Look out of that window. Who wants to go out unless they have to? Instead, I’m inside and cosy, seeing if I can find photos that fit Jude’s 2020 Photo Challenge for February, Patterns.
I decided to go with the built environment. I looked not for deliberately created architectural motifs, or applied ornamentation, but for reflections, distortion, or for other elements that weren’t intended as the main event. Except in one case, where reflection and baffling the eye was definitely the main story. Which one was that do you think?
Sightseeing in Granada by looking at, rather than through a window.
The new entrance to the V&A, London.
Glimpses of El Escorial, Seville, from the balustrades by its water features.
Garden at the Gasholder development, Kings Cross, London.
Reflections at Canary Wharf, London.
Office windows in Brussels, Belgium.
This challenge was provided by Jude, of Travel Words.
From Pyrenees to Pennines 
That King’s Cross one is very clever. I must go and see it for myself.
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It’s good, isn’t it? It’s quite near the school, if I remember rightly.
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It’s really quite an effective development
Here are a couple of my images: https://suejudd.com/2019/08/20/street-67/
https://suejudd.com/2019/08/26/patterns-3/
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Nice! It’s quite a photogenic place, isn’t it?
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Yes, I think so!
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Great gallery!
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Thank you!
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These are all excellent photos and patterns. I’m guessing the Gasholder garden is deliberate. Kings Cross has changed considerably since the days when I used to travel down to London from Yorkshire!
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Hasn’t it just? I still travel regularly on that route, and always enjoy a stroll round there if I have a little time to kill. Yes, the garden is deliberately playful, I think.
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I haven’t been to the area since 1979! But from the photos that Debbie and Sue post I can see how interesting it looks now.
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It’s become a destination in its own right now. Though not one most of us could afford to live in.
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I don’t know how anyone can afford to live in London.
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Lest of all there.
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Some great reflection patterns, Margaret!
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Thank you!
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You’re welcome!
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I’m guessing the King’s Cross shot depicts the intentionally baffling design. But all these photos are brilliant, Margaret.
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You’re right – and thank you. Kings Cross won’t be your London station, will it?
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I especially like the one in Granada!
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I do like good wiggly reflections too!
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Remarkable images, Margret! The reflections of the garden is so special and beautifully captured.
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It’s a public space that invites reflection and slowing down. A great thing in a busy city like London.
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My favourites are peeping through the banisters on the Plaza de Espana and the Gasholders garden 🙂 🙂
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My favourites depend upon the mood I’m in. But the Gasholder one is always there.
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I love the patterns that buildings make on the next-door windows Margaret, and yours are excellent. A terrific way to address the challenge
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Thanks! It was fun choosing.
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All these photos are intriguing and engaging – I like them all and how clean lines and wiggly bits play off each other.
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I thought we all needed a few wiggly bits in a week of dreadful weather.
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Yes indeed 🙂 So sorry that Storm Dennis has turned out to be so bad. Hope you are able to stay home and dry and there is not yet another storm (literal or figurative) on the horizon.
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We have little to complain about here, apart from fields that are large lakes. It’s much worse elsewhere, sadly.
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Yes very tough for many, unfortunately.
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The patterns, reflections, and play of light on the buildings is beautiful.
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Thank you!
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What a fantastic gallery of reflections and patterns, Margaret!
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Thank you. Choosing them was a cheery way of ignoring the weather outside.
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A great selection. It’s interesting that so many of those ‘very glass buildings’ are made so much more tolerable by the reflections they offer. Encouraging to see baffling offered from the Gasholder architects too.
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Yes, reflections humanise them somehow. And that Gasholder garden is a lovely space
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A great selection of pictures. I liked the V&A one best.
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It’s a lovely entrance area now. I really like it in its own right on a nice day.
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