Doors and Windows

[ginger_55]

I have a door. Love it, though it is not as close up as yours. Mine was shot telephoto, I know.

Here is my door. I like windows too. Thought it might give the thread more appeal, or more people might have one or the other. ginger

http://gingerSnap.smugmug.com/photos/3951131-M.jpg

Taken in Charleston for dGrin, when I first joined. Bill was in the car, had to stop taking photos, grabbed this before I left. Didn't think it would be anything, but I do like it. With the motorbike and all, but particularly the red door. Think I did something to make the cobblestones show up, and I must have missed at the bottom.

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I love your door, too. Like most doors. Wonder if that is a metaphor. I have been shooting windows longer, we have more windows here, there, where ever, than doors. I was really excited to see a door for photographers. I know kind of where it is, to take for the challeng, but my distortion would not be good and who knows where the bike is.

[snapapple]

I have a door. Love it, though it is not as close up as yours. Mine was shot telephoto, I know.

Here is my door. I like windows too. Thought it might give the thread more appeal, or more people might have one or the other. ginger

http://gingerSnap.smugmug.com/photos/3951131-S.jpg

Taken in Charleston for dGrin, when I first joined. Bill was in the car, had to stop taking photos, grabbed this before I left. Didn't think it would be anything, but I do like it. With the motorbike and all, but particularly the red door. Think I did something to make the cobblestones show up, and I must have missed at the bottom.

g


I have a door too.

http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/7246084-L.jpg

[snapapple]

You can see how narrow the street is. Couldn't get back to take the shot straight on in this or the last shot.

http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/7246085-L.jpg

[ginger_55]

Those are great doors, Snappy! I love both of them. Where was the bottom one taken, and the top one, for that matter.

I don't do doors as often as windows, LOL. I would look for some, but I am trying to track this storm. There is a tornado on the other side of Charleston.

Also the implications for tomorrow. Charlie is supposed to come slightly to our west which will give us the worst part as far as storms are concerned.

So I can't quite leave the TV, and I have to read it, so I am typing and reading.

Bill was supposed to work Saturday. They might close the bridges at some point, so he, his boss and whoever got the bright idea that he would come North, towards the hurricane, and sleep at the studio, so they can get to another town Sat morning. Craziest thing I have ever heard of.

I have a doctor's appt downtown, will cancel, my car sits low, Honda Civic, it can't drive in water, and Charleston does get water, just from a high tide, to say the least of a tropical storm condition.

I tried to write earlier, and my computer must have decided it had had enough.

Am too tired and preoccupied to write anyone much of anything now.

Those are great doors. The one standing by itself, well, I just watched a thing on Palestine. And then that door is all by itself. Was it bombed?

They are expecting 85 mph winds by Sat morning.

Later, ginger

Sorry, it was in Greece. It looks like the pictures I have seen from there. Looks like it is beautiful, you not only got to see it, you got to photograph it.

I was thinking of photographing the surfers. Bill won't go with me, because of something he calls, Death By Lightening. He wrote it on a card, as I didn't have my hearing aids on, can't hear anything without them. I thought he was talking about a mystery, a book.

Wish I could turn this into a photographic experience. A door would be fine, I can shoot anything wide, maybe not well, but I can shoot it, :rofl :rofl :rofl

[ginger_55]

JUst one more thought. I know there is a certain color used to keep the bad people, whatever away. Doors are painted that color on the sea islands, whereever the Geechee culture is still strong. Now that would be something to photograph.

I saw a clothes line the other night, got all excited, but Bill wouldn't stop the car. Something about private property. And wide would be great for a clothes line, but I would want to get close.

Priorities can be a problem, lol. (The people were all out front, Bill could have created a diversion, and I could have snuck in, shot and left, no one the wiser.)

g

[wxwax]

You can see how narrow the street is. Couldn't get back to take the shot straight on in this or the last shot.

http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/7246085-S.jpg

Ooh, this one's great, Snappy. Love the composition, and the subject matter.

[Shakey]

You can see how narrow the street is. Couldn't get back to take the shot straight on in this or the last shot.
http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/7246085-S.jpgSnapapple
Your shot is one I wish I took I love it:thumb

Here is a picture of a window I took yesterday. Part of a series I am making about a City landmark that is soon to be demolished.
http://shakey.smugmug.com/photos/7402231-L.jpg


A crop from the above.

http://shakey.smugmug.com/photos/7402235-M.jpg


"Enjoy :andy taking window door photography":D

Tim

[ginger_55]

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[ginger_55]

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Charleston, SC 2004 by ginger

[ginger_55]

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[ginger_55]

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[ginger_55]

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[ginger_55]

http://shakey.smugmug.com/photos/7402231-S.jpgSnapapple
Your shot is one I wish I took I love it:thumb

Here is a picture of a window I took yesterday. Part of a series I am making about a City landmark that is soon to be demolished.



A crop from the abo "Enjoy :andy taking window door photography":D

Tim
Join us some more, Tim. Love those landmarks. You know what? We don't always know what the landmarks are..............one day they are there, have always been there, next day: gone. So the more pictures of the things passed every day, the better

Plus the known landmarks. Here known landmarks are usually registered as such. Very strict restrictions as to what can be torn down, or changed on renovation. Consequently houses sit, fall apart, become havens for drug dealers. I didn't used to be afraid to go into those areas, but I have gained respect. And the people there, the "nice" ones, they do not like me coming in and treating them as an exhibit. Many people want those places torn down, they say it ruins Charleston that visitors can see them. I say it "makes" Charleston. In another ten yrs or so, those places will either be bought and "restored", or they will have collapsed.

I love them, can't be everywhere at once, photographically.

But I have some photographs that survived my hurricane, and most of the places in them, ordinary places, but a part of the community, they don't exist anymore.

ginger

[ginger_55]

Snapapple
Your shot is one I wish I took I love it:thumb

Here is a picture of a window I took yesterday. Part of a series I am making about a City landmark that is soon to be demolished.



A crop from the above.

http://shakey.smugmug.com/photos/7402235-M.jpg


"Enjoy :andy taking window door photography":D

Tim
This is a silly, embarrassing question, but is that "Tim" you?

[Shakey]

Nope, It is not me. The only musical instrument I can play is ... a stick and hollow wodden thingie that makes the "took took" sound when you hit it .:rofl
Tim

[Shakey]

This is a silly, embarrassing question, but is that "Tim" you?Nope,It is not me. The only musical instrument I can play is... that hollow wooden thingie you hit with a stick and it makes a "tooque tooque" sound.:rofl


Ginger this photo is so gothic with the weathered look and the tree reflected. Cool. It reminds me of the Amityville Horror for some reason.
http://gingersnap.smugmug.com/photos/3937821-S.jpg


Tim

[snapapple]

Shakey - thanks for the kind words about my door in Santorini. It's one of my very favorite pictures from the trip.

Ginger, I like that dormer window of yours too. I also like the gate in the marsh. What effect did you use on that? It looks cool. I tried water color on some of my bright colored pics in Burano. That looks cool too.

Here's a window in a yellow door. It's actually from last week, taken wiiiide.

http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/7470170-L.jpg

[snapapple]

And here's another one of the window. Has a reflection of some red flowers in the glass. I thought I was taking it wide, but the lens moved. I liked the window and the reflection anyway.

http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/7470172-L.jpg

[snapapple]

This is the window of my garden/tool shed. Unfortunately the window box bracket has slipped down on the left and is crooked. So, it's not the picture or your eyes. It was shot wide, 7.1mm = 35mm. The lines of the siding curving in are a good indication of that. I purposely didn't straighten them. Too bad the flower box is crooked. :cry

http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/7473111-M.jpg

[pathfinder]

Ginger - I was going to start a new thread called "Doors, Windows, and Rooftops", but I see you have already done, that except you left out rooftops in the title. I like your dormer window too, but wonder why it lacks post processing to make it better?:dunno

http://gingersnap.smugmug.com/photos/3937821-S.jpg

Snappy, your shot of the blue door is just dynamite - Perfect! Could be in any published book on archtecture or something:1drink
http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/7246085-S.jpg

I also like your other window shot with the reflections in it.
http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/7470172-S.jpg

Tim, I like the really nice turquoise and royal blue in your window shot, but I
think it might be even more compelling if the perspective distortion were corrected? The sign in the window is the perfect gracenote too:thumb

http://shakey.smugmug.com/photos/7402231-S.jpg

Here is my contribution in the way of a rooftop

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7363182-L.jpg

and a door
http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7409657-L.jpg

[ginger_55]

http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/7473111-S.jpgThis is the window of my garden/tool shed. Unfortunately the window box bracket has slipped down on the left and is crooked. So, it's not the picture or your eyes. It was shot wide, 7.1mm = 35mm. The lines of the siding curving in are a good indication of that. I purposely didn't straighten them. Too bad the flower box is crooked. :cry


No, Snappy, I think the crooked makes this shot. I love it, and I love the door shots, both of them. I love yellow anyway, but I love how you photographed the door and this window. I love the reflections of the flowers in the door shot, too. Just the composition of all three of these pictures......I love them!

Fantastic!

ginger:clap

[ginger_55]

doG, I love that door, Pathfinder, love it, and the rooftop, also. I don't have rooftops so I didn't think roof tops. Can we add that to the title.

You all come, here, I am finding these shots you all have done of doors and rooftops and windows stupendous!

On the post processing of that dormer window, I have to laugh, Pathfinder. I look at the shots I took this spring, before I learned my assembly line processing, I find some of the shots pitiful, :rofl The discerning eye can be a real downer when used on one's own stuff, before one knew better.

I am sure it had something done to it, what I don't remember. I don't think it is too bad as it is, but it could pop, it could show the paint cracks better, etc.

I just have to laugh. I went to show Rutt one of my favorite photographs today, and it was embarrassing to e-mail it. I had thought it was beautiful, and it wasn't. I am sure it was not the photograph that had changed.

funny, one might ask the question: what benefit education? Or something about the old saying about how you can't send them back to the farm, when they have seen the world. I think my photographic eyes have been opened a bit. Before I saw through a glass darkly, now it is a bit brighter, maybe.

My brain is tired. Do any of you wonder if you will ever be able to take another very good photograph. I worry, I get so excited when I take one I like, then I start to worry, can I ever do it again. It really holds me back as far as becoming a professional. I actually made about 15.00 selling prints of a kid I had used as a model, without a release, sold the prints to her mother, and now she wants to commission me. She is one of those rare souls with whom I feel I can be honest, as in "I have never done this before, but I would like to try". I am hoping to make enough money to reup my pro acct next year.

But my fears re my own abilities do hold me back. How about you all.

ginger

[snapapple]

On the post processing of that dormer window, I have to laugh, Pathfinder. I look at the shots I took this spring, before I learned my assembly line processing, I find some of the shots pitiful, :rofl The discerning eye can be a real downer when used on one's own stuff, before one knew better.

... I don't think it is too bad as it is, but it could pop, it could show the paint cracks better, etc.
... then I start to worry, can I ever do it again. It really holds me back as far as becoming a professional. I actually made about 15.00 selling prints of a kid I had used as a model, without a release, sold the prints to her mother, and now she wants to commission me. She is one of those rare souls with whom I feel I can be honest, as in "I have never done this before, but I would like to try". I am hoping to make enough money to reup my pro acct next year.

But my fears re my own abilities do hold me back. How about you all.

ginger

Ginger,

Talk about insecurity, that's me all over. That's why I am so glad we have the critique thread. Most of the time I really know which is my best photo, but I need that reassurance. It's always been that way. My husband has always been great at bolstering my confidence. That's one of the best qualities a spouse can have. See, they're good for something after all, smile.

Have we seen the pictures of this kid you mention. I'd like to see them. Don't worry, you'll do fine. You'll probably outdo yourself as usual. That's kind of what I do. In my effort to do a good job on something, I usually do it "to death".

About looking back at our older photos... I have had the same experience. I have taken some of the old originals and worked them up again. It's wonderful to see how much better we can make them. Go ahead and work up that dormer window. Let's see how much better it can be. Thank heaven for Photoshop!

You know, this thread is kind of fun. So much less pressure than the challenge. And, everyone takes pictures of doors. I didn't know they took pictures of windows and roof tops, too. But, hey, we all have lots in common, huh? It's kind of like flowers. Everyone takes pictures of flowers too. I love that thread too. I have zillions of pics of flowers.

I'm going to check my folders. I know I have some roof tops.

[snapapple]

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Ginger,

You asked about this door. I think the people used an old door as a gate to their courtyard. They have a wall around the courtyard and this is the "gate" or door into it. You can look through the window and see their yard. These "streets" are really narrow. They have to park their cars down below and walk up. Tourists walk along these narrow pathways all the time. Most people keep their house fronts "picturesque" for the benefit of the tourists. It must be terrible for them to live "in a fishbowl" all the time. Anyway, I'm sure they leave this door unpainted on purpose. And those that have the "blue doors" paint them frequently. They match the beautiful blue dome roofs. Oh, roofs! I have to find some roofs.

[snapapple]

Here's a roof. I wanted the blue dome and the view in the picture, but mostly got an ugly flat roof. With those narrow streets, it was hard to find a good place to stand. And the tour group was leaving without me. I had to lag behind all the time to get pictures without 40 tourists in them. My husband came back to get me, and without him, I think I would have gotten lost in those little streets.
http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/825528-L-1.jpg

[snapapple]

Here's an unusual roof. I took this during the lines and curves challenge.

http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/6849833-L.jpg

[snapapple]

This is a doorway in Volterra, Italy. I liked the garlic. I didn't do a good job of framing this, but I kept it anyway because of the garlic. I got my camera the day before we left on this trip. I'm lucky I figured out how to use it enough to get a few good shots. My first digital camera.

http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/7487991-L.jpg

[snapapple]

This is another old door in San Gimignano, Italy.

http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/7485176-L.jpg

[snapapple]

Here's a door and a window - in San Gimignano, Italy

http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/7485177-L.jpg

Need some more people to join in with your doors, windows and rooftops. That way we can keep this thread on the top of the list. ;<)

Shakey, I like the blue door with the poster. Let's see some more.

[ginger_55]

Ginger,

You asked about this door. I think the people used an old door as a gate to their courtyard. They have a wall around the courtyard and this is the "gate" or door into it. You can look through the window and see their yard. These "streets" are really narrow. They have to park their cars down below and walk up. Tourists walk along these narrow pathways all the time. Most people keep their house fronts "picturesque" for the benefit of the tourists. It must be terrible for them to live "in a fishbowl" all the time. Anyway, I'm sure they leave this door unpainted on purpose. And those that have the "blue doors" paint them frequently. They match the beautiful blue dome roofs. Oh, roofs! I have to find some roofs.
Thanks, Snappy, sounds like a great trip, but the tourists, or the group, could be a major problem if it were me. My father traveled a lot, all over, and he was the photographer in the family for scenics from foreign lands. He did not go on tours, he and his wife were fortunate enough to be able to go all over, once or twice a year, by themselves, making up their own itinerary.

I dropped my husband off at the hospital, terrible aren't I, that was at 9 this AM our time, and he is still waiting for his surgery. It is now 1:30 our time.
It is radiation implants.....

But I went shooting doors. No roofs, I was never high enough. And the doors are all pretty boring. Went to my favorite area, but it is a very rich area, and they play down their wealth, so plain doors. There was a great scene of a maid, all dressed in white, polishing a brass doornob, she glared at me, just because I existed. I would not have even tried to take her photo. Would have been good, if she had posed, etc.

They do not like the tourists traipsing through the neighborhood, on the other hand, that means money to Charleston, so it is a problem. I wanted to say to everone, "I am not a tourist". But I was in their neighborhood, carrying a camera. I was almost surprised a few places that I was not called in for suspicious activity.

Had a great cheeseburger, though, and I am tired again now. Was up early to get Bill to the hospital in time, :rofl

ginger

[snapapple]

Thanks, Snappy, sounds like a great trip, but the tourists, or the group, could be a major problem if it were me. My father traveled a lot, all over, and he was the photographer in the family for scenics from foreign lands. He did not go on tours, he and his wife were fortunate enough to be able to go all over, once or twice a year, by themselves, making up their own itinerary.
.....
I dropped my husband off at the hospital, terrible aren't I, that was at 9 this AM our time, and he is still waiting for his surgery. It is now 1:30 our time.
It is radiation implants.....

ginger

Hi Ginger,

I'm saying some prayers for your husband. Hope everything turns out OK.

I know what you mean by wanting to take your trips on your own. We have always felt that way too. We like to go at our own pace and do our own thing. But, this was a totaly different kind of trip. We took a Medeterranean Cruise. We were in a different port almost every day. We took the shore tour because it was the easiest way to get to see a lot of stuff and get back to the ship on time. We went on our own in only one town. We took the public bus to the place we wanted to see. We wouldn't have known where to go, but another couple had checked it out and had a map etc. You had to go to a little news stand to purchase a bus ticket (we would never have known). Nobody speaks english in those little towns. The real danger is not getting back to the ship on time. It *will* leave without you.
If we ever go to Santorini again, we will go on our own. It's a small island and you can get cabs to take you around. There are several other areas we didn't have time to see. It's the same with some other places we went. The cruise gives a good sampling of the areas, but you have to go back again if you really want to see it in depth. It is an inexpensive way to travel though. We could never have traveled over land to all those places and different countries for the price. We saw Venice, Dubrovnik, Greece, Santorini, Naples, Rome, Nice, Eze, Monte Carlo, Monoco, Tuscany, and Barcelona. It's great to wake up in the morning and be in a new place. No packing and unpacking. No trains and planes. Just relaxing on the ship, eating a great dinner and waking up to a new city each day. It's tiring though, to get up early every morning and walk all day. You do get a couple days "at sea" to rest up. Then we spent two days in Barcelona before we flew home. It was really a wonderful trip. We were celebrating our anniversary.

[ginger_55]

Here's a door and a window - in Tarquinia, Italy

http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/7485177-L.jpg

Need some more people to join in with your doors, windows and rooftops. That way we can keep this thread on the top of the list. ;<)

Shakey, I like the blue door with the poster. Let's see some more.
Snappy, the doors aren't showing up, the little box with a red X is what I am getting. Will go work up one door, then take a nap.

[ginger_55]

A Red (Blue Collar) door:

http://gingerSnap.smugmug.com/photos/7503910-L.jpg

[snapapple]

A Red (Blue Collar) door:

http://gingerSnap.smugmug.com/photos/7503910-S.jpg

Cool door. Isn't it interesting how the color red makes a door so inviting, even on a warehouse. The Chinese new that a long time ago. They often paint their doors red. It's good "feng shui" (sp) they say. I think it welcomes the good chi and drives away the bad chi, or something like that.

By the way, I fixed the share button on my gallery. You should be able to see my doors now. I also realized that those last two doors are in San Gimignano. Got the wrong town on my post.

[snapapple]

Here are some windows from a building in the main square of San Gimignano.

http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/7541071-M.jpg

[snapapple]

Ginger - I was going to start a new thread called "Doors, Windows, and Rooftops", but I see you have already done, that except you left out rooftops in the title. I like your dormer window too, but wonder why it lacks post processing to make it better?:dunno


Here is my contribution in the way of a rooftop

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7363182-S.jpg

and a door
http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7409657-S.jpg

Did I mention these? Wow, this is a great door. Rooftop is pretty neat too.
Some doors reallly cry out to have their picture taken, don't they? When someone has gone to so much effort to make a beautiful door, it should be appreciated by as many as possible. Thanks for sharing.

[ginger_55]

I do love Pathfinder's door! I don't know where to get other people. Can't hand out flyers..........:rofl That is one reason I always want to post on the challenge, and other people say when I have my entry that I shouldn't do that.

I am glad that you are here, I think others will drop in like Pathfinder did.

This is an example, IMO, of Charleston elegance. Understated. Everything is saved for "behind" the doors. Really great gardens, but hidden. Some of these things are in really bad shape. There were workmen all over. They sell for around a million dollars. It is my favorite street, and has been since the eighties, so I have been down it before. Looked worse today than it used to.
Northerners are coming in and paying those million dollar prices. They do not usually live in the houses, here, full time.

There were workmen all over, so maybe with the many turnovers, more houses will be fixed up. It is a shame, though, the school children are disappearing, the whole sense of community. Etc.

http://gingerSnap.smugmug.com/photos/7508335-L.jpg
If I can't go to Europe, I always tell Bill, we should get out, here, enjoy what we have. People pay a mint to visit this place, and so far we are here year round. The photography has helped get me out to many places. I have not been near this street in years.

But I do read about what is happening. As the old widows die off, the children can't, or are not interested in, the high cost of living in Charleston, proper. It has changed, anyway, as I said the children are gone. So the houses are being sold to northeners. I read that the "kids" are taking the money and moving to Sullivan's Island. The taxes are high in both places.

[ginger_55]

The front door on one house. It is one where the front door is on the side, with a fake door in front. Somehow this house lost its fake door, so I could walk up a bit and take this photo.

Look at the gleaming brass. I noticed that all along the street, no matter what a house looked like, the brass is shining.

http://gingerSnap.smugmug.com/photos/7508328-L.jpg

[ginger_55]

Here are some windows from a building in the main square of San Gimignano.

http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/7504338-M.jpg
I just love those windows, Snappy!

[pathfinder]

http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/7504338-S.jpgI just love those windows, Snappy!
I think this is an excellent image also - I also appreciate that the windows and edges are square in the frame and centered nicely - This, I beleive, Snappy did in post processing - I can never get my images this square in my viewfinder, no matter how hard I try. Nice work Snappy!

Here are some windows in Bishop's Castle in Colorado. Just Google Bishop's Castle and you will find it :1drink It is privately owned and built.
http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7487286-L.jpg

And here is a window I saw in Pitkin, Colorado in June

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7487285-L.jpg

[ginger_55]

Love the Colorado stuff, Pathfinder, love the windows.

This is a door, to where, in Charleston, I am not sure. We are sitting on water.
I had one in an old house in Indiana that was a coal shute. Love them, whatever they were for.

http://gingerSnap.smugmug.com/photos/7508332-L.jpg

[lynnma]

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7487285-S.jpg


love this one Path... I spent ages looking at it :clap

[SeeMoon]

Like those pics from Greece Snappy! I also have a thing for doors and windows, here're a few;

This is in Lisbon;

http://see-moon.smugmug.com/photos/3024902-L.jpg

New York;

http://see-moon.smugmug.com/photos/2364707-L.jpg

and Bonaire;

http://see-moon.smugmug.com/photos/3252362-L.jpg

[lynnma]

Like those pics from Greece Snappy! I also have a thing for doors and windows, here're a few;

This is in Lisbon;



New York;



and Bonaire;


I love the Lisbon shot Simone, I would have liked to see more of what was lower and I loved the Bonaire window. I went diving in Bonaire once, lovely place.:D

[pathfinder]

Ok Ginger, Lynn, SeeMoon, Here are a couple more:rofl

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7639106-L.jpg

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7639113-L.jpg

[wxwax]

OK, the word that comes to mind is fetish. This thread can't be healthy. :evil

SeeMoon, this one really caught my eye.

http://see-moon.smugmug.com/photos/2364707-S.jpg

PF saw me post this, and told me I had on the right outfit to join you guys. I kinda like the wildness of this one.

http://wxwax.smugmug.com/photos/7641734-L.jpg

And here's another one. Not special, not even close, but slightly different.

http://wxwax.smugmug.com/photos/7641109-M.jpg

[pathfinder]

OK, the word that comes to mind is fetish. This thread can't be healthy. :evil

SeeMoon, this one really caught my eye.

http://see-moon.smugmug.com/photos/2364707-S.jpg

PF saw me post this, and told me I had on the right outfit to join you guys. I kinda like the wildness of this one.

http://wxwax.smugmug.com/photos/7641734-L.jpg

And here's another one. Not special, not even close, but slightly different.

http://wxwax.smugmug.com/photos/7641109-M.jpg
Welcome Sid - Here are a couple more...
http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7681874-L.jpg

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7681865-L.jpg

[pathfinder]

Just one more :D

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7680565-L.jpg

[SeeMoon]

http://wxwax.smugmug.com/photos/7641734-S.jpg



Like this one a lot Waxy! Saw this one in your WA thread ..looks kinda weird!

[SeeMoon]

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7681865-S.jpg



Lines, curves, reflection...is this shot in WA mode by any chance? :D

[pathfinder]

Lines, curves, reflection...is this shot in WA mode by any chance? :DI don't rememeber the exact focal length - smugmug says about 47mm on 35mm equivalent:1drink I shot a number of frames Sunday with a 24mm lens at a 1.3 mag factor. Lots of fun with reflections - just a few weeks too late tho:D

But I'm having fun with seeing my community again in a new way.:clap

I have enjoyed seeing all the places you have travelled - it is quite an impressive life style. I had a friend years ago who was a stewardess for NWA - and she lived in central Indiana and shopped monthly in Tokyo. I never could get my head around that. (Do you prefer cabin attendant today? ) Anyway, you have a lot of lovely images of your travels and of Holland itself also.

Here is a closer view of a window

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7681870-M.jpg

[wxwax]

Welcome Sid - Here are a couple more...
http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7681874-S.jpg


This the style I seem to enjoy, PF. Not sure why. Maybe it's the purity, orderliness and simplicity? I love the context of windows and doors cut into a wall that could stretch on forever.

[snapapple]

OK, the word that comes to mind is fetish. This thread can't be healthy. :evil


And here's another one. Not special, not even close, but slightly different.

http://wxwax.smugmug.com/photos/7641109-M.jpg

Welcome Sid, to our little fixation.

Now is this a door or a window? Hmmm a bricked over doorway. Is there a body hidden behind there? Perhaps this thread is *not* healthy. :scratch

[snapapple]

I don't rememeber the exact focal length - smugmug says about 47mm on 35mm equivalent:1drink I shot a number of frames Sunday with a 24mm lens at a 1.3 mag factor. Lots of fun with reflections - just a few weeks too late tho:D

Here is a closer view of a window

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7681870-M.jpg

Pathfinder,

I love your windows. You sure seem to be stuck on reflections. Just find them everywhere, huh? :D

[pathfinder]

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7681874-S.jpg

This the style I seem to enjoy, PF. Not sure why. Maybe it's the purity, orderliness and simplicity? I love the context of windows and doors cut into a wall that could stretch on forever.
I was struck by the contrast of the straight forward shop window and door with the quirky windows above with the repeating portraits and the bright yellow awning for the shot of color to an otherwise monochromatic scene. Calming, but worth a second or third look to my eye at least. Glad you enjoyed it.

[SeeMoon]

I have enjoyed seeing all the places you have travelled - it is quite an impressive life style. I had a friend years ago who was a stewardess for NWA - and she lived in central Indiana and shopped monthly in Tokyo. I never could get my head around that. (Do you prefer cabin attendant today? ) Anyway, you have a lot of lovely images of your travels and of Holland itself also.

Thanks! I too hear myself say; i'll get that MP3 player in Hong Kong..But (especially on occasions like with the lions or cagediving with great whites in Sout Africa) i feel so very lucky that i'm able to see so many things, meet so many diffirent people and have so many cool photo opportunities! At KLM we just work all over the world, not in regions, so that makes it extra exciting.
Being so far away from home so often makes me appreciate the people and things here even more though..Amsterdam is my favourite destination. :D
(stewardess is what we're called here, either is fine)

Another door..ok; with a house, but still a door. Life is simple in Suriname;

http://see-moon.smugmug.com/photos/1008954-M.jpg

[pathfinder]

Another door..ok; with a house, but still a door. Life is simple in Suriname;

http://see-moon.smugmug.com/photos/1008954-M.jpg
This reminds me of the one I posted earlier from an earlier period in Illinois

This is the Lincoln Log Cabin Historic Site in Illinois - It is the home of Abraham Lincoln's father circa 1840
http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7680565-M.jpg

[Andy]

this is a great thread! i'm going to have fun going through all of the posts. in the mean time, here are a few from me....

outside windows (the cloisters, new york city's monastic castle in northern manhattan)
http://williams.smugmug.com/photos/1744632-M.jpg

flatiron building windows, abstract
http://williams.smugmug.com/photos/2878420-M.jpg

my front door
http://williams.smugmug.com/photos/7720772-M.jpg

back door of school bus

http://williams.smugmug.com/photos/7720773-M.jpg

[Shakey]

Nice Andy but my question is... Who gets the bruised banana?:rofl

[Andy]

Nice Andy but my question is... Who gets the bruised bannana?:rofl

thanks shakey!

i always fought for the really ripe ones myself :D

this "school lunches" pic i did for the dpreview stf "school daze" challenge. i worked so freakin' hard on it, and it placed well, but didn't win. the school bus, however, did win first place, and i put all of 30 seconds into the shot, i shot it thru my windshield as i was following this bus on a country road :rofl

[pathfinder]

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7681874-Ti.jpg
This the style I seem to enjoy, PF. Not sure why. Maybe it's the purity, orderliness and simplicity? I love the context of windows and doors cut into a wall that could stretch on forever.
Maybe this is another version of the simplicity and orderliness you are describing. Kind of quirky too I think

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7759675-L.jpg

[pathfinder]

I have another from today.....

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7781691-L.jpg

[wxwax]

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7681874-Ti.jpg

Maybe this is another version of the simplicity and orderliness you are describing. Kind of quirky too I think

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7759675-S.jpg

Yes, this is also nice. Is it shot head-on like the other one? Maybe the wide angle gives it a bit of curve? I think I like the head-on, totally square approach. I very much like the poster in the window, not so crazy about the lampost, I know I'd love the shot without the lamp. How many times have we seen the perfect shot, only to have an unmovable obstruction intruding on the composition?

[pathfinder]

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7759675-Ti.jpg

Yes, this is also nice. Is it shot head-on like the other one? Maybe the wide angle gives it a bit of curve? I think I like the head-on, totally square approach. I very much like the poster in the window, not so crazy about the lampost, I know I'd love the shot without the lamp. How many times have we seen the perfect shot, only to have an unmovable obstruction intruding on the composition?
I think this was shot just off center because the post would have been in the middle if I had not shot from the side slightly. I actually thought that the lamp post was a nice secondary element, that without it the image might be too plain. I'd be interested in some one else's view about this, since we seem to see it slightly differently.:duel :rofl :rofl

I found another church door this evening. And like you noted previously the sign says "LOCKED" You are right - Churches are not the sanctuary they were in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame":rofl :rofl

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7789934-L.jpg

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7789931-M.jpg

[pathfinder]

Waxy
Do you really prefer this

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7791476-M.jpg


To this?


http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7759675-M.jpg

[SeeMoon]

If I may say so; WITH the lamppost! When i saw the picture for the first time i thought it even made the shot and that i could learn from this, because i probably would've left it out. But it looks so much better with.

[RocketMan]

these were all shot in New Orleans, my camera at the time was only a 2Meg d480 so...
this is my fav. and no I wasn't tippsy when I shot it, but the guy who built it may have been!:D
shot in the French quarter (note the bottom of the door for a clue as to how much the house had settled and leaned over the years)
http://roadrunes.com/images2/door-1.jpg

abandoned house in the Graden distict
http://roadrunes.com/images2/doors-2.jpg

detail of doorway on Market Street
http://roadrunes.com/images2/pig-1.jpg

shot in the second oldest cemetary in the city
http://roadrunes.com/images2/window-1.jpg

RM

[iswoolley]

Took this about 5 years ago at the Royal Palace in Fes. It was my first "door" photo, and now I keep half an eye out every time I pass an interesting door. With this one I wanted to crop quite closely to try and make the image more abstract. Any suggestions/comments gratefully received.

Shot with a Canon T90 and 20mm lens.

Iain

[pathfinder]

If I may say so; WITH the lamppost! When i saw the picture for the first time i thought it even made the shot and that i could learn from this, because i probably would've left it out. But it looks so much better with.
Thank you so much SeeMoon - it is so nice to have our opinion validated... is it not?:thumb

[pathfinder]

these were all shot in New Orleans, my camera at the time was only a 2Meg d480 so...
this is my fav. and no I wasn't tippsy when I shot it, but the guy who built it may have been!:D
shot in the French quarter (note the bottom of the door for a clue as to how much the house had settled and leaned over the years)
http://roadrunes.com/images2/door-1.jpg


RMRocketman I like this one a lot - You might try to get in closer and concentrate on only one door or two..

[wxwax]

Waxy
Do you really prefer this
http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7791476-S.jpg
To this?
http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7759675-S.jpg

Hmmm, I see your point. :nod

[pathfinder]

Hmmm, I see your point. :nod
You are quite genreous, Sir!

Don't feel bad waxy - you opinion was mine exactly when I shot this - I thought boy, I wish I could get around that damned lamp lost!. But when I began looking at images on the lightbox in PS, I realized that maybe it was workable with the lamp post.

Interesting isn't it how we never really know how our shots will turn out until we can see them on the big screen. At least that is a frequent experience for me....

[wxwax]

Interesting isn't it how we never really know how our shots will turn out until we can see them on the big screen. At least that is a frequent experience for me....

Oh yes, I know what you mean. You can't tell if it worked or not until you see it writ large. Plus, The camera LCD can be quite deceptive. It's funny how an image can look good on a tiny monitor (or as a thumbnail) and not work at a larger size - and vice versa.

[nikon90]

This is a great thread!!:thumb I know I have a bunch of doors and windows somewhere in a box just not on my computer. This is one I do have on here. We were delievering in Oakland, CA and it was kind of a strange sidestreet. I saw this and I thought it was neat because someone nailed a bumper on the window.

[PerezDesignGroup]

San Juan, Puerto Rico...Geez I miss that place. :1drink

http://art.smugmug.com/photos/4243787-M.jpg

http://art.smugmug.com/photos/4243774-M.jpg

[wxwax]

I'd like to visit PR someday (but not in hurricane season!) Nice shots, pdg, esp. the first one.

Here's an old door shot I had forgotten.

http://wxwax.smugmug.com/photos/2556043-L.jpg

[SeeMoon]

San Juan, Puerto Rico...Geez I miss that place. :1drink

http://art.smugmug.com/photos/4243787-S.jpg

Nice! Beautiful colors! :clap

[KMCC]

Charleston, S.C. is without doubt one of my favorite places on earth; so I thought I'd add a few more doors from that great city:

http://www.pbase.com/image/32473687.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/32503431.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/32503435.jpg

[pathfinder]

San Juan, Puerto Rico...Geez I miss that place. :1drink

http://art.smugmug.com/photos/4243787-M.jpg

http://art.smugmug.com/photos/4243774-M.jpgDoors in hispanic cultures frequently are decorated or colorfull or both. Lovely.

I found some more windows today with reflections again...
http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7897790-L.jpg

The other pane looking the other way...
http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7897787-L.jpg

[RocketMan]

Rocketman I like this one a lot - You might try to get in closer and concentrate on only one door or two..
Thanks, hope to get back down that way again some time next year if not before and spend more time thinking thru my shots, finding this site has been a real inspration to really think about composition and not just madly click away!

RM

[pathfinder]

Doors are so much fun to find and to share

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7915891-L.jpg

And a red door is always a good thing...

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7897784-L.jpg

[snapapple]

Doors are so much fun to find and to share

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7915891-S.jpg

And a red door is always a good thing...

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/7897784-S.jpg

Pathfinder,
I love red doors too. These are wonderful.

[snapapple]

We took a drive up to the mountains to Julian. We had not been there since the wildfire last October. I took some pictures of the devastation of the forest, then took a few shots of doors and windows in the town. Thanks to our wonderful firefighters, the town was saved and these windows are there for your enjoyment.
Big Boy
http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/8083022-L.jpg

Miners Diner
http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/8083025-L.jpg

[snapapple]

This is the door to the Julian Cafe

http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/8083019-L.jpg

[snapapple]

[http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/8083024-L.jpg

[pathfinder]

We took a drive up to the mountains to Julian. We had not been there since the wildfire last October. I took some pictures of the devastation of the forest, then took a few shots of doors and windows in the town. Thanks to our wonderful firefighters, the town was saved and these windows are there for your enjoyment.
Big Boy
http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/8083022-L.jpg

Miners Diner
http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/8083025-L.jpg
Looks like a cool town :1drink

[pathfinder]

[
http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/8083024-S.jpg
Reminds me of a doorway I saw in Chattanooga last fall to one of the local museums.
http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/8600434-L.jpg

[pathfinder]

I finally was out for a little shooting today - overcast and grey - a good day to capture doors and windows again:1drink Several people liked red doorways - here is another one - this time to a church.

10D f8 1/30
http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/8622115-L.jpg


And you canot have a red door without a green door also....

10D f5.6 1/500
http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/8622113-L.jpg

[PerezDesignGroup]

Outstanding pics, Pathfinder! I love 'em :thumb:thumb:thumb

[pathfinder]

Outstanding pics, Pathfinder! I love 'em :thumb:thumb:thumbI am glad you enjoyed them - I have always enjoyed images of doors and windows and architectural details and thought it was time to resurrect this thread. Feel free to contribute with your new camera - DO I remember correctly that you have a new camera?:roflA 300D if my memory serves, so show us your stuff:thumb

[pathfinder]

I finally was out for a little shooting today - overcast and grey - a good day to capture doors and windows again:1drink Several people liked red doorways - here is another one - this time to a church.

10D f8 1/30
http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/8622115-S.jpg



And you canot have a red door without a green door also....

10D f5.6 1/500

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/8622113-S.jpg

I can't quit without including the west facing window of the church also - it looks like the building had some repairs at some previous time...

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/8622118-L.jpg

[pathfinder]

Taken this past July in Venice:

[http://arki.smugmug.com/photos/8622688-M-1.jpg]Arki - Welcome aboard. The command to display the image is
"URL of image no spaces"


or
http://arki.smugmug.com/photos/8622688-M-1.jpg]

Can you display the images without the PROOF written all over them?

[wxwax]

Ah, I see you found the thread, arki. I can't see yer pic, for some reason. :scratch.

[Arki]

Ah, I see you found the thread, arki. I can't see yer pic, for some reason. :scratch.

I just deleted my threads as I "un-watermarked" my images but then they didn't show up. I realized that the URL changes...not just image. Anyway, I'll start from scratch...Ugh.

[Arki]

Decided to work on a few more pictures from my recent Italy trip. Here is another window image. This, I believe was taken in Vernazza.

http://arki.smugmug.com/photos/8894694-S.jpg

[pathfinder]

While I was in Vincennes waiting for the sun to go down to shoot the George Rogers Clark Memorial, I wandered around looking for doors and windows in the waning evening light, and found these two images....

Harley-Davidson Motorcycle cafe....
http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/8899509-L.jpg


And this Colonial Framer's Shop...
http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/8899511-L.jpg

[ginger_55]

My, I have never seen those places, I imagine many things are changed. It was a real small town, I mean a normal small town, when I lived there in the seventies. Not small town pretty, kind of small town dreary. But real working stores. The high school was still in town, so was the library, small and old.

Parades were real parades............etc, etc........ thanks for the memories, but that is a new town there. I really like the first photo.

I told my daughter, a member of dgrin, about your shot in Vincennes. She was excited, but I don't know if she will remember as she worked nights the last two nights, with day today. She is a micro lab supervisor, and she has to train people as they are putting a new lab in. She is stressed.

But she spent her teenage years in Vincennes, graduated high school there, so she was very excited. I was hoping she would get online.

ginger

[LBG]

US Department of Edcuation in DC. Sun was setting and the contrast between the windows and the stone building struck me.
http://lbg.smugmug.com/photos/8916193-L.jpg

[pathfinder]

US Department of Edcuation in DC. Sun was setting and the contrast between the windows and the stone building struck me.
http://lbg.smugmug.com/photos/8916193-L.jpg

Nice graphical repetitive image - displays falling back perspective. Is correcting the perspective better or worse for this image? Not sure I know the answer myself.

Interesting - I did nothing but open the file in PS as an sRGB image and crop and then save as a jpg. I expected no change but the cropping, but check the change in the tonality and brightness! - Is this from assigning the sRGB colorspace to the image when I opened the file in PS?

[wxwax]

:scratch Very interesting. And not a good thing.

[pathfinder]

:scratch Very interesting. And not a good thing.
This was a totally unexpected finding, Sid.
http://lbg.smugmug.com/photos/8916193-S.jpg

http://www.dgrin.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2252&stc=1

I right-clicked the image of the Federal windows to save as a jpg to my hard drive. I then opened the image in PS CS and it said there was no assigned color space and asked if it should be left alone or assigned to sRGB. I have been assigning all images destined for dgrin to the sRGB color space. I then used the crop tool to correct the falling away perspective and saved the image as a jpg at level 4 or 5 for about an 85Kb file and uploaded it to dgrin as an attachment.

The perspective was corrected -(better or not I still have not decided, but I tend to correct perspective in my own images as they usually look better)- but then I noticed that the color of the building is not EXACTLY the same as the picture I uploaded and both images are being viewed on the same monitor so any differences must be in the image file - Is this due to jpg compression and losses during saving or what?

The original image is listed as 80Kb and mine after uploading is about 90Kb so I would not think there should be serious compression losses, but :dunno

[LBG]

The reason no color space was assigned is because the original image was saved for the web. Saving for the web eliminates all exif information to make the file lighter. File originally shot sRGB II.
The reason your color and contrast are different is because your image is magnified compared to the orginal. It is atleast 20% larger. The second file is almost an inch lareger in both H&W with less DPI than the original. I think the differnce in color is attributed to the larger image and image degredation. See attachement: Original on right.

[pathfinder]

The reason no color space was assigned is because the original image was saved for the web. Saving for the web eliminates all exif information to make the file lighter. File originally shot sRGB II.
The reason your color and contrast are different is because your image is magnified compared to the orginal. It is atleast 20% larger. Not when scaled in PS CS . The second file is almost an inch lareger in both H&W with less DPI than the original. Not true! Check my numbers taken from Image size in PS CS directly below. I think the differnce in color is attributed to the larger image and image degredation. See attachement: Original on right.


Actually, LBG, when I open the original jpg that I right clicked to down load and the perspective cropped file that I saved to upload and look at the image sizes in pixels, inches and Mb the original image ( your image) is smaller in Mb and in size then mine. To wit:

Your original image is read by PS CS as 800x600 pixels 1.48 Mb
11.11 inches x 8.972 inches at 72 ppi
800*600= 480,000 pixels


My cropped image is read by PS CS Image size cmnd as
776 x705 pixels 1.57 Mb
10.778 inches x 9.792 at 72 ppi

776*705=547080 pixels 547080-480000=67000 67000/480000= 13.95 % larger number of pixels in 2nd image

Do you think the size difference in the files is responsible for the differences in hue and saturation in the images? I really wonder if that is the true reason here :scratch

It is true that the additional pixels in my image were interpolated by PS CS in scaling up, but I have seen images enlarged 10x or more and you could not see any color differences at all in the prints.

I still remain unconvinced that the answer is as simple as you suggest. No disrepect is intended here - Like Sid I just find this a very unusual finding and desire to understand it if I can.
I would be interested in other opininions by viewers also. :1drink

[rutt]

Here is one I shot almost a month ago on my second to last day in Nantucket. I'm just getting around to sorting these out now.

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/9256638-L.jpg

[pathfinder]

Here is one I shot almost a month ago on my second to last day in Nantucket. I'm just getting around to sorting these out now.

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/9256638-S.jpg

SO nice to see you back again, John.
:1drink