Andy McDonald Black and White Photos

  The Building Overlook Towers in Herndon VA is close to Washington Dulles Airport. It is a 9 storey office block with suites, including the US Headquarters of Airbus. The building was designed by Noritake Associates and was opened in 2007. The façade is composed of precast architectural panels and mirrored glass curtain walls.  The Photograph For the first time in over a year I needed to make a work trip. I always make a point of taking a camera and one or two lenses when I travel as you never know when you might see a photo opportunity.  This time I was visiting our US HQ. I had the Sony A7RII and Laowa 15mm f/4.5 Shift lens with me which I used to take this photograph. Clearly this photograph is all about the shape of the building and the many, many windows (464 individual panes, which all had their own selection). Once selected, I abstracted the windows using various gradients layered onto each other. Once I had decided how to handle the glass on this building I moved...

  The Building Opened in 2022 and designed by CPMG Architects, the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Building is one of the newest buildings on the Science Park in Nottingham. The hub space contains a prominently positioned café, meeting rooms and outdoor seating located on the pedestrian route between the science park and the nearby tram stop. The hub space is celebrated visually with a double height glazed curtain wall under a large cantilever of office space which serves as a protective canopy. The façade is a rhythmic pattern of modules in a combination of full height glazed elements and high quality dark grey cladding panels with featured vertical seams, at car park level a complementary gold coloured open mesh screening system is used. The Photograph I'd arranged to meet a friend at the Science Park for a photo walk. It was a  dull and somewhat damp Sunday morning in December but flat diffused light works well for me as deep shadows and bright reflections can be very difficult ...

  The Building Designed by Building Design Partnership and opened in 2001 as part of the Science centre. The building is clad in Titanium, one of the first Titanium clad buildings in Britain, as well as being the first IMAX cinema in Scotland.  The Photograph Although I have only processed this picture this week, I took this back in October during a short trip to Glasgow. Staying in the city centre, we took a short-ish Subway trip out to Govan and then had a pleasant walk to the Science Centre at Pacific Quay. The main building is impressive, but the IMAX particularly caught my eye due to its barrel-like shape and Titanium cladding. This picture is a single image taken with a Laowa 15mm f/4.5 Shift lens on a Sony A7RII. See more of my pictures at my Gallery