A picture I took on a dark, foggy day of a bit of the cliff behind our house.
And below, a shadow and reflection on the kitchen ceiling panelling.
The bright reflection is made by the black ceramic cooktop and the shadows are of a light fixture, some wiring, a big round terracotta bowl and the metal pipes of a rack it’s sitting on.
A Bad Guide 
It’s so hard for me to look at a painting or photograph before looking at the captions. I have made some progress, but looked at the lower photo only briefly before diving into the text. Now it’s all spoiled.
Aha. That’s good to know, I’ll try to remember. I thought a thorough explanation would help, but of course it’s the opposite, it’s just prosaic and tedious. I like an explanatory text with architecture pics, that’s probably why I wrote it.
Anyway, these photos lose a lot by being reproduced so small. I normally look at them huge on my computer screen, but WordPress insists on them being tiny.
I can well imagine that an architecture drawing or picture is not hurt by a bit of explanation – for an architect. But Pretty Pictures For The Masses don’t need the concept art treatment.
Of course that’s an exaggeration, a little explanation never hurt anyone anywhere. This is about a particular problem of mine – for 23 hours a day I am more interested in words than images, so my eye is drawn to picture captions and surrounding text, where I stick as to the tar baby.
When I was a student, I had to train myself at museums & galleries to look at the work before I read any accompanying text. You can usually tell more in an instant looking at a painting or an object than you can from two minutes of reading about it, so it ought to be an easy switch. It wasn’t, for me. The text is a crutch, and that’s fine, but in certain circs you have to show it who’s boss.
Hey, Stu isn’t the boss of you! I like explanatory text, and it’s easier for him to train himself not to look at it than for me to intuit the missing explanation. At any rate, wonderful photos as always!
You’re the master of the well-written explanatory text, Language.