How long has it been since you’ve thought of a city as beautiful? So often these days we end up focusing on what’s wrong with our cities, in terms of crime rate, overcrowding, unemployment, or trash. Yet cities have transformed our lives in many positive ways, and can transform our outlook on things as well, if we just give them a chance. Take the city skyline, for example. We suggest that hanging our skyline photography on your walls might just transform your thoughts and assumptions about cities.
For example, we have a number of absolutely stunning sunset and night time photographs of city skylines. When high rise buildings light up the night sky, we can imagine each of those lights representing a family sitting down to dinner together, or a group of colleagues staying late at work to finish an important project that will transform our lives in ways we cannot yet imagine. All those lights represent people just like us, living and working in community, and remind us that without each other, we really cannot thrive as a society.
Daytime skyline photographs can be just as powerful, especially when they include bridges or other, older architectural elements to provide scale for our eyes. It’s hard sometimes to remember that the modern skyscraper is pretty young, since the structural innovations needed to build them were not invented until the late 1800s. Not only were stronger steel and reinforced concrete needed to build tall buildings, but also elevators, central heating and plumbing pumps. So city skylines are inspiring reminders of all the inventions that have transformed our lives in the past 150 years. If you hang a cityscape in your office, perhaps it will inspire the next great invention!
A particular city skyline can also be inspirational for your personal journey. Are you hoping to work your way up the ladder to your company’s corporate office in Chicago? Hang a Chicago skyline in your home or office for inspiration. Are you planning that trip of a lifetime to another continent? Hang a London or Sydney skyline in your home to encourage you to keep saving toward that goal.
Skyline photography can lift your eyes, your heart and your spirit, so check out our stunning cityscapes today.
