Windows are such irresistable subjects and so I make no apology for featuring them two days running. Yesterday the window gave us no inkling of what went on inside, the heavy drapes creating an exclusion zone with only the merest hint of the life within.Today, looking from the inside of a space, we have some idea of a world beyond. We can see that it is green, bedecked in foliage and gloriously sunny - some of that glory has penetrated within through the five stone-mullioned windows. We could be in a church, a school, a university, a country house; the windows are of an ancient design, universal to the architecture of their period.
I love the way the lead framing and the glass mediates what we see beyond - we're not getting the whole picture, there's still a little leeway left for the imagination.
We may not notice the sombre effect of a passing cloud, the darker vision beyond, the gloomier aspect within. What is certain is that, when the sun reasserts itself, the benevolent burst of golden light through those panes of glass will be as if the world has suddenly smiled.
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And the reflections and shadows, like long trailing gowns, the windows look like they're all dressed up and they haven't got a stitch on.
I never can decide if I'd rather look AT windows like this or THROUGH them, so I go back and forth, back and forth, seeing the beauty of the window and the beauty that it frames. You've captured both so well!
Windows...
The play of the light, the separation of one environment from another, symbolic passage to another dimension... Or just a painful OS by Microsoft!
You have inspired me to show some of mine on my blog. A little off topic, but still.
beautiful picture, beautiful subject and beautifully said.
Wow, that's nicely said and taken Dave. It looks as if I spotted one of my favorite colours, avocado green?!
What I love most about this photo is the sunlight pouring onto, what appears to be, the stone ledge of the window - with the pattern of the panes in shadow.
So pretty.
Thank you, all, very much for your comments.
And, Hannelie, a splash of avacado? There's a novelty!
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