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Fascination with doors

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Doors A perennial favorite subject of many photographers is Doors.    They are portals to other worlds and other times. Consider the iron and wooden doors of    mausoleums which divide reality and mortality.    They keep the light of the world out and the dark of the underworld in.    Click to go to the Album Church doors, many intricately carved wood, are set in equally intricate chiseled stone facades. They harken to a day when sacred geometry dominated architecture.  Dwellings of all size and style have doors which exemplify the structure itself and the character of the builder. Grand iron gated entrances sit at one extreme while other simple wood panel doors provide minimal security, privacy and protection from the elements.  Even a simple ordinary door can stand out as having character and emotion when its paint is peeling or it is falling off its hinges.    Such scenes evoke times past when a family would have lived behind that panel. Or maybe a factory once hired hund