Fort Jefferson Brick Arches Photography | Florida Keys
Repeating Brick Archways and Deep Architectural Perspective
The arches seemed almost endless. Standing inside Fort Jefferson, I was drawn immediately to the way one brick opening framed the next, then the next, until the entire corridor collapsed into a tiny dark point in the distance.
That repetition is what makes the photograph work for me. The first arch is massive and heavy, filling most of the frame, yet every opening beyond it becomes progressively smaller. The eye has nowhere else to go. It is pulled straight through the architecture toward the centre.
I kept the composition deliberately precise because the geometry was already doing everything I needed. Curved brickwork sits against straight vertical walls, irregular handmade surfaces against an almost mathematical sequence of arches. Even the pale floor becomes part of the perspective, narrowing as it travels deeper into Fort Jefferson.
The colour was equally important. Warm browns, reds and muted ochres reveal the variation in the old brickwork rather than reducing it to a single tone. Light entering the corridor catches certain surfaces while others fall into shadow, giving each successive arch its own subtle separation.
I often photograph architecture for exactly this reason. A structure can become something entirely different when I stop looking at the whole building and concentrate on one repeating element. Here, the arches transformed a military fort into a study of depth, symmetry, texture and perspective.
© Dan Kosmayer, 2012
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