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Occasionally I just observe... I walk down the street and I observe things, I photograph it, and then I come home and I look at those photos... Observing is for me a necessary process, it helps me to understand the real dimension of the elements I have at hand to take street photos. With windows this happens in a very particular and recurrent way. It can happen that I take a picture of an old window and that's all, I don't want to take another picture of that same window because I already have it in my portfolio. But after taking a close look at that same window, I discover in it a universe of incredibly diverse visual possibilities. This applies to almost anything, anywhere or any scene that can be photographed. But today in particular, it is about "Windows" and these are my photos to share with you...

📷 01- "Demetrius's window"

📷 02- "Armando's bar window"

📷 03- "Window in Juan Carlos's house"

Windows are susceptible to change due to various factors. Here in my village many things happen to windows, I have learned this over the years by walking the streets and observing them. Sometimes (the slowest way) it is time and weathering that turns one window into another. Other times something as subtle as a change in the incidence of light, the hour and/or the weather during the photograph or even something as subjective as my decision of the angle and the total percentage of the window to photograph, make me have a different photo at different times of a window that "is the same, but somehow is not"... That is one of the wonders of street photography in a place I know perfectly well.

📷 04- "Window in Mariela's home"

📷 05- "Raul's window under repair"

📷 06- "The window of the seamstress who died"

The windows seen from outside, from the street, are a charming object and a wonderful photographic reference. But windows also speak of what goes on inside the house and can even give away something of what we ourselves know or believe about the place to which they belong. In most cases, photos of windows have for me an indelible association with the place they belong to. In most cases, photos of windows have for me an inextricable association with the people who live behind those facades. Of course, that has directly to do with the fact that I know almost everyone here in my town...

📷 07- "Blue window at William's old club"

📷 08- "Teacher Luisa's window"

📷 09- "Window in the house of people I don't know"

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BLACK AND WHITE VERSIONS

Obviously... These windows couldn't be left without their black and white versions!... So I edited each photograph starting from the JPG versions and desaturating the images and then using some layers to adjust levels and add vignettes. I really liked the results and because of that I am sharing them with you. I hope you like them in monochrome as much as I do...

📷 01- "Demetrius's window"

📷 02- "Armando's bar window"

📷 03- "Window in Juan Carlos's house"

📷 04- "Window in Mariela's home"

📷 05- "Raul's window under repair"

📷 06- "The window of the seamstress who died"

📷 07- "Blue window at William's old club"

📷 08- "Teacher Luisa's window"

📷 09- "Window in the house of people I don't know"

ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL NOTE: Photographs captured with my Nikon D7000 DSLR camera in RAW format, then processed in Adobe Camera RAW for adjustments regarding light, sharpening, contrast and depth... The shots are then exported to JGP format on which minor modifications such as straightening and adding watermarks were carried out using PhotoScape 3.6.3.

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Thank you very much for your visit and appreciation!

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Montalbán, Carabobo, Venezuela.