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Window, San Francisco. © Copyright 2019 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
A window covered with security bars.
If this were my window — on this particular street, in this particular position, in this particular city — I suppose that I would install a security system like this, too. (It isn't exactly a "bad" area, but it is one where many thousands of people walk past daily, and the window is right along the sidewalk.)
But that's not really why I made the photograph. I thought the gently suffused lighting was attractive, and I liked the combination of colors, shapes, and light and shadow. Aside from whatever intrinsic value or meaning this photograph may (or may not) have, it is another example of the fact that there are things to see everywhere, and that, in my view, photographing them is a useful way to "tune up" your ability to see things that not everyone might notice.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, "California's Fall Color: A Photographer's Guide to Autumn in the Sierra" is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
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I've driven past this abandon house many times. This time I finally tried out my trespassing skills and pulled over.
Canon 5D Mk III
Canon 24-105L
Nik Software
This is one of the larger arches in Arches National Park. The size of this formation is indicated by the people standing in the bottom of the arch -
A side window inside Dumkeld Cathdral in the Scottish Highlands. I rather liked the sight of the tree shewing through the mesh of the window. Not everyone`s taste, but it appealed to me. I purposely angled the window like this as I felt it to be more interesting.
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Years ago, a friend told me a story from her childhood that I'd not heard before, and I think of it often. The story goes like this:
One morning, a little girl was looking across the valley from her house, admiring the beautiful golden windows on a house on the top of the hill.
"Mom," she said, "Do you see that house on the hill with golden windows? It must be so beautiful there, and the people who live there must be so wealthy! I'll bet they have no problems and their lives are filled with happiness every day. I wish OUR HOUSE had golden windows."
"Oh, darling," replied the mother, "no one's life is perfect. Even people who live in a house with golden windows."
"No, I think you are wrong! I want to go see for myself!" So the mother packed the daughter a lunch, and away the daughter went to cross the valley and see how wonderful life was for the people who lived in the house with golden windows.
The girl walked all day long. As she reached the bottom of the valley, she lost sight of the house but kept going. It was dusk by the time she reached the top of the other hill. But to her surprise, all she found was an ordinary house. She saw no golden ornaments, nothing that made the house look different or more special than any other house. The people looked ordinary, just like the people in her own family. She was puzzled.
Disappointed, she turned around to gaze at her own house across the valley she'd just crossed. And to her surprise, her house was ablaze with light. The windows shone with gold as the setting sun lit them up. In disbelief, she looked again at the ordinary house in front of her, then back to her house gleaming across the way.
"MY house has golden windows!" she said in amazement. She stood for a moment, struck by how beautiful her house looked from this side of the valley. She took off running back down the hill, eager to return to her family.
A shot I took while walking to work one morning of a shop worker preparing the window display
Have a good Sunday everyone
This morning's sunrise was quite the treat as I usually don't get to see them. I like how the bright red sun lit up the large window's of the Wisconsin's capitol rotunda.
Walking tour through Anafiotika, a village within Athens founded by people who came from the Cycladic island of Anafi.
Just joined Project Flickr - this was an open window to as it says on the board - Tea tasting!!
A couple of hours spent in York, 1st ever session doing a bit of street photography :)
The Doors made the "Morrison Hotel" album. Well, I got the Windows XP Hotel. It doesn't have the same kind of klang, though.
Reminds me of flying Windows XP logo screen saver, don't you think?
Those of you living in Helsinki: Can you guess what hotel? :)
I could write a million songs about the way you say my name
I could live a lifetime with you and then do it all again
and like I can't force the sun to rise or hasten summer's start,
neither should I rush my way into your heart
I don't know.