One of Nottingham's most iconic building's, the beautiful former Prudential Assurance Building, built between 1893-8
The Nottinghamshire Live website writes "Seldom can a magnificent building have risen in a more difficult site. Set on sloping ground at the fork of King and Queen Streets only an architect of very great ability could have pulled it off. It is by Alfred Waterhouse, an enormously successful Lancashire architect whose most famous buildings are the National History Museum in London and Manchester Town Hall. Of an intense red brick this is first rate architecture at its most successful. It is beautified with Burmantofts terracotta reliefs from Leeds and originally a shaft of light ran straight through the building from top to bottom, illuminating the ground floor office"
In front of the building just out of camera is the Brian Clough statue, the home of Nottingham's speakers corner
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Thanks for the lovely comments. This is a shot from the summer which I never got round to posting. I really like the shot and I am quite proud of it. It now hosts a themed cocktail bar and restaurant , The Alchemist
So Phil is it on sloping grounds or is it an effect of wide angle? I checked your info but it says 0 mm and f2. What kind of lens is that? Just for me to learn architectural photography is tricky. BTW excellent image. Thank you very much
@caterina thakns caterina the lens is a Samyang 12mm f2 lens (known as Rokinon in the USA). It is a manual lens, so you manually focus and turn the aperture ring to your desired f stop. When I say manually focus , if you set the distance to just before infinty and the aperture to f5.6 or higher then everything from front to back is in focus. The exif data cannot record the aperture because if is a manual lens. It cones highly recommended by me and gets top reviews on various websites etc. Samyang do the lens with different camera mounts and it is specifically designed for APS-C sized sensors . I bought the lens in May this year and I always tend to refer to it in my narrative . It is just a great lens
Thanks for the lovely comments. This is a shot from the summer which I never got round to posting. I really like the shot and I am quite proud of it. It now hosts a themed cocktail bar and restaurant , The Alchemist
@suzanne234 the Victorians built some wonderful buildings Suzanne :)
@ivan thanks for youjr visit and fave :