I am a fan of monumental buildings, and in Australia there are few as monumental as Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance. Positioned at the far end of central Melbourne’s main thoroughfare, and thankfully unencumbered by skyscrapers, the Shrine holds court over the city.
I remember having the idea for this picture on a previous visit. Most pictures of the Shrine naturally take in all of it. What I noticed was that many of the amazing details of the architecture tend to get lost in those ‘big picture’ perspectives. That said, it wasn’t until I started working on this photo that I realised just how Roman the front portico looks when isolated from the whole.