Nikon D200_50.0mm f/1.8D_1/200sec@f/3.2, ISO100.

Early this afternoon, I was standing behind the Admin building waiting for someone and I started looking around me. I am making it a habit to go pretty much everywhere with my camera, and this has led to keeping my head on a swivel looking for potential photographs. In this case, I was struck by the symmetry and repetition of the three metal stair-rails. Look further, I realized that with the contrast provided by the varying colors and textures was powerful. Then, I thought to myself, “Ah, here is the perfect place to utilize the “stacking perspective” provided by the telephoto lens on my camera!”

It took several photographs to finally arrive at this composition that I liked best.

I post-processed it in Lightroom, using my near-complete workflow process. Pulling ideas from many sources (including Apple, Microsoft, Adobe’s Terry White, Scott Kelby’s 7-point-system, and others), this workflow seems to be working well for me. Look for a post on it in the near future.