I’ve taken many photographs of this old, weathered door on a similarly decaying old building on Main Street in Ossining, NY. I don’t know how the house manages to survive, nor do I fully understand what fascinates me so much about the door. Although I’ve taken a lot of pictures of it, I’ve never been quite happy with them. I think I like this one the most, at least for now.

Taken with a Sony RX100 VII

This caught my eye because it seemed more like something I would have seen when I was living in France, than something I came across while walking down Main Street in Ossining, NY. Of the course the sign in English is something of a giveaway.

Taken with a Sony RX100 VII

These details are on the exterior of the Ossining Bank for Savings. For more on this building see my earlier post here.

Taken with a Sony RX100 VII

I’ve often read that most people take photographs from eye level and that this contributes to all photographs looking the same. The solution to this: take pictures from above; from below; look down; look up. This change in perspective adds variety to your photographs. In my case I do take pictures from above (when I can get high enough to make this possible). I often get down low e.g. to take pictures of small children, animals, flowers etc. I often look down, but I rarely look up. How else would I explain how, walking down Main Street, Ossining virtually every week I’ve never seen these interesting pediments (if that’s what they’re called) on the top of a number of the late Victorian buildings that line Main Street.

Taken with a Sony RX100 VII