I have this holiday thing to do with old doors and windows. I have so many photo’s of windows, shutters, pretty window sill’s and gorgeous painted exteriors from all our holiday destinations, that you’d think I was going to wallpaper the house with them all.
There are many reasons why I love my family but one of them has got to be the way they tolerate me walking 5 minutes behind snapping at odd angles or calling a halt on a car journey so I can leap out and capture something I’ve just seen.
I guess houses capture something of real domestic life in some way. Hard to imagine a Greek visitor to the UK would snap a picture of our road but that’s culture for you.
I like the colours, the paint, the aging, the superficial look of a place, but most of all I think I take these pictures as I am asking myself “Would I live here?’, ‘Could I live here?’ and that’s what travel is all about, that stretch of the imagination for the possibilities of new horizon’s.
Last up tomorrow is a bit of the island’s crochet.
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August 28, 2011 at 9:46 am
Lesley
Claire,
I have been ‘dropping in’ on your blog now for a while and have never left a comment on your beautiful work which I should have done! But these photos are a stunning collection and show that you have an artist’s eye so very clearly. It looks like a magical place to visit.