Here are the guidelines: You select one of your own photos to post that in some way utilizes the topic. Use the topic as a concrete prompt, or find a novel approach. Each person, just one post/photo per thread topic, (or two if you must)please. Photos should be resized to be no wider than 600 pixels. Too-large photos slow down the loading of the thread, and will be deleted. Read about how to post a photo in a thread, here. If you have an idea for a photo hunt topic, contact one of the Mods to offer the suggestion instead of beginning another thread.
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This week's prompt is "Window"
You're encouraged to describe your photo--where you shot it, details of what you were doing or what was going on, etc.
Posts: 9585 | Location: Edmonds, WA | Registered: 25 October 2001
Built in a time where glass windows were less common -- the 16th century covered marketplace's colonnade in Simiane la Rotunde, looking out over Blois de la Plate. Photo taken in April 2008 on one of the few days where the Mistral ran away and let us enjoy the sun up in the hills.
The blue shuttered windows - so very French. This one above a particularly picturesque Mairie, in Chateauneuf-du-Pape. I sure enjoy these Photohunts. With a zillion photos to choose from, I always have a few candidates for this. Linda
Posts: 934 | Location: Outlying area of Chicago | Registered: 15 September 2004
I took this pic just outside the Roman theatre in Orange in June 2008. The lower two sets of windows and the top set of windows are real. The set of windows with the open shutters are a piece of artwork, a sort of trompe-l'œil. I loved spotting the effect!
Chartres Cathedral, in the chapel area of the crypt... This is one of the ancient stained glass windows still intact in the crypt underneath the cathedral. It is relatively easy to take a hundred or more of these images in this area when you find yourself trapped in the crypt for hours, after a guided tour leaves you behind and locks you in!
"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in." ~ Alan Alda Brenda
We enjoyed seeing Chateau Beynac, a defensive chateau, in the Dordogne in 2006. One of the early Barons of Beynac was Richard 1e, Coeur de Lion, and that was a point of pride. This bedroom window had a sign that basically said, "Richard the Lion-Heart slept here."
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wonderful photos by all. Judy, my husband before his death booked the Colombe for my birthday several times. Did you go upstairs in the p.o. where there are photos of all the celebrities who stayed there?
Posts: 1277 | Location: cambridge,ma.usa | Registered: 27 January 2003
We were driving along a back road in Provence several years ago when I spotted this lonely looking house. Its two rows of shuttered windows and the overhanging plane trees gave it a melancholy feel, but at the same time I loved how typically Provencal it was.
This was taken on 15 June 2008. The town of Vaison was a virtual outdoor photo gallery, with photos of local identities in windows, doors and on walls.
Whyle touring the beaches of Omaha,Juno,Sword and Gold. We visited the back country and stumbled by sheer accident upon one of the quaintest village of Normandie. This is but one of many photos of that day. Enjoy
I've always wondered about these barred windows. Is it to keep the flowers from wandering away ? Or to keep nifty habds away.. Me thinks, we have the answer. Just a rhetorical question inspired by your photo.
