Or, please mind your head!
I love stumbling across scenes like these. For me they are relics of a by-gone era and a reminder of how different life once was – more sedate, a little more refined but certainly less convenient than our modern comfortable existence.
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I love the old times to Martina! Great find and wonderful composition of this door with the green. Have a nice Sunday!
Great treatment in b&w. I like the composition, linking the attention at the door and placing the plate at the “Goldener Schnitt” (I don’t know the english word – and google translator isn’t very helpful).
Have a nice sunday, Martina.
Really nice B&W treatment on this image, Martina! I tend to go for a darker looking image, but your choice here looks perfect to me!
Not only a reminder of a more sedate and refined life but that bathing had long been considered a social experience … bath houses were a place to meet and discuss … a place where many of the social strictures of the outside world were removed like the clothes we wear.
That said, gorgeous photo as always Martina
lightness and sensitivity of this black and white is amazing, as well as your ability to grasp the subject of seemingly simple interest and turn it into a beautiful picture. Great management of light especially on the white door that creates the most contrast, congratulations!!
A wonderful find and capture. Very nice! I’d love to see beyond that door what the bath house consisted of.
Times change and what once was normal becomes rare. I can think of examples even in my own life — “phone booths” — they use to be everywhere but now I couldn’t even tell you where to find one. Who knows what will be lost in the next 50-100 years.
Where is this? Did you go in? Could you go in? What an interesting, and like you said, by-gone era! Favourite part is the way the vines are leaning towards the bath house.
Lovely.
Nice picture Martina!
Beautiful b&w!
Wonderfully composed image in monochrome.
nice shot – and a slower life sounds great…
What a great find Martina, thank you for sharing.
It’s not only a great reminder of times gone by, but you capture the scene alive as it was right in front of me. I really like the way to have highlighted the door and brought out some of that dreamy mood of place. It’s a great black and white photograph. Very simple, but still full of details. Beautifully captured and processed.
A charming image, Martina!
Aahh, I see where your next post came from! I’d like to see this in colour, but only to experience that mass of colour from the wisteria. Otherwise, I like the olde-worlde feel that the B+W brings.