The Wells Fargo tower in downtown Houston, Texas has this wonderful circle-in-a-square thing that sits about 12 feet above street level over the walkway between the street and the front door of the building. It's just begging for people to shoot pictures through it. Unfortunately, to do so means you have to be 10 feet inside the Wells Fargo property line and this makes their security people very worried. I shot a similar image a couple of years ago but wanted to get it right on my last visit so returned and managed to shoot off this 1 bracket before the nice security lady sent me packing.

Next time, I'm going to try writing for permission first since I think there's another great blue-hour picture to be had from this position too.

On a technical note, this was shot with the fisheye lens but I decided to correct for the distortion in post processing so you don't see the usual curvy appearance here. Knowing this, I would likely use the 14-24mm next time since it's actually wider than the fisheye after you remove the distortion.

Posted on Thursday, November 17th, 2011 in: All Images, Architecture, HDR, Architecture, building, downtown, houston, skyscraper, texas, tx

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• Heath O'Fee on November 17th, 2011 at 9:43 am

  Nice one, Dave. Liked it when I saw a preview, still like it now
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• Mark Meal on November 17th, 2011 at 9:59 am

  Really nice composition, Dave. Viewing on my phone right now. Can’t wait to check on large screen.
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• LensScaper on November 17th, 2011 at 2:15 pm

  That’s one of the most imaginative architectural shots I’ve seen for quite a while. We have that type of security pest in London too – mostly they are talking b**lshit!
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• Allie Roqueta on November 17th, 2011 at 6:31 pm

  Wonderful perspective, it sucks you right in!
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• Toad Hollow Photography on November 21st, 2011 at 4:31 pm

  LOVE this shot, my friend! Great framing and composition here, a truly great architectural study!
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• Dave Wilson on November 21st, 2011 at 4:36 pm

  Thank you, sir! Greatly appreciated.

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