Weekly Photo Challenge no. 40: WINDOWS – it’s a sad, sad situation – but at least soothing sunlight falls through the large windows of a silent abandoned factory in Bochum, a city in Germany. Bochum lost the coal mines activity, the steel industry, recently a production unit of NOKIA and – (on the picture) an abandoned hall of OPEL / General Motors: some parts of automobile industry too. That’s the result of globalism. comment by marineavoile59 / Marine Armstrong: “…it would be a great space for a restaurant, a dance school, a photo gallery, a library… and so many other things… I hope it gets rescued…” – my reply: in the meantime it was destroyed for a cheap global shopping mall…
P.S.:
the mustard colored coverings remained from the last event in this room: an exhibition of modern paintings (weeks before: Opel car exhibition); 80 years before: a train repair factory, in the middle of the circle various movable railway tracks; the wonderful half round architecture was extinguished last year a building like a box is now the ruler of the game: a cheap Penny-market for jobless people …
photo via flickr.com by Frizztext
feel free to add in the comments the link to your own interpretation of this week’s topic WINDOWS
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http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/weekly-photo-challenge-windows
compare other versions of the topic WINDOWS, chosen by wordpress members:
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http://aurelientt.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
my comment to the windows of suburban GLASGOW, Scotland: “…since it became an industry to create houses, the idea of HOME got sick …”
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http://roobo69.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
my comment to Robin: a school likes to feel like a royal palace …
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http://postadaychallenge2011.com/2011/11/04/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
my reply to Jackie Paulson: an armchair, a window, light flooding in, silence – what more do we need?
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http://scottseyephotos.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
my reply to scotseye: “…separated from hustle & bustle on the streets …”
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http://pseu1.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/windows/
reply to pseu1: I also like stained glass craftsmanship; we feel like an owner of a medieval castle …
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http://insellos.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
frizz-question: aged 65 we should take a bus, should give away our drivers’ license?
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http://isobelandcat.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
frizz-reply to a fine gallery of UK-windows: my favorite: the cat looking out of the window …
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http://jmeyersforeman.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/window-display-creative-vision-or-creative-view/
frizz referring to an Irish window: windows are a chance to decorate bringing a little personality to the public …
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http://roobo69.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/weekly-photo-challenge-again-windows-in-madagascar/
I had to smile, discovering the tiger in the Madagascar window …
10
http://mikehardisty.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
frizz-comment to Mike Hardisty: I like this Victorian Beach Shelter which you’ve found on the sea-front at Weston-super-Mare, England; it must be wonderful to look to the ocean, but safe vs. stormy wind and raining dogs & cats …
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http://directionallyimpaired.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
frizz-comment: airports always have the largest windows: the best invitation to enter the sky without any fear…
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http://estirador.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
I like the Stadshuset window, Stockholm: that chandelier as a metaphor for mercantile life styles …
13
http://2011onthebench.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/5-november-2011-new-weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
I like the photo introducing the blogger “on the bench”, living in Ulmarra, her Girls came to visit and they ate at THE WIDE RIVER CAFÉ. Looking out the window…
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http://3rdculturechildren.com/2011/11/05/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
wonderful slide show as a tribute to the colorful windows of Brazil!
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http://graciesam.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
Divinity School from University of Oxford, built in 1427-83. Outside – and even inside (HARRY POTTER movie!) – breathtaking tradition …
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http://cardinalguzman.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/the-opera-house-in-oslo-weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
once my daughter, an architect, joined the competition to build this opera house, but she wasn’t ranked in the first five positions. So all the work was in vain …
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http://deadpoet1968.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
for all of us: the wide open window to the world: the Microsoft WINDOWS organized by Bill Gates – he is an Einstein …
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http://chittlechattle.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
the typical line of windows combined with a royal fence and a war Lord sculpture …
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http://gogreygirl.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
it’s a nice idea, to add a kid’s painting too!
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http://justsnaps.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
sometimes windows are very fast = running windows …
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http://mizzrainbow.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
I like her comment “HAPPY COUNTING” – something like counting sheep if you cannot fall asleep 🙂
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http://bagiaxitin.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
at least kings & queens (even in Bangkok) used to enjoy the luxury of large windows, saying a welcome to all the light shining in from heaven above …
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http://jullianeford.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
slide show: windows in Spain & Bulgaria
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http://cinova.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
it seems, in Hongkong an architect composed a house with a big big window for helicopters to fly through …
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http://justramblinpier.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/what-do-windows-do/
“…what windows are truly for?” – a very creative article, more than just another photo challenge!
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http://ljr3.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
If a pilot had no windows – if some pilots were suddenly blind …
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http://conspiracyofravens.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/weekly-photo-challenge-windows%e2%80%8f/
rocket to the sky with small windows by “conspiracy of ravens” …
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http://pancakeashes.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
about “the absence of windows…” (!)
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http://littlethingsoflife.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
“The eyes are windows to the soul.”
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http://passion2read.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
a winter window …
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http://runningnakedwithscissors.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
The windows of a car… = “high speed expectation”.
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http://oranjeflamingo.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/weekly-photo-challenge-windows-2/
me commenting Dutch windows there: The Netherlands are that country with the most beautiful windows of the world. Wasn’t there a tax rule supporting large windows? Or is it to invite an optimized quantity of light into the dark long Dutch rooms? Narrow, long houses need large windows on the opposite walls – the light can run through the whole room immediately without any curves. (Good for blizzards too – to walk in – and directly out again on the opposite window …)
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http://thirdhandart.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
school windows, university windows, printing factory windows …
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http://cocomino.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/weekly-photo-challenge-windows-have-meanings/
often a window deals with reflections …
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http://aartigarde.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
a chance for an outside Zebra to look into your private space …
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https://jakesprinters.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/dreamer/
aircraft windows …
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http://giulas41.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/weekly-photo-challenge-windows-3/
Window to a beach paradise in Brazil …
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http://zarabu.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/from-another-era/
I think this photo would fit the WINDOW topic too: one starts to compare the bow of the Volkswagen car windows with the bow of house windows. We also have a bow in our windows; our house was built 1904
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http://letmegrabmycamera.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/san-francisco-afternoon/
windows in San Francisco …
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http://experimentsinexperience.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/light-and-dark/
the strength of black and white church symmetry …
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http://i95ride.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
snow outside …
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http://connieemeraldeyes.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
in an empty room windows are like a treasure …
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http://byniki.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
Warsaw windows …
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http://situkangnyampah.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/weekly-photo-challenge-window/
Singapore windows …
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http://maggiephotgraphy.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
wooden houses in Canada, broken, full of history …
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http://worldofcassie.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
gallery of windows, my favorite: a yellow crane in Cologne …
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http://hurtlingtowards60.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/the-shoreham-beach-houseboats-weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
creative self made houseboats windows!
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http://spindelbilder.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/empty-house/
location for a horror movie …
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http://rachelmercado.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
Seattle skyscraper windows …
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http://didised.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
the sexiest version of this week’s photo topic …
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http://4otomo.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/#comment-569
Malmö, Sweden – and the Spanish architect Calatrava …
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http://eof737.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
friends are like windows – reflections by Elizabeth Obih-Frank
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http://picturesqueworld.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/weekly-photo-challenge-shadow-2/
colored windows as separated light filter
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http://maggiescamera.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
giant atrium window
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http://byniki.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/weekly-photo-challenge-windows-2/
mixed light mood
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http://implicado.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/zoo-in-the-city/
what a giraffe would ask us?
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http://photographicnovel.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
a cat with a philosopher’s attitude
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http://justalillost.com/2011/11/10/314365-weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
use a window like a chalkboard (typical winter games…)
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http://juliedawnfox.com/2011/11/10/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
one arm out – like some cabriolet drivers …
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http://4otomo.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/windows-on-berlin/
the Norman Foster architecture, Reichstag, Berlin, is a very creative solution to catch the light …
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