Windows and Doors

Luxembourg

I’m going to let these pictures speak for themselves and I will just note where they are from.  I find windows and doors fascinating.  Windows allow you a vision into another world (although you can’t always see in or through – the option is there).  What is behind that world is so varied and can be anything.  To me they are vulnerable and inviting.  They are open and welcoming.  They breath and are bright – for the most part.

Lubeck

Cologne

They also often offer good contrast between colours and textures and light and dark.  But sometimes they speak of other things – of a time past – of a time forgotten.  A time of oppression or of fear.  Attempts to keep the outside out but still let the light in.

Lecce

Sometimes both doors and windows together speak their own story.

Lecce

Lecce

Doors fascinate me too because they close the world out.  You can’t see beyond them.  There is that funny quip when someone is standing in the way of your vision “you make a better door than a window”.  But they can be so beautiful and so welcoming or they can be cold and seem to be saying – “stay away”.

Sweden

Stockholm

To me they are hopeful because you don’t know what lies beyond.  It can be a mystery.  It could be something good or something bad.  They make me want to get inside – to see what is lying beyond.

Cologne

I have taken so many pictures of doors and windows and I really should sit down with all of my pictures and gather them up and put them in a file and pick my favourites and then look at them and wonder why they are my favourites.  I think they can speak volumes about a person’s personality.  So what are you today – a door or a window?

Luxembourg

Luxembourg

I also have a fascination with stairs, archways and toilets – but those are a whole other story.