I love taking photos of windows especially when I am travelling. These two windows are in a place called Split in Croatia I took quite a few years ago but they came to mind when I saw this photo challenge.
Many more windows can be seen at Lost in Translation
I love the idea of Simple Things.
Like a little Super Fairy Wren looking for a snack
A row of chairs in a church in Verona
An old tap the one day may be turned on again in Venice
A blue bottle left on a plinth with blue graffiti in Bologna
Chimney pots in Paris
Days end in a cafe in my home town
Or the Simple Thing of finding that place to have a rest in my garden
Look at the Simple Things that other have found
The Daily Post photo challenge made me think of the photos I have with reflections. The ones that I chose were from the hours spent in La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. The whole structure is so amazing. The outside with its many carvings and intricate designs but once inside the amazement turns to wonderment. The light through the myriad of stained glass windows is breathtaking.
The light reflects on every surface lighting the Sagrada with dancing colours.
This a small selection of what I saw.
The walls
The columns
The floor – a cool blue
The floor – a fiery red
So many ideas pop into my head for Cee’s Which Way photo challenge I decided to do something different this time.
The Tram at Glenelg in Adelaide South Australia
Flying high above the clouds
What a challenge! I couldn’t think of anything then a bit of inspiration kicked in which led to too many ideas.
Looking through to a garden in Rome.
One of the many colonnades in Bologna
Letting the ferry through the lock in Paris
Looking through time in the 12th Century church in Verona
Not many through photos from Australia as the ideas of those came to late
This time my Odd Balls come from Italy
The rather fierce looking door knocker
I wonder if the cart delivered the rocks?
A room of cheese
Who cuts your hair?
Winding…..the theme for Paula’s Thursday Special
I immediately thought of the main idea within the challenge which in part mentions spiral stairs in a quote from Yeats.
The well worn stairs in the lighthouse at Cape Otway in Victoria Australia
The stairs in the apartment building we stayed in in Paris. Seven flights made sure you remembered everything before adventuring in Paris.
But also the winding that most photographers do with their tripods
and in the case of my old wine press, lots of winding to extract the lovely juices
But best of all was the many stairs we climbed to see the wonderful fall of the lights in the Grand Hyatt in South Korea – “….we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are…”
Thanks Paula for the inspiration and time to set the challenges.
Which way? It is an old saying from the early explorers, latter day travelers to anyone who is lost.
Sometimes there is a sign that you could follow
Often the way to go on boardwalks is a matter of luck to where you may end up.
The stairs with the cascade of water droplet lights are such a marvelous sight in the Grand Hyatt in South Korea
bushboy photos for the Which Way photo challenge
When I travel, I am always looking for something that has some sort of appeal to me. Whether it is concrete or abstract there nearly is always a photo in something that I see and perhaps, others do too. I often find I am drawn to many the same theme. Those themes have been the subject in the past and of other blogs as time goes on. This time I would like to let you into my world of the everyday stuff that I see. Often I will take a photograph, to the quizzical looks of people who wonder what the hell is he photographing!!! This is true especially on holidays where there is a lot of people wandering about the same cities or towns as me. So off we go, starting at the top.
The tiles on rooves have patterns, shapes and colours and sometimes perhaps a plants or two.
And in this case moss or lichens. It could almost be vegetation on a terraced hillside.
I love the ceramic chimney pots. They contrast with the new looking tiles in the background.
These chimney pots seemed like rather severe looking totem poles.
This was on a roof near our Paris apartment. We thought it was our own Ned Kelly or medieval warrior looking after us, spear in hand.
Some places have the most amazing ceilings, quite often in churches but this one was in a large shopping center in Milan
Some walls in the old churches have the most amazing construction. Imagine looking upwards to see these bricks jutting out in a higgledy-piggledy fashion.
In contrast, this wall was in the cafe at the Venice Biennale showcasing modern art. Yes it is a flat wall.
Whereas this sloping wall was in the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Korea.
Again, the modern art world showed geometry on the walls of the Confluence Museum of Art in Lyon.
The Koreans really embraced the world of modern art with this window between the bedroom and bathroom in our room in the Grand Hyatt.
This sign on the wall in Venice seemed poignant as everywhere we went in Italy people smoked cigarettes regardless of where they were.
There were many different floors with patterns or geometrical designs. This was hard to walk on while looking down as it made walking in a straight line difficult.
I don’t know how many cobblestone roads we walked down. This one in Stirling, Scotland, wet and late in the afternoon drew me into its seemingly wavy pattern.
Lights have always been a source of inspiration whether they are candles in a church.
Or modern sculpture like this one of cascading balls from the third floor to the ground in Korea.
Or beautiful old Murano glass light in the entrance of the hotel in Genoa.
I guess I have a certain fascination for water. The Autumn leaves floating in the water feature in Dijon summed up the first cool wet day.
Reflections in water always look so abstract. A bit of blue sky and the sides of a boat rippling on the water in the canal caught my eye in Burano.
Further down the canal the colours changed to green and “gold” to make me feel at home.
To get water often you need a tap. I don’t think much water has flowed from this tap in quite a while. The tap was in a rather large old building in Arsenale, Venice which had an art installation. I saw a few people wander over to the tap after I walked away, probably wondering what I was photographing.
Just walking down the road, exploring the neighbourhood when we got to Bologna, the blue bottle on the graffitied concrete column of the building just seemed like an art installation.
If you have water, you quite often need a teapot, even if it is part of an art installation from China.
Teapot always needs some tea cups.
There were lots of chairs in the church. This is just a part of all of the chairs. There was so many.
Sometimes looking into a sculpture changes the perception of how the work makes you feel.
This was the Canadian Exhibit in the Venice Biennale. It was a shop with so much “for sale” as well as a lot of used items to ponder.
The posters on the walls of so many places had me perplexed but I appreciated the work especially combined with the everyday life.
Road signs sometimes get altered. I have no words.
Did you enjoy my holiday snaps? Leave me a comment to let me know what you likes most. Stay tuned for the next installment of my holiday photos – better than a slide night.
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