Window(s)

OK--I've added a plural. These are the windows on the side of our little house, edged with an unusual fringe of icicles.

Sherwood Industries

This old factory building is being renovated into classy condos. Fortunately, the developers are taking great care to retain the best features of the older building. The windows are being replaces, but the brick, arches, the sills and the lettering wil remain. The photo was taken with the Hipstamatic app. No further processing was done.

The stained glass windows at the Kensington Methodist Church were lit tonight by both Christmas and Taize candles. I decided this might be an appropriate time to play around with the Stained Glass filter. I used the Difference blend mode, then selected all the white dividing lines generated by the filter and filled them with black to create windows with essentially the same design, but a more abstract character.

We needed to buy our daughter a new bed, so we went to IKEA in New Haven. Right across from that mega-store is a very funky office building that is reflected in IKEA's mirror windows. Accented Edges did just that, making the image a tad more crisp.

An old factory building in our neighborhood is being renovated and turned into classy condos. Several of the auxilliary buildings are being demolished. This one, which was the Sherri-Cup factory (and the one that gave Paper Goods Pond its name) is one of the ones which is going to be torn down. My eye was drawn to this row of windows. Posterize gives it a silk screen look.

The windows of this medical office building in Hartford produced a distorted version of today's unsettled sky. The Cutout filter made it into an abstact.

This is the infamous concrete office building in which I work. It's the only office building in an industrial wasteland bordered by highways and railroad tracks. It's not bad if you work by one of the windows, as I did for several years before the consultants were moved to the lightless, airless, soulless heart of the building. Still, this challenge is teaching me to open my eyes, and the exterior does have a certain classic geometric elegance. A combination of Posterize and Colored Pencil reduces it to its elemental planes.