Happy Sunday! Sofia from Photographia is the host of this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge. The topic for this week’s challenge is part of a series where a past topic is revisiting. This week, we are re-visiting Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #20 – Doors.
My first door or set of doors takes us to the UK along the Thames, near Greenwich. Scouring photos for this particular topic was a challenge because being into landscape photography, I rarely pay attention to doors. It took an entire afternoon of scouring through my Lightroom library to locate this particular photo, which contains a couple of doors.
I took this photo on my trip to the UK over 2 years ago. I was on a boat cruise from London to Greenwich and this was near Greenwich. Do people in the UK call these duplexes or do they refer to all residential buildings as flats?
You probably can’t tell from the way I’ve cropped the photo but these are right next to the river. These people can just go out the front door, cross the street, and voila, there’s the river. I remember thinking to myself, “I want to live this close to a body of water one day.”
My second set of doors is not a door but arches. Doors are a means of entering and exiting a place, why can’t arches act the same way?
This is the entrance to Liberty Square in Taipei and I think it’s majestic. What do you think?
My final set of doors is actual doors. It might be one of the only photos in my archive that is an actual door. Behind these doors are wreck rooms – places where we go to wreck things and to get our unexpressed angers out of our system.
I did this with my co-workers a few months ago and honestly thought I would enjoy letting my anger out of my system but, in a surprising twist, I didn’t have as fun as I thought I would. Everything was too heavy for me to lift and hit. I even got hit when I threw something plastic against the wall and it bounced back and hit me with full force.
I ended up sitting at the table outside, doodling and scribbling on the table, making my mark just as other participants did with these doors.
It maybe more productive for me to release my anger with kickboxing then spending an hour destroying old plastic appliances.
This is Another Story 
There’s an actual place to go and wreck things?
How much is considered enough wrecking? A toaster for instance. When is it too wrecked to be used by a wrecker? I am a bit shocked to hear such a place exists.
Perhaps you are not angry. Perhaps you have another feeling that needs expression. Think on this. Anger comes easily when it’s present and given an invitation in a safe environment.
Interesting post.
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Haha, yeah, I was probably just as surprised as you when I learned of such place. Oh, there are lots of things like keyboard, old computers, calculators, etc. LOL, I felt like we were helping recycling the material by breaking these things down.
I agree, I don’t think it’s anger that I was bottling up. I discovered after the fact that I was sad, depressed that no one in my immediate vicinity cared or knew me. I later wrote a post about it. Perhaps there was some anger mixed in there and maybe it was fully expressed in that room, which left me with feeling just sadness.
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Yinglin, I’m glad you went through your archives to find these doors. I enjoyed the post.
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Thank you.
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Interesting doors…..especially the last wrecking one
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Thank you.
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I must admit Yinglan that I smiled at your story behind the final image. I can only imagine how annoying that must have been LOL. But at least you got an excellent image out of it! Thanks as always for joining us this week.
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Thank you. 😀 I think my coworkers had more fun than I did, maybe they are the ones full of rage. 😀
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Great post, Yinglan! The last one was surely unexpected and I like the concept too. We only have the option of a good rant at work 🙂 Regarding the top one, I think they’re townhouses, but I might be wrong.
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Thank you. Haha, it was the first time I heard of it, too. A good rant at work works well, too, depends on the person you’re talking to, I guess.
I think townhouses is a good general term of what they are.
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I’m glad you took the time to find these images in your archive. Great set!
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Thank you. 🙂
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