BinhPham Photography
Lady in Pink - Charles's Palace - Alhambra, Granada, Spain
Overcast and light raining that day forced all visitors to be inside this great looking structure inside Alhambra palace.
It was not easy in post to get all of the columns straight with my wide angle 20mm lens :), taken hand-held in dim sunlight.
F8.0, 20mm, 1/80 ISO 400.
Charles’s Palace was begun in 1526, but never completed.
Charles V’s Palace. © Rosa Salevy.
It’s an immense granite square, enclosing a large, circular courtyard. It is structurally imposing, as befits the imperial title that Charles wore. Its enormous façade connotes power, dignity, solemnity; it is majestic, aloof. The heavy-looking, bevelled stones of the lower half of the façade settle the building solidly on the ground. The impression of weight is inescapable. Straight vertical and horizontal lines predominate; square and rectangular windows are larger and more prominent than the small circular ones. A pediment over the doorway and four accompanying half columns betray classical influence, as do the triple pediments and half columns immediately above. Ionic pilasters (a rectangular column attached to and projecting from a wall) between the upper windows maintain the classical flavour.
Lady in Pink - Charles's Palace - Alhambra, Granada, Spain
Overcast and light raining that day forced all visitors to be inside this great looking structure inside Alhambra palace.
It was not easy in post to get all of the columns straight with my wide angle 20mm lens :), taken hand-held in dim sunlight.
F8.0, 20mm, 1/80 ISO 400.
Charles’s Palace was begun in 1526, but never completed.
Charles V’s Palace. © Rosa Salevy.
It’s an immense granite square, enclosing a large, circular courtyard. It is structurally imposing, as befits the imperial title that Charles wore. Its enormous façade connotes power, dignity, solemnity; it is majestic, aloof. The heavy-looking, bevelled stones of the lower half of the façade settle the building solidly on the ground. The impression of weight is inescapable. Straight vertical and horizontal lines predominate; square and rectangular windows are larger and more prominent than the small circular ones. A pediment over the doorway and four accompanying half columns betray classical influence, as do the triple pediments and half columns immediately above. Ionic pilasters (a rectangular column attached to and projecting from a wall) between the upper windows maintain the classical flavour.