Window Project 2010

Valentina _ Self portrait _ Verona _ Italy

This is my window to you all.

Window Project 2010 was a very important project for me.
I have given your worldview, your private moments, your stories about your life and where you live.
I hope for you it was a wonderful experience as it did for me.
Thank you for participating in this big ‘collage’.
I thank you for your wonderful gift.

Thank you to all my readers and my photographers. You’re great!

And now I have to thank some people in particular who gave me the strength to go ahead and give up.
Thanks to:
> My parents and my family
> Pietro Firrincieli
> My best friends
> For technical support Francesco Frapporti and Gianmaria Caprini
> Journalists and bloggers who have written and told of the project: Francesco Verni, Andrea Pontara,  Emanuela Costantini, Eliseo Barbàra, Adele Sarno, Samuel Rosante, inkiostrando.blogspot.com, Daniele Veneri, Jack Magazine, Alexander Ipfelkofer, Angela Carpentieri, mammamiao, Kristina Alexanderson, lanamaniac.posterous.com, j-delight.com, Umberto Stefanelli, fleetinglight.wordpress.com, willemvandenhoed.nl… and I apologize to all those I forgot!

Thanks again and….HAPPY NEW YEAR!

*** UPDATE*** let’s check www.cct-seecity.com/2011/01/one-world-through-365-windows !

Maurizio Marcato - Photographer and Artist - Ljusdal - Sweden

Touching the water from a stream you touch the last water and the first that comes… I read this sentence somewhere, but it’s a great sense of life and the living of each day that you find in this picture from my window… the dawn of my winter garden. Happy New Year!

www.mauriziomarcato.com

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This pic is very important for me, is the last pic of the Window Project 2010.
The blog started with a picture of this house. Exactly one year ago. For this reason, it is the only photo that can close this long year of stories, pictures and pieces of life.
The author is the photographer and artist Maurizio Marcato, the first photo (January 1, 2010) was taken from his wife Elisabetta de Strobel.

Lynn Friedman - Works at San Francisco Open Studios - Lower Haight, San Francisco - USA

The colorful laundry line is from my next door neighbor.  I take photos every time he puts out the wash because they are so thoughtfully displayed.  One line will be only whites.  Another line will be rainbow hues. Then there is the primary color collection.  So much fun!

Ann Fogarty - newly retired and live in rural Illinois - USA

Just a few days before this photo was taken, I had this glass door installed in my home where there had been smaller windows. The deer come into my yard during snowy winter days looking for food (normally they stay in the wooded areas that surround our small community.) As I saw the young fawn approaching I noticed my cat, Cinnamon, looking out. As the fawn got closer, the two noticed each other and their eyes locked. The stare only lasted a few seconds but I was lucky enough to capture the moment. They both went about their business…… Cinnamon grooming herself and the fawn proceeded to eat lunch.
I just love the wildlife that comes into my back yard.

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Luca Carpino - Psychiatric educator - Pavia - Italy

What remains of Christmas and its thousands of lights…

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Alexander Ipfelkofer - Photographer - Paris, France

This is my every day view. I see people come and go from my desk across the atrium. That day I had my camera with me and it was just around lunch time when people started to leave.
I had taken a few shots before without any people in it just testing out composition and checking how much reflection I get from different angles. The snowflakes were a bonus, of course.
Something was missing though and then I noticed the square frames and everything just fell into place at once. The woman was leaving and I was taking two pictures, one with her in both squares, facing the camera and one where she was already further down, framing her in one square, not facing the camera and I knew this was the one. She was leaving …
The processing was done in Lightroom to achieve a pinhole black and white look.
Happy new year!

Best,
Alexander

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Tim Robison - freelance designer and photographer - Greensboro, North Carolina - USA

The photo was taken at my parents house over the holiday. It was Christmas morning and we woke up to a winter wonderland. The window it self is one of my favorite windows. It is always over grown with bushes and plants, and the light that comes through its perfect. I like to take photos from this window whenever I am visiting.

www.timrobisoncreative.com

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Alexander Serov - Student - Koltushi - Russia

Garland

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Seth Restaino - Photographer - San Francisco - CA - USA

The photo of the siphon pot was taken at my San Francisco apartment’s kitchen window in the wintertime (thus, the window is closed).
My father gifted me the siphon pot. When all the stars align, it makes a rich, smooth cup of coffee (or two, since Cindy and I like to share a morning cup). However, it takes a good amount off care and attention, not to mention trial and error, to produce a good result. The good result, of course, is downright heavenly.

Seth Restaino – SF Photographer – www.sethrestaino.com
Cindy Loughridge Photography – www.cindyloughridgephotography.com