Indoor Windows (Lens-Artist Challenge #14)

This post to join in with the Lens-artist challenge for WINDOWS (here) and my take on this theme is INDOOR WINDOWS

There is a small restaurant across town that has an indoor decor designed to make you feel like you are in Italy. We have a few friends that love to dine out at this casual eatery, but we hope to never eat there again. Just not our thing. On our last visit there, I grabbed a few photos of the indoor windows.  Let’s start with this lit up window in the wall. I have three different takes:

AUTHOR UPDATE – The feedback in some of the comments indicated to me that I might not have made it clear that the first three windows in this post are the SAME indoor window. I shared three takes to show how different this indoor window can look depending on light and settings.

So here is an updated picture showing the three closer together:

 

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More of the indoor windows – and light from the real window (center back).

I like how back windows sometimes give us light that provides a partly-silhouetted image:

The previous “partly-silhouetted image” reminded me of a quick photo shoot I had this summer (2018) at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA).

Here are some of my partly-silhouetted images:

 

Partly-silhouetted image #1 (Notice the VMFA’s Chihuly glass through the window? I like the lines here – the outside faint details and then inside we have tiles, chairs, wall feature, and of course – the man)

Partly-silhouetted image #2 (perhaps an angelic-glow from the right side window light – we are not alone…. oooo…)

Partly-silhouetted image #3 (In this shot, I like the contrast of nature and green outside the center window with the indoor elements. I also like the way our subject, to the left, has the tattoo and stripe on her shirt that coordinates with the stripe in the ship and other elements to the right – what do you think?) I also like T’s eyelashes and the little area with her fingers, phone, vertical of the pencil, and basket verticals….

Partly-silhouetted image #4 – So much to explore here – our subject and her looking up stance with the fun ponytail  – and the shapes, lines, texture, and three different types of backlight: ceiling grid, box with the pottery, and back window. 

 

Partly-silhouetted image #5 – I like the mood here and my top takeaway of this shot has to do with the straight vertical lines behind the more organic lines that make up the outline of the subject. I also like the other verticals. 

I know we do not always have to pick a top image from a post – but sometimes I like to – and my top two images for this post are: Partly-silhouetted image #3 and Indoor Window Take 2.  Et tu?

 

Care to join in with this challenge?  Check out the weekly hosts:

Week 1–Patti of https://pilotfishblog.com/

Week 2–Ann-Christine of https://lagottocattleya.wordpress.com/

Week 3–Amy of https://shareandconnect.wordpress.com/

Week 4–Tina of https://travelsandtrifles.wordpress.com/

P.S.

Now I have only just started perusing all of the artsy posts for this week’s Lens- Artist Challenge (#14) and I really liked Sue Judd’s “window cleaner” (here). It reminded me of Ruth’s “people at work” series (here).

It also reminded me oh wonderful it is to simply work.

Work can be a gift and her window cleaner looks so content (but the entire composition is sweet…).

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Other cool shots of window cleaners:

AJ Vosse (here) has window workers “fixing the windows… dangling from a rope on the 9th floor…”

and Tina (here) showed window cleaners in Beijing, China as they worked on the Olympic Village’s Aquatic Center (now a recreational water park).

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