Main House Stairs

Posted by Jen (Alpharetta, United States) on 19 April 2007 in Architecture and Portfolio.

This is the backside of the stairs to the main lobby of the hotel. You can see the concrete that actually attached the stone stairs to to the hotel.

I love all the wonderful texture and tones of the river rocks that made up the staircase.

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Comments (12)

objectif-plume from Belgium

il y a du beau et du tendre dans cette belle photo

19 Apr 2007 6:05am

Art Monkey from Salt Spring Island, Canada

lovely close up - I love looking at rocks - (even if some of them are in cement) - nice one

19 Apr 2007 7:07am

@Art Monkey: Thanks!

Craiger from Vacaville, California, United States

I love those textures and tones as well! Great work!

19 Apr 2007 10:22am

LittleKitty from Shunfu, Singapore

Makes the mundane interesting. Good job!

19 Apr 2007 12:53pm

Evie from Fairfax, Virginia, United States

There is lots of texture and color to be seen here. Thanks for seeing it and sharing. I usually pass by these things and miss details like this.

19 Apr 2007 12:59pm

@Evie: Thanks for stopping by and commenting Evie! Glad you like it!

amy from Rocky Mountain House, Canada

Good eye with the rocks, Jen. Nice tones and textures!!

19 Apr 2007 2:15pm

@amy: Thanks Amy! I love to see you've visited!!

Rahul from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Yep the tones and textures are cool, and you shot it very well too. Crisp and clear. :)

19 Apr 2007 3:49pm

@Rahul: Thanks Rahul

treeeeesh from Melbourne, Australia

like how the rocks seem to interwind with the cement. (:

19 Apr 2007 5:05pm

Ken McCoy from Orlando-Daytona Beach, FL, United States

But don't put your hand where you can't see :) Those upper rocks kind of resemble the teeth of a dragon...

19 Apr 2007 9:34pm

@Ken McCoy: No way my hand was going in there...looks like really great place for a snake, and Jen doesn't like snakes LOL. (you are right about the teeth, great imagination Ken).

bronzebilly u.k. from cardiff, United Kingdom

hey ho Jen--nice coloured stones- you've given them back they're place in history--nice one--billy

19 Apr 2007 10:42pm

@bronzebilly u.k.: Hey Billy...thanks...it's amazing how nowadays things fall apart so quickly and all the "old" stuff are still standing strong, must have built it better back then : )

Anne from White Rock, Canada

Lovely rock texture and details - I love pics of rocks too! If you ever travel the Pacific Highway 1 (coast road) California, don't miss the turn to the Madonna Inn, it's at St. Louis Obispo. The whole hotel/restaurant is built out of local rock. The men's toilet is a tourist item because it has a rock waterfall which turns on when they step forward to the stall. People are always willing to stand guard whilst women go in and photograph it. Must get some of my old photos out of the storage box and rescan them. If you want to see a rock honeymoon hotel, this place is fabulous.

Sorry Jen - I'm rambling on - t'was the rocks that did it. Just love this series on the old hotel. ;)

19 Apr 2007 10:55pm

@Anne: Sounds like a cool place to go and cool toilet LOL!
I would love to see the pictures whenever you get a chance to scan them!!
Thank you so much for your visits and comments!

Mike Cash from Kiryu, Japan

I also got the "dragon's tooth" visual from that upper ledge. If you take the horizontal red portion to be a calf, and the rock immediately above it to be a thigh, and the 3 or 4 gray rocks running to the right to be a torso....it looks like a dinosaur eating a man whole.

22 Apr 2007 10:39am

@Mike Cash: You have one heck of an imagination Mike! : )

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