Saturday Snapshots #5
Lucky or unlucky, November 2007
I found this door in the beautiful and ancient village of Auvillar on the Garonne in Gascony. The village is well worth a visit for lovers of history, art or photography. And for food lovers there is always the Sunday produce market, held in an unusual open-sided circular grain market.
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The colours and textures are exquisite. I love it.
Posted by: Barbara | September 27, 2008 at 12:35 PM
Wonderful 'snap'. Have you tinkered to enhance the grainy feel?
Posted by: Andrew | September 27, 2008 at 04:10 PM
Beautiful as always.
The door doesn't seem to have door handle. I wonder if its only a decorative door?
Posted by: ELRA | September 27, 2008 at 04:35 PM
Barbara - thank you! The whole village was a visual delight...
Andrew - it was shot at my usual crazy ISO of 1600 which might explain some of the inherent graininess. Other than that I cropped, pumped up the midtone contrast and saturated the blues.
Elra - well spotted!! Looking at another pic of the whole building (it's the town's Office de Tourisme, btw) it seems these are probably shutters rather than doors. Presumably the door behind the shutters has a handle. Or maybe they just don't like tourists ;-)
Posted by: Jeanne | September 27, 2008 at 04:59 PM
What a load of character the door has. It's a beautiful snapshot Jeanne! Love the attention to detail...
Posted by: Deeba | September 28, 2008 at 01:16 PM
I took lots of photos of doors and gates when I was in Greece:D They make such interesting photos:D
Posted by: Bellini Valli | September 28, 2008 at 03:30 PM
Love this one!
Posted by: Kalyn | September 28, 2008 at 04:59 PM
I adore this type of photography....the colours, the textures, the history WOW!! Well done xxx
Posted by: Browniegirl | September 29, 2008 at 02:13 PM
I like the textures, the patterns, the colours well everything actually! great shot!
Posted by: ilva | October 01, 2008 at 07:20 AM
What a beautiful picture - as usual!
Posted by: Rosemary | October 01, 2008 at 10:19 AM
What camera are you using?
Posted by: justfoodnow | October 11, 2008 at 11:26 PM