Details, Details, and More Details.

[MrNewportCustom]

This thread is for Loungers who love photographing (and viewing photos of) vintage architechture. But, there's a small twist: This thread is for photographs of only certain details of vintage buildings. Not the entire building.

Get in close, zoom in or crop in, to beautiful, unique, decorative and/or functional vintage details and show them here.

I'll start with what is apparently a light tower. FedoraGent noticed it on a building in Pasadena, CA., and asked me to zoom in on it. We were across the street and behind a one-story building at the time.
(Please ignore the satellite dish, as it's not vintage and I had no idea it was there at the time I took this shot.)

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FedoraGent took this image through my windshield. I cropped in for a closer look at the crown on the top of the dome.

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I shot this frieze through the open passenger window while at a stop light.

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Show us your details, details, and more details. The closer you get to them, the better. Have fun.


Lee

 

[ClaraB]

Great Thread!

Here is one:

This is an abandoned office building in town, the padlocked door always catches my eye as well as the fine details around the handles.

 

[MrNewportCustom]

And ClaraB sets the bar high right at the start with a fantastic picture. Exactly the kind of image I was looking for! :eusa_clap

Now show us your favorite details, folks!


Lee

 

[Dexter'sDame]

Fabulous thread!

Fabulous thread, and fab photos thus far!!! :eusa_clap More please! (I'd contribute, but detail of my thumb is probably not what you had in mind...)

And Mr.NewportCustom, the photography on your website is just terrif!

 

[HadleyH]

This thread is for Loungers who love photographing (and viewing photos of) vintage architechture. But, there's a small twist: This thread is for photographs of only certain details of vintage buildings. Not the entire building.

I am not a photographer myself ,but i do love viewing photos of old buildings, and i had to post these images of my favorite photographer in this field Eugene Atget(1856-1927)..."His work,now in public collections in France, London and New York is an amazing record of a past era...of vieux Paris."


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detail of staircase 1911

 

[Lucky Strike]

Sandstone wall near the Museumsinsel in Berlin, still pockmarked from 1945 bullets:

 

[Lucky Strike]

From the new opera house in Oslo:

 

[Lucky Strike]

I like this keyhole window:

 

[Lucky Strike]

A sculptor's museum in Oslo:

 

[Lucky Strike]

From some French villages:

A stables courtyard in Devon:

One of the travertine giant pillars in the colonnade of St. Peter's:

Interior from St. Peter's:

From Mussolini's EUR, outside Rome:

 

[ClaraB]

I am so glad this thread is getting the attention it deserves. I love that St. Peter's interior shot, great light.

Here is a very, very vintage detail from Christ Church in Oxford, England. Would have been a better shot had I the patience to set my camera properly :eusa_doh:. Despite the over exposure you can still make out the delicate flowers and faces carved into the stone.

 

[Audrey Horne]

Gorgeous shots so far everyone! I absolutely love taking pictures of details. These are all from my walking tour of LA.

 

[HadleyH]

I don't know who took this photo, but I find it so beautiful... almost like a Greek Temple surrounded by modern life!

Chicago Architectural Detail with Sears Tower in Background

 

[MrNewportCustom]

Beautiful shots, everyone!

Audrey, I missed the LA walk. Will there be abnother one soon? For some reason I'm particularly drawn to your last photo, the one of the grill. Maybe it's because I'm a nut for yellow metals, specifically brass and bronze. All of them are great!

ClaraB, I'd say your image is quite well exposed. All it needs is a touch more contrast, if anything. Beautiful shot. :eusa_clap

 

[Lexybeast]

From a tomb in Bijapur, India: