I've always had interest in photographing architecture. Usually during travel - capturing different cultures' architectural stylings as I experienced living in or visiting different countries. I have a small portfolio of architecture photos going way back to the 1980s, archived in slide pages, that at one point were for sale via my stock photo agency.
More recently, of course, it's far easier to capture a larger number of images of any subject with digital cameras, and my architecture image portfolio has grown substantially. These days I create these images simply for fun - I don't consider myself an "architectural photographer" - though I keep a small number of such images in a collection on my primary website, and occasionally I'll be contacted by a client or random art lover who inquires about buying a print or licensing a digital file.
Generally my favorite architecture subjects have been large buildings in urban settings: the larger the city, the more variety of subjects, I suppose. And while I've never had much affinity for barns or agricultural buildings of the Midwest USA near the city where I live, I do sometimes get excited about a lone shack, a tin shed, or an abandoned ranch in the Mountain West, where I often visit. And of course, what photographer can say no to a fishing shack in New England, or a lighthouse on the shore of one of the Great Lakes. Many of these latter subjects I tend to approach more as "scenic" subjects than architecture, however. In an urban setting, by contrast, I'm generally photographing architectural details - trying to create an interesting artistic design simply out of a pattern of doors, windows, fixtures, or textures of a building - rather than attempting to capture the entire building as an urban landscape.
From time to time over the years - but more actively in the past few years - I've become much more intrigued with creating architectural detail images from buildings on university campuses. Larger universities tend to have a great variety of architectural styles (some quite notable), well-kept grounds around them (helpful if a foreground/background is included in the photograph), and are generally photographer friendly (as opposed to some locations where a guy with a camera exploring the different angles/sides/views of a building can lead to questions or a visit from a security guard - which is exactly what happened while creating the campus scene image with clouds below, created on a private university campus in a small midwestern town).
Many of the photos shared here are from this group discussed above - buildings on university campuses that I've captured over the past 9 months or so. The remaining few are favorite buildings I frequent for various reasons, that I've photographed in different light at different times over the past few years. Images of this type are fun to create, give an opportunity to exercise one's creative eye, and don't require elaborate camera setups.
Thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoy the photographs.