Here are three mandalas that were created based on photos of architecture. This series ended up looking quite a bit different with each one having a distinctly different look to it. It probably has something to do with the range of photos I based them off of.
Here is the first image I took while waiting at a crosswalk on the way to work. Way in the back you can see the tall black building formerly known as the Sears Tower now known as the Willis Tower.
After editing the photo it ended up looking like a spiral of buildings being created continuously in a spiral sort of like the movie inception. That's an awful lot of office space lol.
The office building go on forever and spiral continuously with all kinds of productive paper pushing workers inside churning out new financial assets. Let's hope they never get audited because at the very beginning of the spiral of accountants the first guy made a decimal point error on the form. Now their trillion dollar economy is only worth more like $1,000.
The next photo is from the Milwaukee Art Museum. The whole interior is white like this with all sort of strange ribs and curves. It kind of reminds me of being inside an huge old nautilus shell, or maybe inside a rib cage of some kind of whale that got washed up on the beach.
This one's mandala departed quite a bit from the original photo. It turned into a central star shape with a gold ring surrounding it. Perhaps this is a macro view of a radioactive atom. Or maybe it is a left over particle that got smashed into bits in the Hadron Collider.
Watch out this particle is unstable... As it turns out they discovered the particle that creates black holes. This one is already starting to pull in particles nearby it. From here the mass will increase exponentially until a critical mass is reached and a portal into an empty universe is opened.
This next photo is from a botanic garden gift store in Traverse Bay in Michigan. They had an interesting cellar ceiling in the back with a bunch of antique equipment on the walls. The added led stripe lighting really lit up the bricks in the ceiling in an interesting way.
After editing the photo it turned into some underground pit with an ornate floor at the bottom. You have to repel down into it and avoid various traps along the way to get the secret artifact at the bottom. There are various bricks on the pit's wall that will trigger arrows and blades if you accidentally touch one. Towards the bottom there are four boulders that will roll down on top of you if the main artifact is removed from the center pedestal.
The pit tends to attract lots of grave robbers as mirrors reflect sunrays inside it and highlight the golden bricks. Greed overtakes anyone who looks inside and they end up tripping the trap. Towards the bottom there is a collection device that deposits the grave robber bodies into a large antlion's jaws.
That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)