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| Visitor Center Patio, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado © Doug Hickok All Rights Reserved The decorative architecture of the Great Sand Dunes National Park Visitor Center accentuates a brilliant blue sky. Its color and design suggests a Native American influence, especially that of the ancient pueblo style. Pueblos were buildings made of adobe mud and wood, often constructed one on top of the other to form apartment-like villages. Spanish explorers in the West were the first to use the term pueblo, which means "town". The Anasazi were thought to have begun building pueblos around 750 - 900 AD, although this Visitor Center is considerably more modern. |
Friday, July 20, 2012
Go West XXXVII - Pueblo Style
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Fabulous POV, Doug, and colors. I could just stare at this...which would make any Native American quite pleased, I'm sure. :)
ReplyDeleteColors, framing, everything is superbly successful in this photo. Nice shot Doug !
ReplyDeleteGreat image as always but I also enjoyed learning about Pueblos. You are so right about the colour of the timber making the blue sky sing. Wow, so intense, lovely.
ReplyDeleteThe colour of the timber seems to have been designed to provide the perfect contrast against that azure blue sky Doug. It's Art, that's what it is.
ReplyDeleteWonderful work!
ReplyDelete...and a pretty good advertisement too. For something?
ReplyDeleteintriguing composition.
ReplyDeleteAdorable patterns, shapes and shadows...
ReplyDeleteIt's similar with the Visitor Center in Albuquerque, NM. nICE!
ReplyDeletevery nice angles and lines
ReplyDeleteI like this! Great contrasting colors and textures.
ReplyDeleteFantastic leading lines and rich color Doug--nicely seen!
ReplyDeletegreat sun and shadow!
ReplyDeletegreat geometric lines
ReplyDeletegreat angles and lines, and superb colour management !
ReplyDeletePerfectly composed, strictly with the diagonal. Great work!
ReplyDeleteHave a nice day.
good decision to leave it empty like that.. it seldom rains in the west anyways.. :)
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