Whether inside looking out or outside looking in, it often feels like you’re in both places – you feel the atmosphere and hear the sounds around you, but as your visual attention pulls you through the window, your mind begins to loosen its bonds to the senses that hold you in place….
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This week the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is to illustrate “inside.” No sooner do I think about “inside” than I want to consider “outside.” How do the two interact? Hence these photos, which were taken through windows, and of windows. I hope they convey a sense of the complex interplay of light and shadow, reflections, and scenes outside and inside.
More views of “inside” can be found here.
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Great take… of course! Always love your posts! 🙂
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And I yours…
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Love the inside outside connection, and the interplay. They’re all great, but I especially love the first and second. 🙂
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They’re the softer side of me! Thanks Cathy, as always, for visiting & for your thoughts.
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No yin without its yang, no inside without its outside to define it. Nicely done!
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Well put! Thanks!
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Well done Lynn – particularly like the first three – number two especially.
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Thanks Ken. That photo was from a cloudy spring day when I went up to Skagit County to see the tulips, but between the traffic and the gray skies, I took only a few flower photos – of daffodil fields. THen I stopped at a nursery and noticed this window and vine, and some extremely mossy old 40’s pick-ups they had parked in the back, so it wasn’t a loss. You just don’t always get what you planned to get, do you? Almost always works that way.
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Well, what you did get worked out great and if found your last two posts refreshingly innovative and a pleasure to look at.
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Such great pics….wonderful eye for photography
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Thank you for visiting, and for the positive words!
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Very clever!
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Wonderfully moody selection, Lynn. When I saw the first shot in my reader I thought it was Nia and her lovely shots from Turkey, but then you add so much variety. Thanks for sharing 🙂
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I’ll have to look at the commenters on your blog to see who Nia is – Turkey – I’ve always wanted to go there. Thank you Jo!
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Sorry, Lynn. Thought you’d know her. Here’s the link http://photographyofnia.com/ She’s lovely. Say hi for me 🙂
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I enjoy working with windows and similar fixed openings – they provide a ‘natural’ cropping that sharpens or clarifies the focal point of interest – and you have chosen some good examples. I like the second. but especially the third (taking a detached view of the world beneath) and the fifth (the perspective takes me deep into the picture and the grunge effect creates a wonderful atmosphere).
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The third is the Seattle Public Library – so many wonderful architectural details to play with there. The fifth was a building under construction in NY as seen from the High Line, which is an abandoned elevated railbed turned into a park, so you have great views into buildings several stories up, some very new & shiny, some gritty. I’m always drawn to construction sites. Thanks for your thoughts!
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What a marvelous set of unique point-of-view images, Lynn! I had to look at each one for a while, trying to see what you were seeing when you shot the photo. I love when an artist’s eye leads us to see the world in a new way.
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Wow, that’s great to hear, because one thing – probably the moan thing – I’ve always endeavored to do is to show a different view, another way of looking, and of thinking about the world. I was thinking yesterday when I visited your site that you are accomplished in music, writing and photography (not to mention gardening) and probably more. And you do all of them with such grace. So thanks for your words!
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Inside, outside – can’t have one without the other as you have highlighted so beautifully with these exquisite shots!
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Good to hear from you Patti – really! The 5th shot is from the HIgh Line 2 yrs ago, looking into some building. One of my favorite things – construction – always plenty of odd construction scenes on NY streets.
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Simply: WOW! I highly appreciate the way you combine brilliant photos and bright thoughts. A rare pleasure!
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Hmm, simply Wow back at ya, because that’s quite a compliment! Thank you so much.
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Love that first photo, the crisp focus on the fly screen and the small rip that will let the flies through…
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Thanks – yes, that’s a lucky juxtaposition – the Victorian-proper lamp, warmly lit, the lace curtain, and then a torn screen. Details, details!
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Love the second shot – you almost don’t see the lady…till you see her. A work of art.
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Thank you very much – all that moisture and a bit of dirt mixed in give the window a nice patina and make the interior fade a bit! 🙂
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Good job, Lynn. I’m especially drawn to the screen image on top…lots of texture, color…and poetry.
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Thank you John – that was out on Long Island at Bayard Cutting Arboretum – not too far from you, right?
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Wow. Interesting. Bayard is about 60 miles from here.
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Not exactly around the corner, but from here, it qualifies as being in your neck of the woods…
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The tear in that screen really adds so much to the “story”
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‘Inside’ sounds so very definite but you make something else of the meaning BB.
The obscurity in some of your photos here make me want to peer in and see more …
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The pictures tease the imagination as they tell story after story. A pleasure following them.
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This series is an exquisite metaphor of the subtle line that separates the “In” of the “Out”.
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Marcelo, I thank you. They’re not so far apart, and the play between them can be interesting.
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Very clever, thought provoking images that could all quite easily be book covers. Its strange how they all give me a sense of foreboding – its quite unsettling not knowing exactly what lies within isnt it.
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