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Composition:
The diagonal that goes through the middle of the photo in a smooth arc, just the right size and angle. The horizontal, square stairs juxtaposed with the round vertical pillars. The pillars aren't too much, it's a small portion of the photo, just enough, the plain wall near them gives some separation and breathing room between the vertical and horizontal elements. The portal put in the upper left third being just the right size, see how he has managed to frame the second portal in the first one. Now a heavyweight compositional element here that makes it good is having 3 distinct planes: serene foreground-plane stairs, the mid-plane with the portal & pillars providing the "action", and the brighter far-plane providing context and guiding the eye. It's leading somewhere. It tells a story. I use the 3 plane approach literally all the time when creating scenes from absolutely nothing, as clients usually only give me house/building/object drawings or a model and I have to make the world around it, if I'm not merging it into a real photo, video, or a drone shot. That 3 plane approach works in many scenarios, landscape, architecture, people, whatever.
And bottom line - it's just a nice piece of old architecture. I'm pretty confident that the photographer thought consciously very little of what I just wrote. I've trained people, and have the art-school students come get their job credits at our studio, I'm also a musician, play a few instruments and write lyrics, so in regard of getting the 'arts' or not getting it - what I have noticed over the years is that you either have "it", or you don't. The "it" being sense of beauty, a feel for the composition, flow, arts. You either got it in you or you just don't, and that's usually evident at a young age. If you don't have it - go be a car mechanic or work at an office or something, else you'll be miserable. For your own hobbies - don't let nobody ever stop you.
