Here are 3 of the many doors that caught my eye while walking around Beijing during my all-too-brief visit there last May. While there were plenty of doors that were freshly painted and well-maintained, I found that the weathered paint of these interested me more.
This week’s friday foto finder challenge was to find a photo of a door. Once again, my biggest challenge was choosing from among my options! To see what other doors have been found this week, please pay a visit to the friday foto finder blog!
Also, if you (like me) find that run-down and weathered things make for interesting photos, please check out my friend Magpie‘s Decay and Desuetude blog.
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What type camera did you use?
Beautiful!
Hi, Sullimaybe–
Thanks for the compliment. As for my camera, it is an Olympus Pen E-P1 from 2009. For these photos, I used a 20 mm fixed length Lumix lens. (My <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake_lens"pancake lens.) My camera (especially with this little lens on) is nicely compact. It’s a bit bigger than a typical point-and-shoot, but much smaller than a DSLR.
Yes. These are perfect for Maggie’s blog.
What is it about peeling paint, especially on doors and windows? I often wonder if it’s a sign of my age that I find such things beautiful, comforting, noteworthy. I think they are symbols to me of an imperfect life, well lived and well loved.
I feel like the Pied Piper of decay. :)
Very nice. I love old doors too.
Those are lovely!
Very impressive doors. I wonder how many people have gone in and out of them over the years. (Sorry I’m late on this)