I always thought it was funny how we personify buildings and other abstract objects. And perhaps this is in part due to lighting. Coming home from a rehearsal, I see the Science Library from a different light. (See what I did there?) I see the building every day and find that, like most good architecture, the building exhibits different moods depending on the angle, lighting, and perhaps the emotional state of the viewer. Here I'm elevated at a distance as I leave Aldrich park. The aura of the building gives off an odd mix of creepy and majestic. Here the architecture is imposing and the dimming daylight surrounded by the low dim of street light, along with the light inside the building, almost makes the space look spooky and haunted.
Oh yes! There is a lot of dramatic lighting adding to the theatricality of this photo! The huge building appearing mostly as a dark silhouette with dramatic and unnatural uplighting at the base adding to that majestic eeriness. As well as the row of lights on either side of the path leading to the building helping to create this depth and a forced perspective of the image. Then there's also the setting sun creating a glow that causes a haloing effect around the rim of the building. It's a really neat, complex photo! Great!
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