About the Image(s)

I took this image last week during a trip to Miami, Florida, in the tropics of Southeast USA. I went to Vizcaya Gardens and Museum, which is a 100 year old mansion. I couldn't get a good photo of the stairwell looking down since it was so dark down below, so I pointed the camera up towards the skylight. I did a lot of postprocessing, trying to lighten the steps towards the center of the image and darken the edges, in order to draw the eye into the center. I cropped out a light that was center right and which was throwing the lights and darks off balance on the right side, and removed a few spots/decorations. I used Topaz AI to denoise. I plan to submit this for my camera club's black and white competition. 1/60 sec, f5.0, ISO 12800.