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Windows and openings fascinate me. Have you ever caught yourself watching what goes on, beyond the place you are occupying, only to suddenly realise you might be prying? We are curious creatures. Perhaps, it is the downside of the creation of glass. It lets in the light, but also encourages the wandering eyes of the observant…not to mention cameras.
Occasionally, over the years, I have taken a photo of a scene through a window or opening. But this trip I decided, where possible, to document what I saw as often as I could. Sometimes I didn’t want to invade privacy so I looked but did not photograph. Once I took a photo when the sign said ‘no photos’. Such a rebel. I assumed it was referring to the goods within the woollen mill, not the actual window or beautiful scene framed beyond. Surreptitiously, I tapped.
No woollens were harmed in the making of this photo…
Melin Wlan Woollen Mill, Snowdonia National Park, North Wales
Looking over the collection of images I realise I have captured a layer of reality that may have otherwise only been experienced subliminally. The seen, and almost seen, the imagined, the incomplete and the exquisitely lighted. Ephemeral. To explain them too much would be to deny you, your own imaginative wonderings, so I’ve only included brief titles and categories. Share your thoughts…
(click on any photo and it will enlarge)
the ecclesiastical…
the places…
the unusual…
the food…
people…
the uncategorised…
the weather…
Boston, Massachusetts, tail end of the hurricane
ardysez 
If there was a LOVE button, I’d click it for sure! I absolutely loved this collection of window images. How fascinating to show us your travels in this unusual perspective. I think this is one of my favorite posts. Well done, Ardys!!
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Oh, thank you so much, Lori. Will have to work on that ‘love’ button!!
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The imaginative views of a quiet observer. The one who sees but is not seen. Absolutely nought wrong from my viewpoint but a delightful share of many sights otherwise unappreciated . . . Our own ‘imaginative wanderings’ logically have to be backed by our own real abilities to make such so . . .thank you for the encouragement to arouse out curiosities to stand in the shade and look and appreciate . . .
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Thank you, Eha, for your appreciation of the images and the effort. I’m really glad I did it.
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A great collection of windows!
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Thank you so much Debi. It was fun to bring it all together.
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Ardys you’ve done a marvelous job of bringing us into your images. Your images in the cathedrals struck me the most. I think mostly because of my love of visiting cathedrals. Also, having visited Anglesey numerous time over my working years, I never visited that cathedral. Thanks for sharing.
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The window at Anglesey is in a little church that had its beginnings in that spot in 600AD! I’ll bet you have seen that little church because the tiny island it is surrounded by a historic cemetery that faces the Menai Bridge, which is World Heritage listed. I took a few nice photos in that area so I may do a post on that. Thank you for your kind comment, Ron, much appreciated.
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I feel like I have the privilege of being privy to a very special private exhibition of works by a talented artist. And of course I have. Incredible creativity grasps insight in a grip that enables technology to deliver me a marvellous experience of wonderful illusory immediacy such that I wonder might I somehow have witnessed it myself.
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It seems rather surreal to me at times when I think about the fact that I’m taking photos with a device that wasn’t invented just over a decade ago, sharing the photos over a medium I’d only barely heard of back then. The techniques I studied in art school 45 years ago are all but irrelevant now. Mind boggling! Thank you for your thoughtful comment, as always, Dale. x
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