May 18, 2012

ironmongers

it's probably been a long time since there was an ironmongery on the corner of York & Charles, however you can't help but wonder at how important and lucrative this business was, considering they built themselves a fairly substantial building and stamped their name and profession all over it.

6 comments:

  1. As simple as effective. Very good B&W shot, well done! Have a nice weekend.

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  2. A dramatic darkened background effectively highlighting the building features!

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  3. A very good b&w composition! Lovely to see this!

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  4. thanks all! there was a plan about 5 years to turn the upper floors of this building into trendy inner-city flats. pity it fell through, but it's still a gorgeous building...

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  5. Spectacular, particularly in high contrast. A building like that needs to be used.

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  6. Good result from high contrast here. Well captured!

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