step . They get us up . They get us down . And they ’re often so much more beautiful than nature ever intended them to be . Here are 13 reasons you may learnto appreciatethe humble stair .
Winner: Rothman Library
Here ’s my stair shot . Its shot with a Canon EOS 70D at Rothman Library in Toronto .
– Megan Patricia Ross
Upside Down Subway
This is an image from one of my favorite underground place in New York City , from the bottom of the stairway . As a indigen , we tend to top by many places each day without really detect thing around us . Just require to look at things from a unlike perspective sometimes .
– Howie Chen
Condo Case
This is the step pillow slip at my booster condo in North Miami , Florida . I JUST shot this yesterday . I shot this with on a Canon 7D with a 24 - 70 mm f/2.8L II USM . Camera mise en scene : ISO 100,f/13 , 1/40 sec
– Jason Ramsay
Orchard Beach
This photo was take at Orchard Beach State Park in Michigan . Lake Michigan is menage to some of the good sunsets in the world , I was tent during this perfect dark . These stairs take you down 100 ft cliff to an untasted natural beach .
– Joshua Young
Chicago
A plate poser from concrete that I ’ve build , prompt by the Israeli Urban Warfare Facility named “ Chicago ” which is placed originally among Tzeelim Base in Southern Israel . Shot with 4×5 Camera on Fuji Provia 100F Slide Film with a Rodenstock 75 mm Grandagon - N Lens . Natural morning sunlight .
I am an Israeli Artist who lives in New York . I make simulation according to photographs , this is one of them . photograph leave me to inscribe spaces I would n’t have had access to otherwise . Staircases truly enamour me because they lead out of the image and I can not reach where they are going to . This paradigm was shot this calendar week , I would have post another one but it was shot about 5 calendar month ago . stairway in my models officiate as a key ingredient for tension and creating the illusion of space .
– Yoav Friedlander
Vertigo
I sleep together the way lighter casts the phantom on the wall , that looks like another form of stairs in itself , and I flipped the ikon to convey a sense of vertigo . Nikon D40 with 18 - 55 mm kit lens , f/4.8 , 1.3sec , ISO-400
– Wai Mun
Zion National Park
Hey Gizmodo ! I engage this picture at Zion National Park in Utah . I saw your challenge for a photo of staircase and went out on a lookup of unconventional stairs . While hiking at Zion they had these steps carved into the mountains and I thought they were very interesting . It ’s where man contact nature . I used a Nikon D3200 DSLR camera to enchant this shot .
– Vidul Jain
Cow Stairs
This staircase is at Sagamore Hill , which is in Oyster Bay , NY . Now managed by the Federal Park Service , it was the personal residence of former President Theodore Roosevelt , and popularly concern to as “ The Summer White House . ” The stairs are by a cow pasture on the reason provide an easy way over the fencing .
The figure of speech was captured with a Panasonic DMC - ZS9 , and was color balanced and then converted to B&W in Paint.net 4.03 . I thought the B&W brought out the lines of the rough hewn timber of the stairs and the fence , as well as the shadows .
– Jonas Demuro
McGoogan Library of Medicine
primal staircase at the McGoogan Library of Medicine , University of Nebraska Medical Center . The three - narrative 50 foot mural is named “ Life ’s Helix ” , make in 1970 by the artist Bill J. Sammon . It is more relevant today to research than when it was completed over 40 years ago . As Mr. Sammon put it : just as DNA symbolise the storehouse of man ’s genetic information , the library represents the storehouse of man ’s aesculapian noesis . I am one of the professor in the library , and like to say at this point in each depository library tour : “ Libraries are to research as DNA is to life story – you ca n’t have one without the other . ”
I once had a mathematical group of sixth grader on a tour , and asked them to tell me what was on the wall ( I do this will all tours , and get various answer from people – those not need with science generally say ‘ snakes ’ as their first answer . ) The students as a group shout , “ deoxyribonucleic acid ! ” I praised them for their cognition and said that they must have a wonderful scientific discipline teacher to agnize desoxyribonucleic acid so quickly . They said , “ We acknowledge it because we see CSI . ”
I took this with my iPhone 4 , using the VividHDR app . I am not sure if I resized the files as you directed , though I included a smaller one and a enceinte one for your use . I am very glad to divvy up this mental image with you , and care all the best to all contest entrants and reader .
– Teresa Hartman
Quick Trip Down
So I spent a couple hour wander around Downtown Denver wait for interesting step , but only found a couple . On my wheel drive home , I was thinking , “ it ’s too spoilt there is n’t a staircase to nowhere , ” and then I caught this roller coaster with the stairs up the first hill . Nikon D5000 , 1/640 sec , f/10 , 200 iso , 68 mm
– Chris Thai
Hotel Hayward
Not your typical “ staircase ” but a very long red-hot , blistering good afternoon in business district LA , this was the best “ staircase ” that I happen interesting . This was in a very trendy part of the business district domain . I love the older brick , sure-enough sign , old fire escape entwine with the beautiful verdure and American flag on top . The attack escape really await retro without being rundown and broken . I used my Droid Maxx speech sound and increase the contrast , vibrance and saturation a mo to make the stairs stand out and not be drown out by the beautiful brick and flag .
– Kristin Erling
Monk’s Mound
This exposure was taken this good morning ( 9 - 8 - 14)at 7:56 am . The stairs in the photo are just the first part of the long stairs that lead to the top of Monk ’s Mound , the large earthen hummock in the Cahokia Mounds in Collinsville , Illinois , just East of St. Louis , MO . Early in the sunup it ’s not unusual to find hoi polloi using the massive stairway for physical breeding purposes . Shot with a Canon EOS 5D with a Canon 28 - 135 Zoom F. 3.5 - 5.6 Lens . Exposure was 1/800 sec . at f. 3.5 , ISO 400 @28 millimetre , Aperture Priority .
– John Locus
Fantastic entries all around — even if our achiever may technically be an escalator . A new challenge will be announce tomorrow . Until then , find the wallpaper - sized shotson flickr .
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