For this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge, the prompt is “architechture.” Since I don’t have a lot of fancy tools at my disposal for altering photos, I decided to choose a building and pick it apart. I thought what better place to look than Japan, where aesthetics is everything.
Here’s a picture I took in December of 2014, of the Disney store in the Shibuya section of Tokyo. Click on the pictures for a closer look:
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- The whole building, for perspective
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- Who wouldn’t want to go in? Note the sign that says 7F… that means the store is 7 floors high.
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- Above the entrance The store inside is tiny in square footage. It’s all upwards, via a skinny circular staircase, on which you have to squeeze past the people going the other way.
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- This is where you come out – the cash registers in most stores in Japan are at the back.
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- Above the exit is all interesting textures – for no particular reason. There are no windows in the store.
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- Fancy frontage, but not part of the store. It’s all between the entrance and the exit.
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- And finally the roof, with the obligatory plants. The Japanese grow things anywhere they can – and it’s all beautiful.
If you’d like to participate in the prompt, click here for Dale’s page, and/or here to go to K’lee’s place. Go on – it’s fun!
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