Gallery: look through any window
Look through any window, yeah
What do you see
Songwriters Charles Silverman & Graham Gouldman, recorded by the Hollies
What is it that attracts photographers to capture so many doors and windows? Is it because they stand out from the rest of the building? Is it something less conscious, being drawn to exits and entrances as offering adventure (or a way out)?
While I take many photos of windows, relatively few are from inside looking out. So thought at first that I would struggle with this week’s Sunday Stills challenge from Terri, Looking at Life Through a Window. But when I started to look I was surprised how many I found, so here’s a selection.
Cottages in St Ives, Cornwall, seen through a rainy window in the Tate Gallery
[my feature photo was also taken here, looking towards the beach]
It’s good to include a frame if you want no one to be in any doubt that the shot was taken through a window!
A wintery beach view from a café in Whitstable, Kent
The view from our hotel in Puerto Natales, Chile, again through a frame
A lovely view of the sea from inside Our Lady Of Fatima Roman Catholic Church, Ocho Rios, Jamaica
Our view from a roadside restaurant in Colombia
Another restaurant view, this time with refreshments, Fjellstua, Tromsø
A table with a view at a window in Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland
Ruins have windows too!
A view from Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire
The ruins of Fort Union, New Mexico
Looking out from Jabrin Castle, Oman, a restored ruin
Can I also include a few of other people looking through a window? I reckon so!
At Amber Fort near Jaipur, Rajasthan
A visitor to Wat Xieng Thong, Luang Prabang, Laos
In Dhulikhel, Nepal
I’m finishing with a few views from transport windows
This is Skógafoss in Iceland as seen from the window of our coach on the approach
Approaching Addis Ababa on our recent flight from Madagascar
Looking down at the banks of the Rhine through a glass floor in a cable car, Koblenz, Germany
And finally, just for fun, a rather unusual traffic jam …
On the road with our guide and driver, Hussein, near Salalah, Oman
39 Comments
Sue
Love your windows with views…
Sarah Wilkie
Thanks Sue 🙂 I think I’ve seen similar ‘framing’ shots from you in the past?
Sue
You most certainly have, Sarah!
wetanddustyroads
We don’t take a lot of pictures through windows (when we see a nice view, we usually walk out to take a picture – except when I’m in the car and we’re driving, obviously). But now, after seeing your photos, next time we’ll use the window rather as a frame. My favourite photo is the one in Colombia – love the road leading off into the distance.
Sarah Wilkie
Sometimes it’s not possible to walk out, and sometimes when you do it’s not possible to get the same angle or perspective as from the window, so it’s fun to be able to do both!
Wind Kisses
Such a nice variety of windows Sarah. I even loved the rainy ones. So many to love.
Sarah Wilkie
Thank you Donna 😊 I like to look at the rain from inside!
Wind Kisses
It is funny. I love watching in rain too. And when we lived in WA and Oregon it seemed so peaceful. Now that we live in Arizona, as soon as it rains we go out in in. The last time, my granddaughter was here. We walked though every puddle in the neighborhood. Great fun when it is out of the ordinary.
Sarah Wilkie
While there’s too much rain here for me to find it a novelty, splashing in puddles seems to be a universal bit of fun for small kinds!
Jane Lurie
I love this theme, Sarah and you have such a great variety of images. Big fan of rainy windows and your “frame in a frames” are beautiful- Jamaica and Bamburgh. But it’s the images with the people in windows that really sing for me in this set. Wonderful, all of them! Hope you have many more fun adventures this coming year. 🙂
Sarah Wilkie
Thanks so much Jane 😊 Just as you mentioned to me, it’s always great to hear which ones stand out for you. And yes, a few adventures planned, starting with Mexico next month!
Jane Lurie
Enjoy!!
Amy
Beautiful gallery through these windows, especially the ones people look through windows.
Sarah Wilkie
Thanks so much Amy, I’m pleased you liked those ones in particular as they’re the hardest to capture!
Brad M
Interested way of “framing” photography.
Sarah Wilkie
Thank you Brad – it’s fun, if you can find an appropriate window!
margaret21
I’ll have to return later to this fabulous looking post. Life a bit full-on just now!
Sarah Wilkie
Thanks for popping in Margaret, but please don’t feel you have to when you’re so busy with family 😘
Egídio
All such gorgeous views!
Sarah Wilkie
Thank you 🙂
the eternal traveller
What a beautiful gallery. I love taking photos from the inside looking out through a window, especially when the window is an unusual shape. My favourite of this collection is Bamburgh Castle.
Sarah Wilkie
Thank you – Bamburgh Castle is an amazing place, beautiful inside and in a dramatic location!
sustainabilitea
Love the rain shots, the table in the castle with a view, and the traffic jam is rather good, as well as very unusual. 🙂 I loved seeing the Ft. Union shot because that’s a place we want to stop one day.
Sarah Wilkie
Thank you Janet 😊 The weather wasn’t great when we were at Fort Union (grey and drizzly) so we didn’t explore as thoroughly as we might have done, but it had a lot of atmosphere.
grandmisadventures
I always rain on a window but even that can’t beat a traffic jam of camels 🙂
Sarah Wilkie
Haha no, that was a fun traffic jam to be stuck in!
Sylvia - starship-VT
Great post, Sarah! Looking back at your myriad of travels as your ‘windows on the world’! I think it has inspired me to look back through my own travels and possibly do my own ‘windows on the world’ blog!! Nice choice of photos!
Sarah Wilkie
Thanks so much Sylvia, it’s great to hear from you 😊 I haven’t seen much on your own blog lately – am I missing posts or have you been quieter there? Sx
Anne Sandler
What a great collection of windows from inside out! I especially liked the rain and your environmental portraits.
Sarah Wilkie
Thank you Anne, I had fun putting this together 😀 I like to watch the rain from inside a window!
Teresa
A wonderful collection. Great captures from inside looking out. Love the raindrops.
Sarah Wilkie
Thank you Teresa 😊 I enjoy doing those semi abstract rain shots, though they don’t always come out as I’d hoped!
Anonymous
This is from Terri commenting from jetpack app on my phone (log in optional)…I’m glad you found so many images of windows, these are delightful. I love the two men looking and leaning out the windows. Great shots. Views from the airplane windows always make for compelling perspective images.
Sarah Wilkie
Thank you Terri (and thanks for saying who you are – sonce WP changed its log-in process I get far too many anonymous comments!) Glad you enjoyed my contribution this week 😀
Alison
Another wonderful set of photos. The ones of other people are just fabulous. I’ve done this challenge before so I thought I didn’t have anything new to offer but looking at yours I see I should have thought outside of the box 😁
Sarah Wilkie
Thank you Alison 😊 I’ve done windows from outside previously but I don’t think from the inside. Terri also talked about the idea of a window of opportunity – maybe you could do something on those lines?
Alison
I’d like too, but there are so many good challenges atm that by the time I’ve got my act together I’ve missed them all 😐
thehungrytravellers.blog
And you managed to avoid capturing the glare too! You’re right, I think, that the attraction of doors and windows is the connection with change, movement, transition….and therefore adventure. A glimpse of what’s next, perhaps.
Sarah Wilkie
I think that’s probably true 🙂 As to the glare, I have plenty with some of that too, but I either reject them or crop it out! Putting the lens right against the glass usually helps but that’s no good if you want to include the frame of course.