart website. I took this EXACT same photograph, of the EXACT same place (maybe even the same station, they all look the alike), and at the EXACT same angle, and posted it on my page here on this site --> [link] . Yet, YOURS has made it to the daily top favorites! Why is that? Because the administrators and the 6000 other people on your friends list know about you. Mine, on the other hand, lies reletively unnoticed and collecting metaphoric dust in some remote corner of the deviantart server's harddrive. The thing that bothers me is that, apparantly, i have Daily Top Favorites-worthy material, and yet no one knows anything about it, nor will it ever get such recognition.
The issue boils down to a popularity contest.
Granted, my photo is slightly different than yours (slightly different color and elevation), which is to be expected, but the content of both is so extremely similar so as to make me somewhat peeved.
I usually do not go on rants such as this, but this kind of thing makes me mad. There really should be some sort of forum for us less well-known individuals - possibly another front page that displays the quality work and separate DTF's of those people that do not have the 5,000-some pageviews that the 'giants' on this site do.
Despite all of this, i stress that i am not commenting negatively on your specific picture. The photo itself is really great - the colors and angle are neat, and i like it. It's just that this shot, and its similarity to mine, just sparked me to rant about such things. I hope at least some people relate to what im saying, and maybe we can all work to make a positive change to the wonderful journey that is Deviantart.com .
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I completely agree with you about the popularity contest thing around here...but i do not engage in the games most people play. i critique and do not stroke egos. So suffice it to say, i think that i got as "popular" as i am because of the quality of my work....of course, you can be the judge of that.
also...this is washington dc's subway...probably 1000's of people took the same picture. mine is my take and i think it conveys a very different feel than yours. though your is a wonderful architectural shot, mine is more minimalistic and stark. i waited for NO people to be there...that takes some patience and took a very long time to compose it. and my post production is quite different from the normal piece, as the colors are not true to life, as are yours....so i made some really conscious decisions about the artistic presentation of this piece. Again, yours is really good, but mine is different, but maybe not different from everyones in the world.
I am sorry about the popularity thing, but again, sometimes it is also luck.
I submitted a pic once and got 2 faves and i submitted again 2 months later because i loved it so much and got 73 faves...why? not more "friends" but timing. There are alot of random factors involved here, but I guarantee one thing....keep producing incredible pictures and you will get the "faves" and plenty of exposure...not just on DA, but also in the "real world".
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Thank you very much for not responding negatively to my comment on this piece. I did not completely mean for it to be the way it is, and upon reading it again i see that i probably shouldnt have reacted the way i did, and to the extent that i did. It was most likely simply the result of an extremely bad day that i had when i posted it.
All of your points are, of course, correct. I now realize that the metro stations see countless visitors everyday, more than one of which has a camera on hand. Each person sees the potential of their photograph in a different way, and each produces a different final product. Yours is, of course, wonderful. The luck factor had also never ocurred to me, and i shall consider it for the future. I was never one for common sense.
And, as i failed to mention previously, congratulations on the DTF, and the huge success of your photograph in general. Keep up the great work.
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beautiful shot... vary retro sci fi looking. added to faves
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A wonderful piece indeed. It does look like the DC metro... I love the colors. Amazing.
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Ah. The classic shot EVERYONE must take when they go to DC and first come into contact with the the air-conditioned subways.
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wow AWESOME! cant get any better than this....PERFECT!......great job
~nice~
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Awesome picture...
Really very simetric.
The blue/green tone... is the perfect touch...
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Dude! Is that the DC Metro?
Which station is that?
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Precisely what I was wondering... I can't quite tell which line it would be, either.
I wrote a poem while I was in D.C. about the metro: [link]
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"taking pictures of amazing, man-made enclosed spaces that are visually appealing and can let the mind run free with possibilities"
i couldnt of said it better my self....
amazing work
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This is Amazing!! I love your photos!! Awsome Job!!!
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wow, the composition is amazing!!! 
but it would be better if the photo were more bigger
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Heh, i enjoy going on the metro for one soul purpose...the architecture in the stations 
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just out of curiousity.......
is that D.C.? It looks a LOT like it
if so...AWESOME ^o^ !
I'm from DC so that's real kool if I'm right, and I'll feel real stupid if I'm wrong
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