nice one

Really special in mono. I can imagine myself coming down there in Busby Berkley mode, and tripping over my flipflops.

Wonderful! The B&W really adds to the atmosphere! Great job!

stunning B&W! RS

Love the perspective and the geometry. The mosaics between the rungs are a wonder and makes the ladder very special. Your capture of the figure in the window,seen through the bars and the lantern, are special too. Wonderful in B/W!

Beautiful capture of one of my favourite types of architecture; I thought it had to be somewhere other than here, you don't see many stucco buildings with Mexican tile accents here. Which is too bad, IMO :)

Stairway to Heaven..... Or at least just a little closer... Beautiful capture, Tara, and an excellent choice for black & white!

Nice range from white/white to black/black. Wonderful pattern repetition in the tiles and ironwork. And the figure is the cherry on top. Outstanding black and white.

This is wonderful Tara! love the gradations.

A great choice Tara, this is beautiful.

OHH ! THat is indeed a beautiful staircase and even with Decorative bricks. Superb presentation, Tara.

excellent!

Love the choice of the monochromatic theme with this structure! Exquisite choices that bring out all the beautiful architecture and hard work that went into this.... Great lighting as well my Friend, and I do hope that you have a very restful and enjoyable long weekend!

Wonderful capture and great tones !Splendid B&W !

Great image! :)

Excellent Hugs Susan~

And you took this when light was flat...high over head as I recall. I too really like the geometry here. I had little use for the stuff when trying to get through it in college, but now with no pop quizzes or tests to worry about, I love it:)

Superb form!!!

excellent light and shadow

this is cool my mind and eyes like much warm hugs, Linda Kaye

How amazing! I'm so behind in commenting, but that's not surprising; it just means I get to discover new things for a longer period of time. Like this particular gem! WOW! I can imagine how brilliant it must be in color, but I have to say that your choice to use black and white is spot-on-perfect; all of the details come out that way, especially the always-subtle business that always goes on between shapes when they start doing that up/down/in/out and over-thataway kind of thing. That's the kind of stuff I like, and you know, this particular image makes me think that Hej or some other desert-dwelling, onion-worshipping person has built these steps: okay, not Hej...he has a different job, but maybe his brother, or cousin, or uncle, or uncle's neighbor's brother-in-law's nephew's classmate, or some such person. Of course now you have me wondering if there are any onion-skins in a little cage in that window. One never knows. This is brilliant. It's making a trip into my favorites.

What to say after Chipka ? :)) Very well done !

O yes, this kind of pictures I really like, how wonderful this light is

with all the discussions of b&w between you, bill & me, you've moved-in and made a very sensuous b&w, with sepia tones and even slightly greenish tones; and a softness that makes this stairway feel like a dream. The stucco wall on our far right is a punctuation mark to the piece: Everything moves back from it. You've framed the spilling stairwell perfectly by cutting it off as it spills into the left-most frame. And the piece is awash in deep grays, sensuous & soft-feeling, offsetting the rocklike nature of the facade. Just shows how one can find art in many places if one knows how to extract it from inside the picture. A beautiful soft vision, and a fine example of how many ways to use b&w...