These windows were meant for K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge, yet they appeared in an sometwhat alienated form. So here they are cropped and backlit but otherwise left alone.
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Tag: windows
How many circle fit in a square?
For K’lee’s challenge this week (cosmically circular / cosmically square) I found windows which have both square and circular elements in them and then played around with them. The untempered photos can be seen on Ludwig’s Monday Window.
For more cosmically photos of squares and circles and what have you – click here.
Windows with a view –
but no panes of glass.
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Last of the castle windows
at least for the moment.
This is castle Rennhof in Hüttenfeld. Built in the mid 19th century in the style Empire, it has been used as a Lithuanian School, the only official Lithuanian school in Western Europe.
This is Castle Neckarhausen, built and rebuild since the mid 17th century, the last major remodelling happened in the early 19th century in the neoclassicist style.
And one more time the Baroque style of Mannheim Palace.
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Palace windows
These are windows from the Heidelberg Castle (Renaissance), Gersfeld, Schwetzingen and Mannheim palace (all three Baroque buildings).
Heidelberg, Mannheim and Schwetzingen are in close proximity of each other – one can see that sandstone is a prevalent building material in the area. Gersfeld is not that far away, about the same distance from Frankfurt to the north-east as the others are south.
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A room with a view
And what a view that is! Tomorrow it will be exactly two years that I first visited my friend in her apartment. It looks out on the lighthouse of Roker Beach in Sunderland. The middle frame would make a perfect picture.
Other windows can be found here.
Windows
I find windows fascinating and enjoy taking pictures of them.
They can show off with their forms, or ornaments, or colours, or all of the above.
Yet others like to hide:
Don’t you think that the ones on the right look as if they are peaking out from under the roof like a cat would from under a bedspread?
Still others deceive the onlooker:
The splendid frame around this is trompe l’oeil – painted on the wall but the window is real enough.
They often come in pairs:
which offers opportunities to play around with symmetry – or not.
Some are individuals
whether they are abandoned (at least for a while)
or not.
Like two sides to every story
The next step: “Symmetry“. Horizontal symmetry is more difficult to find than vertical symmetry. Often, though, horizontal symmetry is encountered in reflections. The photo below has little to do with photographic skills, it was taken on a compact camera without viewer which meant I took the shot practically blind because the screen was almost unreadable. Being at the right time at the right spot (at 2265 m altitude on the First above Grindelwald in Switzerland) was all it took.
In any case symmetry in architecture is easier to find than in landscapes because architects have discovered the power of symmetry long ago. The doors below are a case in point.
So are these. But although we look for symmetry as Cee states it is also a fact that flawless symmetry is not something we appreciate too much. Faces that are artificially made completely symmetric are rejected by viewers as they tend to look wrong. I find that slight deviations in the symmetry can enhance the pleasing effect of a photo. In the picture below it is the chalk lettering left by the Epiphany singers with the initials of the three kings, Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, and the year for which their blessing was given (2015) as well as the off centre doorknob which tip the balance.
Here the whole house has been built symmetrically, from the windows which are symmetrical in themselves, to the door with accompanying windows, the pediment, the steps and the railings.
Windows are often paired and lend themselves to symmetrical shots or, the photo can be cropped appropriately. The different reflections in the window panes keep the photofrom being boring but I could have done without the electrical icicles on the right.
Another set of interesting and symmetrical windows. The shadows, of course, point in the same direction and are thus not strictly symmetrical, neither is the plant in the left window but I think this adds interest.
These two doors obviously lead into houses that are build in mirror symmetry but probably furnished individually just like the colour difference. Having once moved from one side of such a house to the other, I know that this mirroring can be quite disconcerting.
An old church with a symmetrical entry through several arches.
But not just architecture, nature itself provides symmetrical topics altough I find them easier to discover on macro level. Again, it shows that’s Louis’ face is approximated rather than perfect symmetry and this is what makes him so attractive.
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