Readers spent two weeks looking for a window of opportunity to find a photograph for the Readers Photo Challenge: windows.
Windows can be great compositional elements in your photographs and some can be interesting subject in and unto themselves. Six people sent in 36 photos. Here are the top picks.
Bret Parker of Stockton used a window at his home to frame an apricot tree in his backyard. He removed the window screen and opened the windows shutter blinds to give a better view of the tree.
With a Google Pixel 6 smartphone Parker photographed the window which perfectly framed the tree. The slats of the open blinds on the right and the closed ones on the left provide leading lines to help the viewers’ eyes to the main subject. The rigid straight lines of the blinds and the frame of the window provide a hard contrast to the free form of the tree and the backyard vegetation.
Cynthia Barker’s photo answers the question “how much is that doggie in the window?” While visiting her sister-in-law’s home in the Mother Lode town of Murphys, she saw her niece’s dog Charlie peeking through a gap in the curtains of a window.
With her Apple iPhone 14, she captured the white dog surrounded by the window’s white curtains. The dog’s cute face is surrounded by a triangle of the darkened room within. How much is that image? It’s priceless.
Joan Erreca of Stockton entered a photo that’s an image of intricate angles and shapes. With an Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max she captured the unique architecture of the Central United Methodist Church in Stockton.
She photographed from inside of the church through the large arched window of its entry. The window is divided up into rectangular panes which are silhouetted in the photo. That rigidity with it’s 90-degree angles makes a bold visual statement and contrasts against the arched concrete ribbing of the building’s structural supports. Added to that are the zigzagging of support beams tying each support to each other to add to the complex geometry of the image.
For first place, Parker gets a 16x 20 print made by UlmerPhoto and a $25 card gift to a local restaurant. Barker receives an 11x 14 print for second and third place and an 8×10 print goes to Erreca. All of the entries can be seen in an online photo gallery at recordnet.com. A new challenge assignment will be issued on June 16.
This article originally appeared on The Record: See the winning photos from our window challenge
Reporting by Clifford Oto, The Stockton Record / The Record
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By Clifford Oto, The Stockton Record | USA TODAY Network
