Weathered Doorway in Santa Fe, NM: I was driving around Santa Fe yesterday and came across this weathered doorway that went into a private courtyard. It was on a narrow roadway with no...

rballard29 Loc: Albuquerque, NM

I was driving around Santa Fe yesterday and came across this weathered doorway that went into a private courtyard. It was on a narrow roadway with no place to park and get a good picture. I circled around the area and came back to try to get a quick picture from the car window. There is a lot of detail work in the wood around the door so if you're interested you can download the picture to see it better.

docrob Loc: Durango, Colorado

rballard29 wrote:

I was driving around Santa Fe yesterday and came across this weathered doorway that went into a private courtyard. It was on a narrow roadway with no place to park and get a good picture. I circled around the area and came back to try to get a quick picture from the car window. There is a lot of detail work in the wood around the door so if you're interested you can download the picture to see it better.

and if you can go have lunch at Tomasita's - go for the red chili!

Bmac Loc: Long Island, NY

rballard29 wrote:

I was driving around Santa Fe yesterday and came across this weathered doorway that went into a private courtyard. It was on a narrow roadway with no place to park and get a good picture. I circled around the area and came back to try to get a quick picture from the car window. There is a lot of detail work in the wood around the door so if you're interested you can download the picture to see it better.

Great door and you were right about that detail. 8-)

14kphotog Loc: Marietta, Ohio

Sure would liked to have seen it in it's day. WOW!

Nikocarol Loc: NM & FL

I really like how it looks somewhat miniature...since the focus in the back causes me to see this that way..A fantastic door indeed.

frankeieio Loc: Bend, Oregon

At first, I thought the door was misquoted as such and was actually 3 foot high, or so, gate... Which leads to want to come up with some constructive criticism about including some sort of relative object that would help with establishing scale in an image like this... that is, if it were your intent to compose an artistic image here. Once I got it that it was a door, I can see where the thing it self is what got you to stop and shoot, and of course there is nothing wrong with just doing that!

rballard29 wrote:

I was driving around Santa Fe yesterday and came across this weathered doorway that went into a private courtyard. It was on a narrow roadway with no place to park and get a good picture. I circled around the area and came back to try to get a quick picture from the car window. There is a lot of detail work in the wood around the door so if you're interested you can download the picture to see it better.

MissStephie Loc: West Virginia

I was thinking the same thing Nikocarol - looks as if it was a miniature ;) nice detail.

Nikocarol Loc: NM & FL

MissStephie wrote:

I was thinking the same thing Nikocarol - looks as if it was a miniature ;) nice detail.

Yes, I know exactly this door since living here in Santa Fe and by no means miniature...interesting how that BLUR is why it feels that way...I'd like to see it cropped without that part..whole different image. Interesting this photography ;o)

rballard29 Loc: Albuquerque, NM

Nikocarol, here is the image cropped so the top part is not visible. Since this street has quite a bit a traffic on it, when I came back around it I had the camera ready and stopped in traffic to take the picture. Drivers behind me were probably not pleased but were patient enough since I only took a couple of seconds. I will go back again some day and take the same picture when I am walking in the area and can include a person in the photo for perspective so it doesn't appear to be a minature.

Cropped picture

Nikocarol Loc: NM & FL

rballard29 wrote:

Nikocarol, here is the image cropped so the top pa... (show quote)

I think it is a fine image...even from the car...as I remember Ansel Adams loved to shoot from his car and most images made that way....anyway...I love this shot...Santa Feans are use to people shooting this way too. I was really commenting on how the "blur" of the backround caused the illusion of being miniature...I think it was so interesting...perception subject for sure.
I downloaded your image and straightened it since the crop was ever so slight but I am anal when it is out of line...forgive me.
Bravo, well done!

Lucian Loc: From Wales, living in Ohio

Yep the cropped version is better, the fake blurring just was too distracting because some things were blurred and other parts that should also have been blurred were still sharp.

the_imaginist Loc: St. Louis, MO

After being able to look at the download version it almost looks like a transplant, like it was moved to this location.

I agree with 14kphotog, would have been neat to see when it was newer. Thanks for sharing.