Receding Planes
Depth & Layers Samuel Walters Depth & Layers Samuel Walters

Receding Planes

A depth-building strategy where the frame is constructed from overlapping layers—walls, buildings, fences, lots, signs, trees—so that space steps backward in clear stages. Receding Planes emphasizes how the city is built: surfaces in front of surfaces, corridors inside corridors.

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Glassy Eyes
Depth & Layers Samuel Walters Depth & Layers Samuel Walters

Glassy Eyes

Glassy Eyes is the practice of treating windows as the city’s gaze: repeating panes that read like pupils, grids that feel like a thousand watching eyes, and reflective glass that turns a building into a living surface. The subject isn’t “a building” so much as the expression created by its windows—orderly, anxious, playful, severe, curious.

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Horizon Harmonics
Depth & Layers Samuel Walters Depth & Layers Samuel Walters

Horizon Harmonics

Most photographs rely on a single horizon to anchor the viewer. Horizon Harmonics is the practice of finding a "sequence" of horizons within a single frame—edges where color, material, or light shift abruptly. By aligning these secondary horizons so they run parallel, you create a visual "resonance" that gives the image a sense of immense, orderly scale.

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