Prior to a short break for the holiday season, Norm has suggested that this week we look back over the past year and select some of our favourites. I’m quite happy to go along with that, so here are half a dozen blasts from the (recent) past, culminating in my personal Door of The Year.

Although you can digitally manipulate almost every aspect of an image these days, somehow you can’t alter the fundamental quality of the light in which the original image was captured. It couldn’t get much better than when I took this photograph of a superannuated refreshment room in Villandry.

Another example of ideal light is this image from Chabanais:

This gates/door combination from the neighbouring village of Nouic has no great age, but I do find the symmetry (and the colour) very attractive.

This door, to be found in  our local village, was posted comparatively recently, but as it received an above-average number of favourable comments, here’s another look.

Here’s my runner-up: with its faded panels and especially the faded lace curtains, it strikes me as archetypally French:

However, (fanfare) here is my Door Of The Year. This is from Cahors. Can you beat that for decrepitude? I’ll wait.

Thursday Doors 20 December 2018