Today is Wednesday, the middle of an intense week, full of diverse news in our country. The news are of diverse nature, ranging from economic to political and even climatic events.... So the best thing I could think to avoid hooking up to my mobile phone and looking at the news, was to take my camera, attach my nice but little used 35mm fixed lens and go to the streets to take pictures...
And as soon as I was out on the street I noticed that the sky was fairly overcast, producing a pleasantly even light but without shadows or excessive contrast. Then I thought: "Wow, this looks like a good day to go and photograph windows all over town"... And that's what I set out to do then.
I usually always photograph windows and doors during my street walks, but every two or three months I usually do these photo shoots during which I specifically focus on checking the windows of the village. Many windows often change dramatically, sometimes simply disappear, maybe I have never seen them before and are a find for me. In other words, there is always something new about windows when I focus on photographing them...
Windows are very eloquent photographic objects. I have them at my disposal and there are many different ones here. Obviously, the conditions of neglect and deterioration add to the eloquence of the windows. But there are also some restored or in the process of being restored, which have the particular charm of old and well-cared-for things...
Occasionally there are big surprises when I go out to take photos on the streets. Today in particular I almost fainted with emotion when this beautiful peacock (photo above) appeared as if by magic, walking quietly down the street while I was photographing that old unfinished window in a facade... Good heavens, there is so much going on here, fortunately I am almost always on the streets carrying my camera!
Over the years I have learned to direct my gaze towards the not so beautiful windows and even towards new windows or windows in the process of being built. During the early years of my street photography walks, I used to take pictures of old windows on the facades of colonial houses. But now I have hybridised the new with the old in my selections of window photographs. I love that, by the way...
Well, these are then the photos of my street tour today looking for a catch up with the views from the windows of my village, I hope you all liked them.... Soon I might do something similar to record images of doors, of which there is also a great diversity in similar conditions...
Thank you very much for your visit and appreciation!
ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL NOTE: Photographs captured with my Nikon D7000 DSLR camera in RAW format, then processed in Adobe Camera RAW for adjustments regarding light, sharpening, contrast and depth... The pictures are then exported to JPG format on which minor modifications such as straightening and adding watermarks were carried out using PhotoScape 3.6.3.
@jlinaresp"We make photographs to understand what our lives mean to ourselves." - Ralph Hattersley.
Camera: Nikon D7000
Lens:AF-S DX NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G
Montalb谩n, Carabobo, Venezuela.