.jump-link{ display:none }

Friday 4 March 2022

Windows on Life: Sepia Saturday

This week's Sepia Saturday prompt photograph features a substantiate elegant building,   which I first thought must be French  because  of its architectural style, but turned out to be a vintage view of a large London hotel.  


With an interest in architecture,  I am snap-happy when it comes to photographing windows on holiday, so here I am adding images that bring  back many happy memories. 
 
The Louvre Palace in Paris

Below  - Where 17th century  French architecture meets the contemporary style of the famous glass Louvre Pyramid. Opened in 1989,  it evoked controversy on many grounds. It now provides the entrance to the Louvre Museum, and somehow I think it works. 


Against the backcloth of a classical building,  a cow "marches" on parade atop of a bus shelter in Warsaw.  The  full scale  fibre  glass figures are  decorated  by local artists and represent different aspects of city life and culture 

 The "Cow Parades" have become a popular feature of public art  in many cities across the world, adding colour and interest to the surroundings. 

 
 An unusual corner window in the spa town of Bad Reichenhall in Bavaria. 

A magnificent frontage to a  building  in Traustein in Bavaria, Germany.
 
 
Another Bavarian highly decorated frontage of a hotel in Garmish PartenKirchen.
 


A rustic, homely look to this  attractive  little windows in Austria.



It is not just abroad you will find colourful window boxes.    Just three miles from my home in the Scottish Borders is this hotel in Melrose.   First impressions do count!  

As for someone peeping out through a  window, I had to turn to this picture  of my little granddaughter. 

 
 
 Adapted from a post first published in 2015.
 
***********

 

 Sepia Saturday gives bloggers an opportunity
  to share their family history through photographs.

 
Click HERE to read how other Sepia Saturday bloggers 
have reflected this week's prompt photograph. 
 
 
************************

7 comments:

  1. Wonderful photos of ornate to simply beautiful window treatments!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Beautiful buildings. The ornate fronts are so intricate. But I have to admit I love the flower box windows best. As for the glass Louvre Pyramid, you're more open minded about it than I am. I suppose it's art - modern art - feeling it's terribly out of place in front of the beautiful old building it supposedly represents. Oh well. That's just my opinion. :)

    ReplyDelete
  3. I especially love the Bavarian buildings, of course.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Those Bavarian buildings are beautiful, but the cute little one at the end is surely the best!

    ReplyDelete
  5. Great topic to explore! Modern hotel and commercial windows don't convey the quality and luxury of old buildings. No doubt new windows are more energy efficient and with HVAC don't need to be opened, they don't improve the architecture anymore and are no longer the "eyes" of a building.

    ReplyDelete

Thank you for your comment which will appear on screen after moderation.