Space, the final frontier. A love of steel and glass - Architectural Japan // Series 2

I guess it doesn't matter if it's landscapes, or architecture I love taking pictures of patterns. Whether it's reflections in a lake, or the symmetry of steel beams I find it worth shooting. I'm not sure why, when I got back many of the structures reminded me of space travel, movies or alien structures. Things people might use for sets.

Inside Kyoto station, if you make your way all the way to the top, there are walkways that traverse the building. I think they built them mostly for the views, but the coating on the windows messes with camera lenses. This left me searching for other things to shoot. I liked the hallways themselves. Out of context they look like walkways on a spaceship - to get between the command pod and engineering.

Continuing the space theme - I thought this building looked like something an alien race left behind on a different planet. I could see explorers climbing to the top and finding an ancient terminal. I can't remember exactly where I took the picture - I think it was outside of Osaka station...but I can't be sure.

Also from inside Kyoto station this last shot reminded me of something from a Space Odyssey - likely it's just the white room. It has something that looks like that 70s, pure, stark vision of the future. As opposed to a more gritty dystopian take.

Space certainly wasn't the theme I was going for...but sometimes after a picture is taken, it tells you a different story.