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In the beautifull town of Compiegne, France, about 100 km from Paris, I found this very old house, walls, closed window and door.
I gave me the impression of "other times" and even more as it was in the center of the city, where all other doors and windows were so different. (I'll show some of them another time too)
It was early in the morning, so it could be that someone still lives there.
From Nancy Old walls. If only they could talk and tell us there stories. Photographically, it is always a question. Do you try these images straight on or from an angle? As we learned last month, it is difficult either way.
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Taken last night with this class in mind... makes a nice contrast to Julie's photo
Monitoriing the security cameras.
From Nancy Great comparison to Julie's shots above. Where as old buildings provide portals into the past, new ones into the future? (I read ahead). What is interesting is that this building could be in any moderately developed city. I'm sure I could find something very similar in southern California.
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Why are we drawn to take pictures of just windows and doors. [Nancy]
Because they are a kind of threshold, a barrier sometimes but also the point of passage between a life inside and one outside, between the private and the public, the domestic and the foreign.
Windows are a kind of lens, and (often) also a kind of mirror.
They offer a picture of the street already framed.
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Nancy, although not taken from the street but of the street, I hope counts as it contains both a window and a door. I did not see what she was writing but I imagine some sort of diary. The flow of life on the street feeding her reflections.
From Nancy Yes, I like this sentiment very much. We must incorporate through the window too. Either here or in another thread later this month. What do the bystanders see peering out into the street?
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This one is taken from the street. A door and a window. Taken in one of the poorest, most drab corners of Leeds, near the motorway that brings cars in from London and south.
Dramatic though it is, i would like to go back to better capture the strange purple light that fills the interior of this fast food outlet. (So a visit in late evening, before night has fallen completely.) That may involve me having to buy some of the food. Do think it will be worth it?
From Nancy Most of you already do much more for your photo than I, so you may need to sacrifice and buy a slice and a soda. What I love about this photo are the neon lights and their reflection on the parked car. Again, I pay very careful attention to your use of light, you are a master.
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From Nancy Oz does what Oz does best. The view through the window into a different scene, a voyeuristic view. They may know you are there, but they pay no heed. Oz and Briggate have an amazing gift at this.
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The photographer has joined the circle of that conversation.
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There are Windows and Windows, at the same town that the picture I published this morning, from Compiegne's center, here are others, I'd say more caracteristic, but it is not really true: all of them coexists.
In this picture, there is more then one, big and ornate window, there are also the two windows of the cave, visible under it.
From Nancy Who lives there? What do they see when they look out their big fancy window into the cold world? Do they look out the window at all? Nicely captured and an intriguing place.
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playing with tilting, I am fascinated to create an abstraction with this stained, abandoned, broken and beautiful window.
From Nancy A mystery indeed. I like your compositional approach. What new angle can I find? Not enough that the subject itself was interesting, Mdumlao98 must also find a unique way to show it to us. Thank you.
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Window in Basel
Window in Sevilla
From Nancy Two beauties. I especially like the one from Sevilla. Have you considered some of the perspective corrections on the one from Basel? It is interesting, two windows so far apart, but both in the same style (to a lay-person).
Yes indeed when I assembled the two windows here I thought I should do a perspective correction on the first one. I have now uploaded a corrected version of the Basel window and replaced it above. Here you can see the uncorrected original version.
From Nancy Indeed, with the perspective correction, now they make a perfect set.
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I took this before I ever had the slightest notion of what "photography" was supposed to be...
Particularly the image viewable through the door when seen over the fountain struck me. I also like the idea that the other paintings are obscured by the windows.
Background: Gallery just off Granville Island in Vancouver, BC. The fountain in the foreground "hides" the walkway behind when viewed at just the right angle...
From Nancy I had thought this was rain until I read your description. Your instincts on this one created a wonderful image. I see a man, head in hand, distraught over trying to leave the gallery in the pouring rain. The b&w also works extremely well to add to this distraught feeling.
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Where as old buildings provide portals into the past, new ones into the future?
[comment by Introducing Nancy in another forum]
From Nancy Past and Present and Future all in one. Thanks!
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May a city be presented by windows and doors only, mostly? I do not know, but here it is a taste, as I have seen and taken, in Limerick, Ireland. In the guide is told "not much to see": we loved it from the first hour! (and I did find so nice people, even in the poorer quaters) I was there in june this year.
My first photo, the evening I arrived (and went to look for a pub to eat)
I discovered after a few images, there was an abandined station of gaz
One may try to decorate, even simple windows, from outside
or from inside (all windows in that street had something showing)
And when there is no more anything then a wall, nothing behind it. one can paint it like it was still a door, who know leading where,
one can still make believe... and near it paint two windows too: who may or not be there some time ago
I feel a lot of forth to survive, lot of energy in all those.
The other, "pritty" towns made also a great impression on me, in Ireland, but there is such a force to survive in Limerick and definitively, there is a lot to see too.(apart from those window)
There is at least the door leading to a dream, weather old or future.
From Nancy Where to begin?
The top one, all knocked out, why has this not been either repaired or torn down. To me it speaks loudly of tragedy.
I am delighted by the one of the painted door and window on the bare wall. I did not even realize that all three were just painted on. An imaginative soul has made their mark.
Finally, does anyone know the significance of a door painted in red? In Savannah I learned that decorations with a pineapple was a sign of hospitality. Does painting your door red have some similar significance?
Does anyone have any photos from the southern USA with pineapple decorations?
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Found in a narrow alley near a busy shopping street. I like the slim windows in a round wall.
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This was shot in the same alley. I love the diferent reflections in the windows.
From Nancy Reflections are always facinating. They exist when the sun and angle are just right, then they are gone. There is a place in Boston's Copely Square where the entire reflection of a small historic church can be seen in the reflection of a modern mirrored glass skyscraper.
Ah, you can find one of everything on flickr. Here it is Trinity Church reflected on the side of the Hancock building. Photo by davidnikonvscanon
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Many amazing examples here, Briggate's neon lights, Ozzie's self image, Lye Tuck-Po's Oriental reflection, Tanakawho's graceful tree and windows...
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i love the mood and the colors of this picture..taken peeking into a coffe in downtown cairo..
From Nancy The colors and geometries are beautiful, but also provides a mood. Not the hustle and bustle of the American city, but a more relaxed mood - sitting reading the paper and watching the world go by in a big airy space.
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The Grand Arch in La Defense, Paris.
From Nancy Technically, I am very appreciative of all the perfectly straight lines and square corners. Also, look at what the architect has done - the windows are exactly the same dimensions as the doors. Until I looked a few times, I thought it was just 4 windows. Wonderful capture.
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I love the peek through the Cairo doors, too and makes such a contrast with the complete lack of transparency in La Defense. Great reflections, similar in some ways to those of tanakawho, while Lye Tuck-Po has captured something really atmospheric, very like the Japanese poetry I love to read.
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Through the archway of the Hall of Justice in Guadalajara Mexico. Again, the old meets the new as you look from the historic place, through the plaza and onto some fairly new apartment buildings.
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Once a door now a window, taken on a busy street in an old market town in southern England. The buildings here date back to the 12th century and clearly you can see the evidence of old in the stonework and the new in the window frame and traffic pole. In the top left writing can be seen engraved into the stone. Apart from the old and new there is some curiousness as to whats behind the closed curtains and what was this once rather grand entrance used for.
From Nancy It almost looks as if there were several stages of closing down this door and/or several repairs. This photo looks great in B&W which really brings out all the different textures and layers.
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4 doors, Buenos Aires
From Nancy The geometries are perfect, but it is the paint scheme that really makes this standout. I wonder which owner decided on the paint scheme? Can you see them out there looking at the doors, thinking it over. One can of this color paint, one can of that. Or it could have been this was the paint that was left over from other things.
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Doors and windows in street photography.
This one was taken outside of the Louvre.
I love the life that the walking silhouettes transfer to the building.
From Nancy What a wonderful view caught at the perfect time of day. The wash of the sky reminds me of the paintings inside. I'm sure I.M. Pei would be very pleased with this perspective.
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Capturing the essence of street photography in my case implies to capture the life going on... this one was taken inside of a small restaurant at Alamos Sonora, Mexico.
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I am fully in agreement with Felipe Guerra.
Images are more just sceneries, they touch our hearts, our minds and project feelings, artistic impressions...
Reflections from a window of a neon sign store, mid of Hollywood. USA
(Daily activities - Art works)
Chinese theater's entrance (front door), Hollywood,
(Cultural - State of mind)
Windrow of consciousness, NYC, ground zero.
(Conflict - History)
From Nancy I am hardly qualified to comment on these wonderful images. The one of the Grauman's Chinese Theater brings back all sorts of memories. I saw the premier of Mary Poppins there when I was probably on 5 or 6 years old. By interesting coincidence, this theater was in the LA news today. Seems it has been bought by a developer group which also owns several other important LA landmarks. It appears to be in good hands. www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/la-fi-hollywood3sep03,1,...
I suppose this is precisely what a good photo should do for its viewer - spring the imagination into life.
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doors details..
This was taken in Saigon, Viet Nam, Jan 2005. Not too many old style doors were still left in the gentrified street, but this one was used as an appealing entry to an artist' shop. I chose this one as an "old" door because it was a typical representation of the "old vietnamese style", meaning craftmanship from before the communist revolution.
But than, as I went through my sets, I discovered that the meaning of "old" did in fact refer to some different periods of time, according to which country I was in, yes!
Thanks, Julie, for pointing this out..
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old life, daily life
This one was taken in a small village in the South of France. Here the "old" struck me in a similar way as for Nancy and Julie, refering to some far past period of time (maybe the 12th century), where people lived in a certain way and where maybe some echos of these ways were preserved, standing the passing of time.
From Nancy The set is beautiful, but this is the one that most stirs my imagination.
The window has been there for some time, building old with treasure of history. But the curtain is so bright and white - a new beginning? Fresh flowers and warm plants. What is the real story here?
@Julie: Oops, I realized that this one was still marked as private!.. Now it's fixed.
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another kind of old
Taken on the grounds of a monastery in central Mexico. This door is the entrance to the ground maintainance work area, but could well be any wooden door built on affluent properties in Latin America in the golden years of plantations, haciendas and religious institutions.
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Abandoned barn in arkansan countryside, USA. Big enough for one man, speaks a lot to me of the work and lifestyle of the builder. As if he was still there, letting the wind in. Would that count as a piece of the new old ?!..
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@fraserphotos, great example: what a fascinating frame for those three windows! Walls from 12th century! I heard that in that time, or later perhaps, one had to pay taxes according to sizes of the windows, so lot of people made them small. What town is in it?
Then with @pele we go to Buenos Aeres and four differently painted shutters (but why in small size.)
@Felipe shows us the pyramides through a door (or base of a statue?), very interestingly, as he did it, it seems almost surreal, like a dream.
@Roadtree, your pictures are stuning, heartbreaking too, taking us farther, as you write about it, I have not been to NY for more then ten or twenty years now, but your windows into it make me want to return. But also dream, think.
@greatfull2007, the relatively new door's decoration is interesting, but the old grabbed me instantly. Made me wander: who lived there, who lives there now, what is the history behind. Where it is? It would be good to tell us a little more about the photos you publish this month in the different threads. And please, give us permission to go to your photos so we may favorite it and write under it too.
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This is my favorite window picture that could go also to barrybar's thread, because I almost missed it, but did not finally.
I was taking picture of the flower on the window, when she came out, still speaking in her phone to ask me why and to tell me she did not have this year enough time to really tend her flowers. She did give me permission to take pictures but did not know I was taking already, and that made a very natural picture.
From Nancy A favorite of mine. In America we seldom see people in their windows, and look at the size of this window too! It speaks to me of a trust and casual life.
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@Julie70 Felipe shows us the pyramides through a door (or base of a statue?), very interestingly, as he did it, it seems almost surreal, like a dream.
It is the glass pyramid of the Louvre's entrance view from one of the gates to the école d'art, the arc de la concorde can be seen behind the pyramid.
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@Julie70 very natural picture of a window, in fact the image of the lady makes a totally different picture, great example of street photography showing the life side of the street.
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From Nancy Beautiful image of the southwest/Mexico. The rose color paint, thick adobe walls and cactus garden are beautiful images of the early Mexican and Spanish culture.
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Funny windows, rue Georges V, Paris, in reality covering construction site and garage door.
From Nancy How beautifully unusual. Reminds me of pictures I have seen of the architecture of Gaudy in Barcelona. This is quite nice focusing on just this small piece of the mirros, but I also like the full view you have captured here: www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/477614301/
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Cette photo a été prise cet été près de Castelnau de Montmiral dans le Tarn. Il y avait très peu de soleil et j'ai du retoucher le contraste et forcer les couleurs avec Photoshop. Mais elle est bien réelle et je la trouve "évocatrice"
This photo was taken this summer close Castelnau de Montmiral in the Tarn. There was a very little sun and I have to retouch contrast and to force the colors with Photoshop. But it is quite real and I find it “evocative”
From NancyThis is a very beautiful image. I do not know if this is an artists view or how the window is found, aged naturally. The photographic treatment is perfect.
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What a great window and walls, @Domink! It is strange and a wanterfull image, it makes me dream and wonder.
I was taking pictures of the following windows (and walls) in Normandy, France
From Nancy A fabulous half-timbered house, however I want to see it touch the ground. This image is like seeing a person cut off at the knees. Probably you had several distracting (and modern) items in the street that you had to work around. I do not have an answer for that, I have several images with the same problems.
when I observed this other window and took it with my max zoom.
Although very near each other, they say so different things;
From Nancy Capturing this woman looking out, dreaming, is wonderful. And those shutters are the real thing - I am so used to seeing them as decorative only. I would have liked for a little more organized view on to the building. It is neither straight on nor at an acute angle.
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I like both photos except for the car in the lower left. The girl is the most important feature in the second photo.
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Ohhh - I can not keep up. I love the fact that many of these photos have all gone far beyond the simple minimalistic door and window photo you often see. So many of these images include other things, reflections or people to expand the story beyond the pleasant geometric offerings of the door/window itself.
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A new photo for me - a reflective collage of a local Japanese restaurant, the shopping mall, and shoppers.
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tonight ... like this street light from top to the bottom of the house and the closed door and the in house lights from the two windows
From Nancy I love the dark and moody feel. We can learn much from your subtle approach. The alley and the darkness all works together. It is like a frame from a movie, the action is just about to start.
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That's a wonderful atmospheric shot Fabrice.
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Nancy, apropos your observation a bit earlier, in this photo I stuck to the "simple minimalistic door and window" and cropped out my wife as well.
From Nancy Beautiful colors and contrasts. When windows, walls, and doors are not portals to other worlds, they are geometric eye candy. A mixture of man-made craftsmanship and natural weathering.
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Wonderful photo's in here. While mine is pretty mundane I was sitting at a cafe in my town and looked up and saw these windows. I liked how they contrasted against the red brick building.
From Nancy No, no, this is not mundane. You have perfectly mastered any perspective problems and the play of shadows from the fire escape and wires add a wonderful extra dimension. The brick building with stone (yes stone) window sills and headers bespeak a time and place of this architecture.
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have also these taken in an old ralway station, somewhere in April 2007
From Nancy Images through the windows - intriguing and, I think, very difficult. What I like about the first is that just one small portion of the image is in focus - a small view grasses in the space between buildings. And the last, the exposure and lighting has made the landscape seem like a painting.
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From Nancy This could also be "everyday life". Beautifully layered the inside world competing on an equal footing with the outside. Two American company icons - but wait - this is not in America is it? Looks like a scene directly from Seattle or Boston or even San Francisco.
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Hotel Majestic, Zocalo in Mexico City.
Taken during one of the several mass gatherings in the Zocalo in favour of the leftist candidate AMLO
From Nancy Such great large windows! The better to see into and from. I imagine these windows with historic figures and here we see a modern woman. Beautiful contrast.
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An inner window at the Santa Barbara Mission. I thought this minimal and simple approach mirrored the life of the monk that would have lived inside.
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Is that a crown in relief or a bird's open wings in flight, Nancy. Beautiful and evocative.
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@Fabrice: What strikes me in your set is that you are representing 3 different points of view. #1 and #3 are maybe more from two different artistic point of view, but I specially like the second one, because I can see myself looking out there at the road, and imagine what a person who worked there was seeing every day.. Nice view!..
@Yosita: I agree with Briggate, this is a great image!.. Good exposure, great light, well thought of composition, and I love the way the stairs are a bit curved out, and the details of the glass and paint on the doors.. It all seals the feel of the image beautifully!
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Such collection of great images come in this thread and so varied too!
Again, from Guarnay in Bray Normandy, to answer to @Nancy's observation, and to @Andreas too: yes, there were cars under the houses that blocked the view or distracted me, at least, from the far away and old sensation, like in a storybook, I wanted to convey.
First here is the image when I have first seen the girl in her window from afar.
This one is the lower part of the other house - of course with the car, but also a door. It should tike a lot of time to take the car out, but I could eventually neutralise its color.
And near them where, center town and place those dreamlike looking little houses that made me stopp in the first time.
I see now that they do need perspective correction, also for a storybook being squeezed one in other a bit more does not hurt. I did not put it here, also the wondows are pritty and interesting, and the contrast between those old and the new roof window big, because this is more a thread of detail then a whole scene I think. I add it here just for the mood and to show how much indeed the cars were in the way.
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One more, I took this because the letters are bright blue on a white background, but in the end I like the image better in B&W. This happens frequently ...
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This thread has a life all its own - a kind of "can you top this" energy. Thank you all for your marvelous contributions and energy.
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What a magnificent collection of photographs above. The variations on a theme are endless. This is a great idea for a thread.
Here are a pair of buildings with blank, shuttered windows, turned in on themselves, their history forgotten. Taken in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and Ovando, Montana.
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View through a shop window in Paris...
From Nancy I think these "through the window" images are the most intriguing to me. This one with such beautiful warm colors.
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In Ireland the doors range from the stately Georgian entrances in Dublin to the humble cottages. I especially liked this Carlingford village home with it's pink facade, turquoise trim, & of course a welcoming pot of flowers. (Carlingford is in County Louth, north of Dublin. Northern Ireland is just across the beautiful bay.)
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After posting my photo I went back through all the postings. They are all so wonderful I could fave them all. The two Basel windows remind me of New Orleans (photos only, never been). The feeling evoked by the Namibia photo is especially powerful. No wonder eyes are called the "window to our souls".
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This thread is really great! I had one photo in mind when I started scrolling through .... but ended up with several I want to share!
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I loved the dawn reflection in one window - and the simplicity of the architecture. This was in El Haouaria, in Tunisia
In contrast - a "qamariya" window in a house opposite my hotel in Sana'a, Yemen, at night
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Still in Yemen - a typical old house in the old city
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And another window in the old city
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Somehow very sad - she is behind house bars now, in all too few years, she'll be behind the "bars" of a veil ....
From Nancy Very poignant and sad, as you say. A wonderful capture in time.
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Kingdom Tower, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ... those squares are all windows! Taken in very rare weather conditions ... wouldn't you know it, the only chance I had to take photos was a day when the clouds came down & it poured with rain!
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This one I took in Fürstenfeld, Styria, Austria.
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And that one is from Tangers, Morocco.
From Nancy A very intriguing photo and thank you for sharing in !afterclass!. I can not tell if these cats are statues or real. The white one looks like a statue, but the dark one looks real. Or perhaps they are stuffed?
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And now a last one from Ayvalık, Turkey.
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From Nancy Woof! :-)
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@Tony, I did this a few hours ago, after seing your picture of the old door, in my town (France) behind the gaz station center town, I found a narrow street with two old shops, this is one old closed shop's door.
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Hi, I'm new to the group so I hope I'm not messing this up.
I took this shot in Cumming, GA of a convenience store recently ravaged by fire. The idea of looking into a building and seeing the trees 'inside' appealed to my sense of wrongness. The scarred walls tell a story...
From Nancy Excellent exploration of this assignment and welcome to !afterclass! Empty and missing windows tell us as much as the full ones. What is so interesting to me is the collection of trash that has collected on the, now missing, entrance.
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Welcome, Mr Tugs/ John - this is a fascinating photo - almost surrealistic.
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 MrTugs / John photo reminded me of this one from China Town in Victoria, Vancouver Island. Only the front wall remains and its interesting piece of graffiti.
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I love photos of doors and windows and stumbled upon this group and thread. This is probably my favourite door shot. It was taken in Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic. Such a beautiful little town, but some buildings showing their years of service.
From Nancy It is so interesting to see the new-looking paint next to the crumbling wall. Someone clearly still lives here and is proud enough to paint their door red. The hole above the door almost seems purposeful.
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Can't help it, with this extraordinary thread, i'd to add one more.
Through the ages and civilizations, far and near, STAINED GLASS WINDOWS (this one from the 13th century) had profoundly impressed the next generations and gave us a significant and immortal art form.
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 -- from Anduze traveller - (?)
In St Hippolyte du Fort, in the South of France
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anika inn [deleted] says:
Well I love tracing dorrs and windows in all combinations. I find them interesting as they can say someting about their owners. Most of all I love shoting laundry in windows. My little fetish;) And this one reminds me of autumn and ... Marcer's song "The Autumn Leaves" here, played by Keith Jarret www.youtube.com/watch?v=io1o1Hwpo8Y
Kalisz, the oldest city in Poland, central Europe
From Nancy I see the tie to Mercer's tune - the colorful laundry evocative of the autumn colors. I wonder how universal is laundry in the window? In some areas I think it can be seen often, in others, it is a sign of poverty.
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Morning shadow in the window (from bus)
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from the inside ... when the sun shapes the door! these two are quite recent! need to improve the 'concept' ;-)
1/ a church in my city Mons Belgium
2/ a church in St-Quentin France
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an old one but quite 'special', the house of my mother&father during the night
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I did not know weather to put it in this Door thread or in the Working one, the post woman arriving with the bicycle and putting the mail in the box
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A series of doors, st the central building in the "Garden for Lingering In in Suzhou".
The gardens are beautifully designed and most interesting are the windows and doorways, designed to frame a scene and permit the best view possible.
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Another door, other windows ans other stuffs ... still at night ...
From Nancy Perfect lighting and mood for this shot. This shot brings up a million questions about how all this stuff got on the sidewalk.
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@Fabrice, faboulous, your last photo, it has so much mood in it! I feel being there with you.
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From Nancy I love your city shots and their wonderful sense of color. The reflections are wonderful with the moving car and the two layers of trees (tree shadow and tree reflections).
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Hi there.. Happened to be walking around my town yesterday and saw the afternoon sunlight on this wall and immediately thought about this thread.. The original photo has 4 windows but I liked the effect with two..
From Nancy Absolutely beautiful. I love the subtle shadows of the tree on across the wall. A great abstract!
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I went center town to a Pizzeria's meeting and on the way a small street. I was happy to have my camera with me. I wondered: is someone there?
From Nancy Fabulous! I want to see this wall again in month with these leaves all in beautiful fall color.
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Inspired of the three above (great photos!), one more i thought I'd like share it with you all.
"Inside the wall, light gone hidden,
Out on the other side, wind was simply quiet,,
in between air was invisibly free...
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From Nancy Mysterious! So much with so little.
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this in florence
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New Orleans, Louisiana . . . a lonely door.
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St. Francisville, South Louisiana . . . The building is circa 1820; the blue star appears t be a masonry star. The is pure South LA to me!
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jodhpur, rajasthan (aka the blue city)
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santa fe, new mexico - turquoise and adobe
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getting a glimpse of what's behind the big wooden door - fatehpur, rajasthan
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