Netley #6 RVH Hospital Chapel (slide film)

Nice, but why the tilt? This scene is not in Pisa.

I must say that I DO like the leash on the (unpredictable) kid. This provides solace for the father. Or, more nefariously, is the kid simply holding the dog's leash?

The color accuracy leads me to believe that the 'Precisa' attached to Agfa is not misdirected. - David Lyga

@David Lyga What tilt do you mean? I am not being facetious but I cannot see a tilt. The tower looks straight to me. Is your monitor level? The child is leaning forward slightly as children do when they haven't been used to standing upright for very long. There is quite a steep slope leading up to the tower.

Yes I think the child is just holding the dog's lead and watching the dog return (at some speed) with the ball. The father is holding one of those throwing devices that enable one to throw the ball further. The dog is soaking wet and had been playing in the sea.

I have been very pleased with the Agfa slide film. It used to be very cheap and sold in discount stores (even until recently) but now it is sadly out of production (according to my supplier).

No tilt on my screen. Building is perfectly upright. The ground clearly slopes away and this is tilted in the same way that all hills are tilted

Call the scene " alienation" and sell it for millions as an avant-garde work. None of the living creatures seem to be aware of the presence of any of the others. Only the lady on the far left spoils this illusion as from the scene's perspective, she does seem, from her head's direction, to be slightly aware of the rest of her group.

When Alan Yentob interviews you for BBC4 , just be sure to have a kind of vacant look with voice to match but be sure to convey "depth" to maintain the illusion of "state of the art", "In the vanguard" new age" etc

I may be turning into a debunking form of Gabby Hayes.

@pentaxuser Actually the dog is looking at me which probably proves your point that nobody else is paying the slightest attention to each other. The dog may be interested in the pork pie that I have in my bag, or perhaps the Scotch egg.

I can't stand those effusive arty types or even worse those that "explain" some deep meaning of what the artist meant......It's just a photo, it doesn't explain the meaning of life! On the other hand, if large sums of money were involved I think I could develop such an affectation.

@Svenedin You know, I think that you might be correct, but I really do not know for sure now!

What hit me immediately is the fact that the ground is not level and that makes the building look tilted. Thus, when I look for a short, extended time, I begin to see you are correct ... but when I look longer, there still seems to be a slight tilt to the right. This is one of those things like 'how one's eyes perceive color' (people perceive hues differently) and I am using innate judgement to make this call. The fact that most see the building as dead straight up cannot be conveniently contested by me or others. But what I still manage to 'see' holds bearing for me (and perhaps thankfully so) for ONLY me. Interesting how my perception was contested: I never expected that and owe myself some further thought on this. Thank you. - David Lyga

@David Lyga I do not contest that you see a tilt, it is just that I cannot see it. I can almost convince myself that there might be a tilt but to the left not the right!

I was putting up shelves some years ago and I used a spirit level to get them dead level. I was pleased with my efforts. Then a visitor came and protested that they were not level and this irritated me so I got the spirit level out and demonstrated that they were indeed level. This did not satisfy the visitor who continued to maintain they were “crooked”. Sometime later a handyman was doing some work at my house and I asked him about the shelves. Ah he said, you can’t use a spirit level in an old house like this, nothing is level, straight or true here. You have to put up shelves so they look right, never mind whether they are level or not!

The very foundation might have been off, thus the 'correct spirit level' was not so correct to the eye. I maintain that your building looks like that print is skewed in one direction. However, this is only one perception: mine. - David Lyga

@David Lyga Yes, this chapel is all that survives of the what was once the biggest military hospital on Earth. It occupied a central position and had very long wings on either side. The modern looking windows you see at the front were not windows but communications with corridors within the original hospital. It is possible that this chapel has shifted as a result of the demolition of the rest of the vast building (the chapel was very nearly demolished as well but was saved after a public outcry). The building sits some 150 yards from Southampton water, the sea channel to the Port of Southampton. The land it is built on was swampy and there may have been settling into such soil. Patients were transported by ship and landed at the hospital pier and later via a branch line to the hospital's own railway station. The narrow gauge railway track is still there.

This video explains:

Life is like this: perception is real to us, individually, but we need to recognize that not everyone thinks alike. That is not always easy to do because thinking that way is counter-intuitive. This was a very interesting exercise, Svenedin. - David Lyga

@David Lyga , absolutely and glad it was interesting. Best Wishes, Stephen