Porta a Forcall

Posted by Condemna (Barcelona, Andorra) on 16 May 2008 in Landscape & Rural.

Another example of rural aesthetics. No one bothered me while taking this one, but I'll soon feel the breath of tourists on my neck when photographing the village...

Come and see. Please, feel free to make comments, nice or otherwise, everything is appreciated.

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An -unlikely- attempt to redirect my career towards art...
Un -improbable- intent de redirigir la meva carrera cap al món de l'art...

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Comments (7)

Observing from Chester, United Kingdom

Fabulous BW image with lots of detail.

16 May 2008 3:03am

@Observing: Thank you, glad you like it. It's pretty amazing what time and weather do to wooden doors. This one is in black and white because the real colors were mostly shades of grey and because I think I'm able to better transmit the sensation of the wood being "burned" by sunlight over the years...

elmenut from Salt, Spain

quines textures tant impressionants.
em sembla que entenc les explicacions en anglès(oh! miracle)i no dubtis que aquesta imatge jo també l'hauria fet en b&w.
tens informació del que volen dir o representen les xifres??
bon dia.

16 May 2008 3:59am

@elmenut: Gràcies! Per si un cas, deia que la foto original eren basicament tons de gris i que per tant el BiN tenia sentit, i a més em serveix per transmetre la sesnsacio de la fusta cremada pel sol.

Pel que fa als numeros, doncs no ho sé, perquè no són ni l'any ni el número del carrer. Jo més aviat m'inclino per pensar que els números ja estaven en la fusta que van fer servir fa anys per "arreglar" la porta i allà s'han quedat com a monument a l'absurditat de les coses...

Henry from Boston, United States

For me, weathered wood always hints at romantic tales of what it may have witnessed. This image is tough to present (I cannot fit it completely on my very large monitor). HOWEVER, were it to fit, I don't think I would see all the detail that is grabbing my attention. This image presents itself on several levels. There is the whole and then a step in to the next level of details, and then another step in for the smaller details.

This is something I would have enjoyed photographing as well.

16 May 2008 8:06am

@Henry: Thanks for the comment!
I don't fully understand how the images are handled by Aminus3: some photos appear on screen much larger than others even if the originals uploaded are not that different in size... It's true that very large images are not easy to watch. I'd like to print this one in large format, I think it could work well precisely because of what you say: the door was interesting as a whole, and the different wood parts composing it were interesting by themselves.