Portes et Fenetres

I was browsing through my blog reader today looking at some of the curious things it brings to me, and realized I have a number of things in there just because they show me things that are pretty or curious or interesting. When I go through the reader I always end up with about 20 new windows open with things I might like to make, or things that gave me an idea, or something like that.  I have a thick notebook of cut-outs and notes of things I’m contemplating.  Often I build an idea out of notions suggested to me in a wide variety of these places.  I thought I might share some of them …

The first one I picked is Portes et Fenetres, a blog that is entirely about pictures of doors and windows.  In various parts of Europe.  “Curious, strange or simply beautiful.”

I really love these brief, focused pictorial tours outside my own small part of the world, and I really love this  idea!  It’s so brilliant, the views of entrances into other worlds, transitions of some sort, or just the many, many ideas that go into defining the space where you go from one place to another. Doors/windows are invitations, inceptions, outlets, chances as well as closures, completions, obstructions, endings.  Opaque or transparent. Embellished or simple.

Sometimes in these photos you see where you are, sometimes you see through to somewhere else, sometimes it’s the colors of the photo, sometimes it’s just a strange kind of iron door.

I am a lurker here (my French is past rusty and I admit I shy from speaking English), but a fascinated and loyal reader.  One time they showed this little shop in rural France that made me want to go immediately.  Recently the pictures came from Spain, which I loved, although I really don’t mind wherever these three photographers decide to go.  I’m just happy they share.

The sample picture here is from SE France in Avignon, at the Palais de Papes (papal palace) of the popes-in-exile. The photographer is the younger Guy.