Hello Scott. First of all, I find the management of the light excellent (HDR perhaps???) Perhaps it misses a little DoF in order to make perfectly clear the bottom (a detail)
On the other hand , which disturbs me more is the cut on the right which enormously challenges me considering the quality of your photograph in all the remainder. Greetings.

So Guggenheim-like! I like how the orange pops up in the right hand corner. Great job...I imagine it was hard to photograph or crop.

This is great. Like the lines in your photo. The effect of the light gives some interesting colours.
/Jan

Thanks everyone for the comments. Pixim, I think your referring to the crop on the right side? If so, unfortunately there was no crop on the image, this was the entire width, looking down the stairwell. Suppose I could have cropped some off the left to compensate but I don't think it would work. I had no idea if this shot would work until I got home and looked at it on the computer.

the color, the light, the line : everything is perfect in your shot

Nice image. But still missing smth., or rather smbd. for eg. some person warkin' stairs.

The lighting on this shot keeps drawing me in.
I have viewed this quit a few times and really enjoy the colors and the lighting! Wonderful job!

Thanks Mike! It does make the eyes go around and around doesn't it ;-) Cheers.

I luv it! Very strong composition, and wonderful gold tones - Sweet!

Cheers,
jon

Yes, it does :)
Why You croped the righ side od stairs?

I actually didn't crop the right side, that's all there was unforuntately. I couldn't move up high enough to get more of the stairs. In fact this shot was just playing around, I never even realized what I had till I got home and processed it. Someday I may return there with a wider lens and try it again.

Scott, you have an amazing eye for subjects. This shot is great.

the light is fantastic. great HDR processing. but i agree it would be perfect i the right corner wouldn't be cut off.

Muy chula,pero¿qué es la foto?.Saludos.

Wow, great shot and I'm not the only one who thinks so... This reminds me of Momo's staircase at the entrance of the Vatican museum.

Thanks everyone.