Let's see your best "framed" photos

[Yoyo]

Today I scrolled through my camino pictures (yet again!) and noticed I have taken several where windows, doorways, arches, tunnels etc. "frame" the view.
Have you taken similar shots you can share with us? If so, please let us know where you took them.
Mine are from Orisson, Cirauqui, Iratxe, O Cebreiro and Santiago.

 

[Chenahusky]

Rua do Vilar SDC 2017

 

[jungleboy]

A couple from the castle in Lisbon taken just last week:

 

[Deleted member 73526]

 

[Theatregal]

June 26, 2019. My last quiet morning in Santiago. Sheltering in the rain behind this couple who had just arrived.

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

Early May 2018 , A beautiful end to a few hard days. With coffee and cake from the Sisters.

 

[Madeleine Jacobs]

Today I scrolled through my camino pictures (yet again!) and noticed I have taken several where windows, doorways, arches, tunnels etc. "frame" the view.
Have you taken similar shots you can share with us? If so, please let us know where you took them.
Mine are from Orisson, Cirauqui, Iratxe, O Cebreiro and Santiago.

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The second is the way up to Lorca, I was at the end of my Latin, as they say in Dutch and lost the dear Italian couple on the way up into Lorca and the albergue. The first photo is a bonus for all who miss the Camino. Because what is more like the Camino than a guitarist playing under the shade of a three?

 

[Roland49]

Have fun:




BC
Roland

 

[trecile]

Through the stone walls in Valença.

 

[Theresa Brandon]

 

[Camino Chrissy]

All on the Norte.

 

[mspath]

Logrono, Iglesia de Santiago el Real
photo taken October 20, 2010




Above the main door of the majestic church dedicated to Saint James he is depicted as Santiago Matamoros, victorious in battle riding a great steed with heads of slain Moors beneath. In today's world such a symbolic sculpture is, of course, politically loaded.

 

[longwayhome]

Puente de la rabia, Zubiri,

 

[VNwalking]

So many beautiful frames!
Here are a few more:
Roncesvalles, CF, March 2015
San Andres Aposol, Villamayor de Monjardin, CF, March 2015
Portomarin, CF, April 2015
Tunel San Adrian, Camino Vasco Interior, May 2019
The foot from on high, Haro, C. Vasco Interior, May 2019
San Anton, CF, May 2019
Rio Miño, Belesar, Camino Invierno, June 2019

Ponte Taboada, Invierno June 2019

 

[Canada Wanders]

Would this count? Happy wine memories!

 

[mspath]

Saint Jean Pied de Port
I rue de France, arch

photo taken October 15, 2013




First glimpse into the historic town center where new adventures begin!

 

[Yoyo]

Rua do Vilar SDC 2017

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To infinity and beyond!

 

[Yoyo]

Thank you everyone for sharing your wonderful photos – what a treat!

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Thank you everyone for sharing your wonderful photos – what a treat!

Ditto, Yoyo! Thank you for thinking to start this interesting thread. Picture threads are always an uplift for me, especially this past year.

 

[tpmchugh]

2013. Obanos, between Viana and Logrono and the window of the beehive structure just before NáJERA

 

[Camino Chrissy]

That graffiti of the blue shell has always been my "favorite" (I normally am disgusted by most) and I look forward to seeing it on the Frances.

 

[mishlove]

Camino Portuguese

 

[frbobs]

From Frances 2014 and Portugues 2017, night time one is Santiago

 

[Theresa Brandon]

 

[Theatregal]

Las Medulas on the Invierno. June 2019

 

[Camino Chrissy]

The Norte.

 

[NamaMama]

Lires. Between Muxia and Finisterre. A lighthearted framed photo.

 

[mspath]

Saint Jean Pied de Port,
rue de La Citadelle

photo take October 14, 2014




Looking through the Port Saint Jacques towards rue de La Citadelle; nearest in view is # 55 the municipal albergue where multitudes of pilgrims have slept . ... From 2004 to 2015
I was always SO excited to return each year.

 

[dick bird]

Today I scrolled through my camino pictures (yet again!) and noticed I have taken several where windows, doorways, arches, tunnels etc. "frame" the view.
Have you taken similar shots you can share with us? If so, please let us know where you took them.
Mine are from Orisson, Cirauqui, Iratxe, O Cebreiro and Santiago.

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Salamanca, Plaza Mayor; Triple staircase, Santo Domingo, Santiago; Judería, Caceres; Alhambra, Granada.

 

[Lupo]

I don't know if this is my best "framed" picture, but this one I remembered immediately... Took this foto on an etapa close to Santiago.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I don't know if this is my best "framed" picture, but this one I remembered immediately... Took this foto on an etapa close to Santiago.

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Very unique!

 

[Manolitoway]

 

[Manolitoway]

Finisterre August 2020

 

[Anik2001]

In order: SJPP, Estella, Ponferrada castle, Santiago of course, Negreira (x2), and Maroñas, in 2017

 

[Theatregal]

In the Praza de Platerias, Santiago.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

This thread is so much fun! I may look for more of my own!

 

[JMac56]

My pack, framed by my sticks, at Cruz de Ferro - May 1, 2016.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Along the Via Podiensis.

 

[Theresa Brandon]

 

[Theatregal]

Cloister of the Sé do Porto

 

[Mycroft]

Porto, September 2019, at the Photography Museum, which was originally built as the prison (great place to visit, BTW)

 

[Mycroft]

A couple from the castle in Lisbon taken just last week:

I'm jealous!

 

[mspath]

Burgos
photo taken November 8, 2013



Alto Burgos
Looking up towards Iglesia San Esteban
from Calle Valentin Palestina
in the area of the Castello

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

Samos Monastery

 

[mspath]

towards Estella, path
photo taken October 24. 2014




West of the Ermita San Miguel a tunnel of greenery framed the camino on a misty October morning.

 

[mspath]

Saint Jean Pied de Port
rue de La Citadelle

photo taken October 15, 2012




Straight on towards new adventures!

 

[Theatregal]

Children, on their way to plant flowers in the cloister at the Monastery of Santa Maria de Oseira.

 

[mspath]

Villalcazar de Sirga
Iglesia de Santa María la Blanca, interior

photo taken November 6, 2011




Dimly lit pointed arches frame this view of the north aisle side chapel.

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

April 11th. 2019 , Santiago Cathedral

 

[mspath]

Carrion dos Condes
Real Monasterio Santa Clara,
hospederia,

photo taken November 14, 2012




Iron bars framed this window view of nearby monastery roofs taken within my cell-like private room in the Santa Clara hospederia.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

The monastery entrance at Armenteira on the Portuguese Espiritual Variant.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

This picture just showed up on the "media" section today. I don't know who took it, but thought you all might enjoy it as much as I did!

 

[mspath]

Las Médulas, gold mine interior
photo taken November 26, 2014



Continual curves plus added lights frame the visitor's path into an underground tunnel
of a Roman gold mine.

Although then trepidacious in retrospect I am glad I followed that path and took this shot as a permanent memento.

Las Médulas, is a unique area marked by distinctiveĺ red-orange channels, caves and giant cones. Near Ponferrada, off the CF but on the Invierno, this magnificent working gold mine dating from Roman times is a
UNESCO World Heritage Site

 

[Theatregal]

Under the Taboada Railway Bridge on the Sanabres. April 28, 2018

 

[dick bird]

In order: SJPP, Estella, Ponferrada castle, Santiago of course, Negreira (x2), and Maroñas, in 2017

Not the same cow, is it?

 

[mspath]

Valcarlos route
Arneguy, marker

photo taken October 15, 2014



At the Arneguy Venta complex on the old Spanish/French border this unidentified Spanish stelle depicting chevaliers/ caballeros frames a newer sign pointing towards the camino path to Valcarlos, Ibaneta, and Roncesvalles.

What is the history of this earlier Spanish stelle?

 

[dick bird]

Ah yes, the framed shot. We can't resist it can we? Here are a few. You can have fun trying to work out where they are.

 

[Kanga]

Goodness, don't we all love an excuse to cruise through our Camino photos?

I had to be quite strict with myself over the choices - no "naturally" framed photos (ie with leaves), no photos that concentrated on the frame itself, and no photos that I could not properly identify (I have old photos from before geotags which can be hard to place).


The House of Bejár, on the Via de la Plata


Mérida, Roman Amphitheatre, Via de la Plata


Grajal de Campos, on the Camino de Madrid


Aqueduct, Segovia, on the Camino de Madrid


Santilana del Mar, on the Norte


Boadilla del Camino, Camino Francés


La Romieu, Le Puy route in France


San Julián, on the way up to O Cebreiro, Camino Frances

 

[Anne&Pat]

Agreed Kanga!
Funicular de Artxanda, Bilbao, Camino del Norte, May,2018.

 

[Silus]

On the Portuguese October 2019, and Finisterre.

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

May 1st.2018 , Cathedral in Santiago.

 

[Theatregal]

A worker on scaffolding at the Monastery of Santa Maria de Oseira on the Sanabres. April 26, 2018

 

[mspath]

O Cebreiro
village

photo taken November 28, 2014




The last time I climbed up to the mystic/ mythic mountain hamlet of O Cebreiro the broad arch of the church porch framed my view and kept me dry.

In the mist and heavy rain outside was sepia; inside the church, Santa Maria la Real, as always, was calm and immaculate when I rested thankful to have arrived again.

Few pilgrims were about. I sensed the presence of past history while very aware of ever present rain plus my increasing hunger/exhaustion.

After a celebratory lunch I spent that cold November afternoon/night in the refurbished well-heated municipal albergue....Sheltered, warm, and relaxed I was happy just to be.

 

[Bill905]

No need to say where this was taken ...

 

[TrvlDad1]

Sort of defines my taste in "frames," I guess.

 

[Bill905]

Rue de l'Eglise, St. Jean Pied-de-Port

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Iglesia San Pedro in Estella.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Wayside shrine to St James at Albergue A Santiago Belorado.
Carrion de los Condes choir and organ of Santa Maria del Camino.
Entrance to Albergue Villares de Orbigo.
Looking back to Finisterre Harbour.

 

[Theatregal]

Old framed by the new(er) - seen from the wall of Lugo.

 

[SabsP]

Priest at Arco de Mazarelos. Santiago de Compostela.

 

[Yoyo]

O Cebriero
village

photo taken November 28, 2014

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The last time I climbed up to the mystic/ mythic mountain hamlet of O Cebreiro the broad arch of the church porch framed my view and kept me dry.

In the mist and heavy rain outside was sepia; inside the church, Santa Maria la Real, as always, was calm and immaculate when I rested thankful to have arrived again.

Few pilgrims were about. I sensed the presence of past history while very aware of ever present rain plus my increasing hunger/exhaustion.

After a celebratory lunch I spent that cold November afternoon/night in the refurbished well-heated municipal albergue....Sheltered, warm, and relaxed I was happy just to be.

That is the same view as one of my pictures in post #1 – but quite a different kind of beauty!
I love how you describe the way you felt in that moment. I have never walked a winter camino but I can imagine how important shelter and warmth must be after a day of hiking out in the cold and rain or snow.

 

[mspath]

That is the same view as one of my pictures in post #1 – but quite a different kind of beauty!
I love how you describe the way you felt in that moment. I have never walked a winter camino but I can imagine how important shelter and warmth must be after a day of hiking out in the cold and rain or snow.

Yoyo,
Thank you for setting up this great thread and for your kind comments.
Bad weather when walking can be very difficult, especially snow. Check out this recent account of a memorable March blizzard.
Carpe diem,
Margaret

 

[Bill905]

El Botafumeiro, framed by scaffolding during inspection, maintenance, and general interior Cathedral repairs, April 2019.

 

[mspath]

Puente La Reina
Convento del Crucifijio
open door

photo taken February 11, 2007



The open door of the Convento del Crucifijio
frames the view of the closed door of the Iglesia del Crucifijo across the Calle del Crucifijio

 

[mspath]

Castrojeriz
Traversia General Aranda, steps

photo taken November 11, 2013



Dark and light

In this Castrojeriz view a flight of discending dark and narrow steps near the Plaza Mayor frame a lower blaze of sunshine and distant landscape.

 

[OzAnnie]

Yoyo,
Thank you for setting up this great thread and for your kind comments.
Bad weather when walking can be very difficult, especially snow. Check out this recent account of a memorable March blizzard.
Carpe diem,
Margaret

Wow Margaret
Such an incredible experience in your book of memories. It would have been daunting though heading out into such deep snow drifts.
thanks for sharing these gems.

 

[Anne&Pat]

San Roque, with view of Cape Finisterre. June, 2018.
Muxia, a bottle of Albarino framed by our glasses, a great accompaniment to our final seafood dinner on the Camino Finisterre/Muxia, we later enjoyed a magnificent sunset from near our albergue, June, 2018.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

In Auvillar on the Le Puy route.

 

[mspath]

Nájera
Monastery Santa Maria Real, window

photo taken February 18, 2007




This window in the Monastery Santa Maria Real frames a view to the Alcazar
a ruined fortress/palace atop the famous red stone of Nájera, the "town between rocks".

 

[Theatregal]

Burgos. September 20, 2012

 

[mspath]

east of Melide
camino path

photo taken December 5, 2013





Tall dense branches frame this winter yet verdent view of the Camino Frances path west of O Coto/near Leboreiro leading towards Melide.

 

[Theatregal]

After Irache. We passed this women and her companions - a donkey and a dog. She was walking in the opposite direction and said she was going home.

 

[Bill905]

Abandoned bodega in Bercianos del Réal Camino - I got the impression that the bodega was pulling the grass around itself, like a shawl.

 

[Theatregal]

The Pergola do Foz on the sea front at Matosinhos, Portugal. July 30, 2015.

 

[SabsP]

Shadow.
Santiago de Compostela.

 

[mspath]

Burgos
Cathedral de Santa Maria

photo taken February 24, 2007



While following a self-guided tour through the Gothic riches/richness of the Burgos cathedral a barred window framed this view of the
two-story 13th c. cloister interior garden and fountain.

...The quiet simplicty of stone, grass and sky was a welcome aesthetic contrast to the lavish abundance displayed elsewhere within the interior.

 

[Theatregal]

March 22, 2017. On the way to Finisterre. An interior barn scene, framed in Bon Xesús.

 

[mspath]

Hornillos del Camino
photo taken February 26, 2007




Framed by the surrounding Meseta landscape in my view Hornillos del Camino appears perfect beneath a clear blue sky in bright sunshine.

However the air was bitter cold.

Luckily the door to the municipal albergue was unlocked; nothing else was open. No one was about; nor did any hospitelero appear.

One other pilgrim, a German fellow, arrived cold and hungry; he had great gear but carried no provisions. Of course, we shared my simple food. Soup, firm cheese, local sausage and for dessert, chocolate bars with hot tea, tasted like ambrosia in the unheated albergue.

... Today this photo frames a frigid February memory!

 

[mspath]

west of Ponferrada,
perhaps in Cacabellos or Pieros
door

photo taken March 14, 2007




An open half-door frames a peek into a hidden panelled interior.

For me this view is doubly intriguing; what is this unknown space and where is it located?

 

[Anne&Pat]

Roncesvalles framed by the forests. August, 2014.
The main altar in the Monasterio Santa Maria de la Real, Najera. September, 2014.
The Cathedral coop in Santa Domingo de la Calzada. September, 2014.
Canal de Castilla, framed by the lock walls. Fromista. September, 2014.

 

[mspath]

Leon
Calle Mariano Domínguez Berrueta

photo taken November 9, 2010



Somber facades on both sides of this calle frame a narrow vista of the nearby cathedral in early morning light.

 

[TrvlDad1]

And I have one friend with an accent who thinks this is a great photo (I don't necessarily agree but it is amazing what you may see when you look up from the Camino).

 

[Anne&Pat]

And I have one friend with an accent who thinks this is a great photo (I don't necessarily agree but it is amazing what you may see when you look up from the Camino).

Love it TrvlDad1!
That would be a Scottish accent, like mine (Anne)!

 

[Esperanza]

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

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Nice pictures, but can you tell where it is please.?

 

[Bill905]

One of my favorite framed shots ...

 

[Esperanza]

Nice pictures, but can you tell where it is please.?

The first is one of the town gates in SJPdP. The second is somewhere in Galicia, and the third is the ruined church in Viana.

 

[egar]

A couple, framed by nature, between Miraz and Sobrado dos Monxes on the del Norte

 

[Theatregal]

Friends meet again in Santiago, framed by the window of the wonderful cafe, A Gramola.

 

[mspath]

Estella
Calle San Nicolas
San Pedro de la Rúa

photos taken October 24, 2014

Claustro



A cloister arch frames the huge mass of rock against which this historic monastery/ church is located. Thus this looming view resembles a frightening image in a bad dream.

19 calle San Nicolas



Close to the cloister an elevator lifts all quickly up to the top of the rock; programmed to work 24/07 this is one example of contemporary urban transformation found throughout Estella