Color

While taking these photos, I was trying to focus on the wealth of rich colors that can be attained both at night and during the day.  Because of this I have one shot in daylight and two at night, taken using a long exposure time.  In the day, I think a deep blue sky contrasts the brown wood and the green of the adjacent shrubbery.  At night, the lights of the nearby city and the passing cars illuminate the lower parts of the sky (and the photo) while the upper portions remain a rich dark blue, and the wood and metal of the large doors reflect this gradation as well.

Texture

There are many textures to explore in the natural world, and in my opinion some of the most interesting are those intrinsic in wood.  For each of these pictures there is at least a bit of emphasis on the grain of the wood that makes up the large doors which were the foci of my pictures.  In addition, there were many interesting patterns in the metal used to encase the wood, as it appeared hammered and distressed.  I tried to capture these but still keep an interesting picture by adjusting the focus and attempting to maintain image aspects like the rule of thirds.

Perspective

  

There are a lot of interesting pieces of art and architecture around Arizona, and this is always one of my favorites when I pass by it.  I chose to take these pictures because of the variety of options for different angles and different styles of photo.  In addition, there were a great deal of reflective surfaces, which I think can add intrigue especially when there were so many pictures of the same object.  One of my favorites is the picture where the many different reflections are pointing in different directions up the length of the mirrored wall.