Saturday 28 July 2012

Windows - Buy One Get One Free!

Chopin, I believe, said that nothing is more beautiful than a guitar - except perhaps two. I feel much the same about windows, so here are a few double-window images that have diverted my attention recently when I was supposed to be doing other things.


















OK, so number five isn't really a double window apart from being a sash-window which is made in two pieces. Some of them might be reflections from big mirrors inside the rooms, but that's half the fun of these photos - trying to figure out what's real, what's a reflection and what's a distortion. I can assure you they are all "straight" pictures though I've tweaked them a little to bring out the reflections to best advantage. And that last picture - well, I couldn't figure out what was going on till I got the photo home and had a good look at it.


Take care.

8 comments:

  1. LOL now you talked about the windows like a fetish...

    It is really good to see this variety of window photographs. Good to compile into a pamphlet for sure. So Chopin really likes guitar look?

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  2. A room with a view, a view with a room. Lots of interesting shapes and effects. Particularly like the lattice window with the sailboat.

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  3. Bravo, John! Number three looks like a ship assail in a garden, and the last image...well...it's just otherworldly. Thanks for sharing!

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  4. The first one almost has this Southwestern flavor to it. Unusual for the old country. Like them all.

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  5. Clever, John. OK, I'll bite, what was going on in that last shot?

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  6. You have an incredible eye for a good photo John. And, like
    Wayfarin Strange - I don't understand that last shot either.

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  7. The fourth photo is my favorite. I was in Germany last month and I think I took at least a dozen photos from inside, looking out through appealing windows. The ones I liked best were windows in which one side was closed and the other open, affording a view.

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