Perspective???

An Odd Perspective. Tucson, Arizona, 2013

If you study this image a bit you will eventually note that it captures a very strange perspective on the world. The explanation? This is the infamous “upside-down” building at the northeast corner of Wilmot and Speedway in Tucson (designed by Bob Swaim).

Its mirrored walls are actually tilted outward as they rise above you–it is as if they took a giant glass pyramid and dropped it upside-down into the ground, burying a good portion of the tip. It’s an interesting place to do photography and I’ll need to go back in different lighting situations to see what else it might offer up.

(Curious note: It is a financial institution and I was mildly surprised to not have someone ask me why I was wandering around it, with camera and tripod, at dawn on a weekday.)

And another one of its walls:

Wilmot and Speedway. Tucson, Arizona, 2013