Look Up

The Walter Pyramid at Cal State Long Beach is where sporting events like basketball and volleyball are played. The shaded side of the pyramid and the cumulonimbus clouds create an interesting light and dark side.

The stairs to the third floor of Liberal Arts-1 on upper campus. I have always been interested in stairs for their intriguing leading lines, lines that subconsciously lead the eye to a specific part of the image and composition.

Photos of buildings at Cal State Long Beach shot on color film offer a different view of things we see every day.

BY RYAN GUITARE

The Theater Arts Building, where performances are held, has vines growing to the roof. They caught my eye as they were unusually growing on the underside.

The Social Science/Public Affairs (SSPA) building on lower campus has white bars that cover the windows parallel to the ground. This picture, like the others, has a light leak, where light seeps into the camera, causing the film to expose with color that wasn’t supposed to be there. The light leak showed up at an angle that contrasted with the white bars, which I found lovely. Window symmetry on the Architecture and Urban Planning building on lower campus. Windows are my favorite to photograph—it is so pleasing to the eye to see symmetry. Taking this photo, I looked up and saw calmness.

A bridge connects the Hall of Science to the Molecular Science buildings. The lines in this photo lead straight to the ball of light caused by the light leak that almost looks like a portal to another universe.

Reflections and shadows on the glass of the Molecular Science building. At certain angles, they reflect another image within the photo. The reflection of the building is almost symmetrical in the 90-degree cut of the architecture.

The Microbiology building on the east side of middle campus near the Hall of Science. I used the lines sloping down to the left to focus the eye on the city behind the building in the distance.