The view from the window
The view from the window: Moselle meets Rhine
The Moselle River (darker water) flows into the Rhine River (beige-coloured water) at Koblenz.
I took one look at Nancy’s photo for this week’s Unexpected Windows challenge and knew I had to post this photo. Nancy’s photo and mine are of the same thing — they both feature the confluence of the two rivers and the triangular-ish Deutsches Eck (“German Corner”) headland — but are taken from different places in Koblenz. My photo (dreadful quality, sorry, it’s a scan of a mediocre print from 1991) is from a window in the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress on the east bank of the Rhine, which is on top of the green hill you can see on the right in Nancy’s photo.
The coveted Bondi Beach view — if you don’t have it, fake it!
The “view” from my bathroom. The sun always shines, and it’s always summer on Bondi Beach.
I live in an apartment building on Campbell Parade, the street that curves along Sydney’s famous Bondi Beach. Any dwelling along the road that has a beach view is prime property indeed! I, however, live at the back of my building — much quieter, and with sweeping “district views”. One wall in my bathroom does face the beach, though it does not have a window (just as well, really, because on the other side of that wall is the foyer/lobby area for my floor!).
So I gave myself a view. I took a photo of the beach, slipped it behind a graphic of a window frame (complete with pot plant on the window ledge) and had it printed as a large poster. Then I put it on the wall, and for the finishing touch added real curtains.
Hey presto! I too now have the coveted Bondi Beach view.
(btw, the peach-painted wall is the landlord’s idea, not mine!)
The view from the window: Sydney Opera House from Queen Mary 2
Sydney Opera House from the Commodore’s Club, Queen Mary 2
My QM2 cruise didn’t leave Sydney until midnight, giving me the chance to take this photo of the opera house from a window-side table in the Commodore’s Club. The reflections of the club’s ceiling lighting add an interesting touch.
The view from the window: The Grand Canyon Railway
Looking forward from the dome car.
Not the usual view of a train! How often does one get to see the top of the carriages? The feature photo is looking up through a ceiling window in the dome car.
The view from the window: A hotel in Rome
The balcony beckons …
I know what you’re thinking. This series is called “The view from the window”, so why did I caption this photo “The balcony beckons”? Well, outside the window was a lovely wide planted terrace, and it was no more than the work of a moment to lift a chair out that window and climb out after it myself, there to sit in comfort with a glass of wine and admire the view.
The view from the window: Shutters
Tropical garden through the shutters
Enticing glimpses of a tropical garden are visible through these shutters in Vanuatu.
The view from the window: Lace curtains
Oak Alley Plantation, Louisiana
This lace-curtained window looks onto the hedges and columns of the formal entry to Oak Alley Plantation, Louisiana. I can just imagine a woman pushing aside this curtain to peer outside and see who is coming up the very long, oak-tree-lined drive.
The view from the window: Cairns
Sun, reflections, mist, hills — what more do you need?
This was taken early morning in April in Cairns a couple of years ago. I love the drama of this shot: the mist hanging in the hollows among the hills of the Great Dividing Range, the sun backlighting the clouds, and the reflections in those shiny metal louvres.
The view from the window: Sydney Harbour
Sydney harbour and the opera house, from the Shangri-La hotel.
This is a selfie of me gazing out the window from a room in the Shangri-La hotel.
