Windows @ work – Abrie dink hardop
10 Okt 2018 2 Nov 2018 • Abrie Joubert
This week Leya of the esteemed Lens-Artist quartet is allowing us mere mortals a window of opportunity to be peers and peer through each others’ windows.
About 27 years ago while taking a suburban train into Cape Town, I had a short lived conversation with somebody sitting across me. He was holding a thick manual and told me he has to study. For a moment I ignored his conversation ending remark and asked him what he is studying. He said windows and stared intently at the book. As I eventually got the message, I decided to study the train windows (2 of us can play this game…). But my concept of studying windows bothered me. I was thinking building industry and wondered what exactly he is studying about it. Is it to to install different types of windows in different buildings? No, I was wise enough not to ask him… While he studied the inside of his manual I studied the cover and the word Microsoft was quite prominently displayed.
If you are viewing this via a PC, chances are the operating system is Windows, as in the corporate world it is indeed installed in many buildings. Use Windows or your fruit (Tina) and go and look at Leya’s soulful and beautiful windows.
I stare at the windows on computer screens daily but often the real window beside me offer better views. These are a few views through my window and other windows @ work.
Is it at this end?
Or is the pot of gold at this end?
As the company I work for is in the Financial Services industry, it is good to see that we are at least in the vicinity of a pot of gold.
There are times when my work as viewed via the Windows product set, is frustrating and I would prefer that the object of my work is real windows (as I would imagine I’m climbing the great peaks of the world).
The 3 photos above was taken with my Sony mobile. I was fortunate to have my camera at work when these doves decided to become love birds
I was asked to photograph the 67 minutes for Mandela activities at our work. Prepared food was donated to a school, hence the presence of my camera regarding the doves. The windows provided enough light so that no humans were injured in the process. The light also reflected effectively from the ivory. Apologies, these ladies are not elephants – it captivatingly reflected off the part of their bodies made of enamel.
a window to mathematics
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43 thoughts on “Windows @ work”
10 Okt 2018 om 4:46 nm
I like your captures very much!
11 Okt 2018 om 9:07 nm
Thank you Tatiana I appreciate your remark
10 Okt 2018 om 5:48 nm
Wow, the rainbow captures! Good to have your camera by your office window. What a view through the window! Thank you for sharing stories. 🙂 🙂
11 Okt 2018 om 9:08 nm
On the Rainbow day it was indeed quite a view. Thanks Amy
10 Okt 2018 om 5:56 nm
Pragtrige blog soos gewoonlik! Ek hou veral van die duiwe.
11 Okt 2018 om 9:09 nm
Dankie Perdebytjie maar ek droom on ‘n perdeby daar af te neem!!
11 Okt 2018 om 9:50 nm
10 Okt 2018 om 6:55 nm
Kantoor met n view, wat n blessing. mooi fotos!!
11 Okt 2018 om 9:11 nm
Oopplan kantoor area met ‘n view, sou meer korrek wees. Dankie Bondels
10 Okt 2018 om 9:02 nm
Lovely rainbows from your window…and what things you can capture if you bring your camera to your job place…Happy girls everywhere and loving doves? I love the window cleaner as well!
11 Okt 2018 om 9:15 nm
But Leya the girls do not have a choice in smiling – they are looking at me!! Only a joke. Some enjoyable moments @ work indeed, thanks
11 Okt 2018 om 9:20 nm
10 Okt 2018 om 9:15 nm
😊 always a jot Abrie. Live the love birds (or maybe it was a fight!!!). Thanks for making me famous 😇
11 Okt 2018 om 9:23 nm
Tina thanks for the cryptic clue which offered me the opportunity to interpret. I assume jot is lot and that it means you smile a lot when reading my posts. The birds certainly weren’t fighting. There was a bit of ethical interplay between the left and right side of my brain asking if it is proper of me to capture their special moments, but they seemed not to mind.
Tina Schell, published author extraordinaire do not need me to make her famous. It is a selfish attempt to be associated with her!!
12 Okt 2018 om 1:55 nm
LOL, must read my comments before hitting the reply button! Glad I gave you a cryptic challenge tho Abrie!
10 Okt 2018 om 9:22 nm
Dit is nou iets om oor te dink. Wat sien jy? Iets wat ons onself greeld moet afvra.
11 Okt 2018 om 9:34 nm
Hello Sonel, goed om jou hier te sien – ek onderneem dat jy my ook by jou sal sien. Eh het Tina in die kommentaar hierbo bedank vir die kriptiese leidraad (na aanleiding van tikfoute) wat sy gelaat het wat dan ek ek interpreteer. Ek is egter bevrees dat ek sukkel om jou opmerking te interpreteer. Hierdie is natuurlik ‘n tragiese opmerking wat moontlik my oppervlakkigheid uitwys en my skrywe daarmee saam veroppervlakkig (as daar so woord is). Maar help my asb, wat sien jy wat jou die opmerking laat maak? Of verwys jy daarna dat ek dinge raaksien bo en behalwe die gewone of dt dalk (soos ek al gemaak het) dat die regte kommentaar by die verkeerde blog beland het 🙂 Lekker dag (daardie groet het in die verkeerde tyd van die dag beland).
16 Okt 2018 om 9:11 nm
Hallo daar! Jammer ek antwoord jou nou eers. 🙂
Ek het bedoel dat wanneer ons deur die vensters van ons oë na die lewe kyk moet ons onself gereeld vra: “Wat sien jy?” M.a.w. Na watter kant van die lewe kyk jy? Die positief of die negatief.
Dit is die boodskap wat ek deur jou blog gekry het. 😁
17 Okt 2018 om 12:35 nm
Bly jy het dit daar ingelees.
10 Okt 2018 om 10:17 nm
Die reënboë het my oog gevang, maar toe kom die duiwe.
11 Okt 2018 om 9:37 nm
Dankie Toortsie op die Camino sal dit baie spesiaal wees as jy ‘n reënboog sien en dink dan aan ons vasgekluister agter ‘n lessenaar.
11 Okt 2018 om 9:39 nm
Ek moet nog eers een groot bergie oor voor dit kan realiseer. 😁
11 Okt 2018 om 10:19 nm
Bergie? Hmm 🤔 klink nie te groot nie😉
11 Okt 2018 om 11:24 nm
Jong, dit kan klein wees of groot, wie sal weet? Maar soms net té groot om te oor. Dit kos oortuiging, jy weet. 😊
11 Okt 2018 om 3:41 vm
Ai, die Bill Gates is darem n slim ou ne!
En natuurlik weet jy die twee vryerige duifies is my gunsteling – het jy darem skaam gekry dat jy hulle so afloer?
11 Okt 2018 om 9:40 nm
Daar was inderdaad ‘n etiese diskoers tussen die linkerlob en regterlob van my brein oor genoemde duifies…
Ja-nee Blii Gates is wilder as die wilde weste maar nie slimmer as die De Wetse!
11 Okt 2018 om 6:13 vm
Baie oulike post, Abrie. Daardie pot goud wat so naby jou werk lê, mens moet dit eendag gaan probeer opspoor…😉
11 Okt 2018 om 9:42 nm
Maar Una ons het mos al, ons het dit in George se bankkluis gekry in die Towerpostal dae 🙂
11 Okt 2018 om 9:45 nm
Dis opgebruik Abrie. Ek moes nou skoon ń geskiedkundige potjie vaslê in die Sammy Marks Museum vir die wis en die onwis.
11 Okt 2018 om 9:51 nm
Sonde met die Una – Langenhoven sou trots gewees het op jou.
11 Okt 2018 om 6:38 vm
11 Okt 2018 om 10:49 vm
Bravo aan die dames wat so hard werk. Waar was die mans? Ek is mal oor die foto van die vensterwasser.
11 Okt 2018 om 10:53 vm
Ek neem mos fotos… daar was mans net nie op daardie foto elke half uur was daar ‘n ander groep mense
11 Okt 2018 om 11:02 vm
Oukei, ek verstaan, die dames is net mooier modelle vir jou fotos!
11 Okt 2018 om 11:04 vm
Presies dit is hoekom ek daardie foto gebruik het. Dalk doen en nog blog daaroor (as dit prioriteit kry bo al die ander wat ek nog wil doen)
11 Okt 2018 om 7:59 nm
11 Okt 2018 om 9:06 nm
Thank you very much Rabirius
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