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Wednesday Windows on Wide Eyed In Wonder 11-Jun-2015

I’m in the middle-of-the-week creativity slump, so I’m starting a weekly Wednesday feature – Wednesday Windows on Wide Eyed in Wonder.

I will be posting a photo of windows (the ones you look out of, not the ones that are prefixed by the word “Microsoft”). I seem to take a lot of them wherever I go, so it must count as a fascination or maybe just plain obsession.

You are welcome to join in the feature – there is no theme other than “windows”. If you do join leave the link to your post in the comments below.

As you can see this is by no means a professionally run weekly feature or challenge. I’m doing it to indulge my fascination, so if you have one too, please do join.

The window below belongs to an old building situated in a narrow road in Lisbon’s Bairro Alto.  The buildings have been standing for over a hundred years. The  building on the left is now being renovated, top to bottom. I can’t wait to see it. The lamp on the bottom of the photo was once gas-fired. I wonder, as I look at these windows, at the people who looked out of them on to the street below. Who were they? Were they happy? What was their story?

Wednesday windows Lisbon by reginamartins.com
Window on an old building in Lisbon, Portugal

Please do join in the feature.

From Bairro Alto to Kalk Bay

Day Twelve: Architecture and Monochrome

Ok, so I’ve been off the radar since last week and I may or may not catch up on the assignments.  Only time will tell. Perhaps I’ll bombard The Commons with six posts tomorrow.

For today’s assignment we have to consider the beauty and complexity of architecture, and explore the drama in black and white, or monochrome.

The first photo is of a beautiful Edwardian villa in Kalk Bay, a classic colonial style. It’s been a guesthouse since about 1917.

Inn at Castlehill guesthouse in Kalk Bay, Cape Town, South Africa
Inn at Castlehill guesthouse in Kalk Bay, Cape Town, South Africa

The shadows cast by the buildings along the narrow streets of the Bairro Alto in Lisbon at night lend them a monochromatic cast. Sounds are muffled creating invisible walls as one walks through the streets at night.

Bairro Alto (Lisbon, Portugal)
Bairro Alto (Lisbon, Portugal)

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