3 Steps

Steps leading to offices in abandoned coal mine's admin building. I prefer to present it upside down.
Location
Omuta, Japan
Equipment Used
Canham 8x10 with 4x5 reducer
Film & Developer
4x5 HP5+ Xtol 1+1
Is this print for sale?
  1. Yes
Looks like a close up from part of an Escher drawing. Great work.
 
Bingo! Escher. He had a big influence on me in drawing/painting. I only saw it this way when I saw the print laying upside down on my darkroom counter!Brian, it's neat how sometimes photographs can look like drawings. I am attracted to that look, as a drawer myself. Thank youi!
 
I like this a lot, Andrew. Because of the footprints, you know it's dust, but in this orientation it takes on the natural tone of shadow on the underside of an overhang. It make sense that way, so the brain ignores the footprints.
 
This is more confounding to me than Escher, maybe because of its simplicity. I have a lot of trouble switching perspectives! At first glance, I thought hm, there is a trick here but I do not know what. Beautiful.
 
I didn't see it upside down at first, now I can't see it any other way!
 

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