Fun With Perspective

Ted the Test Lead has impressed on me that it’s very hard to take good architectural pictures with a standard camera (unless you buy a really expensive perspective-correcting lens). Here’s an example of what he’s talking about.

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I took this picture from across the street. Note that the left-hand side of the building and the flag pole are both vertical in this picture, as they should be….but the rest of the building looks remarkably funny.