Windows Catch the Photographer's Eye

I was showing a friend some of the thousand photographs I've taken over the past 5 or so years, and it became clear that one of my photographic fetishes is windows . . . more specifically what is visible through windows. Windows serve a dual function, of course . . . to see from and to show off. I like to capture what's being shown.

The shot above is a window on a street off of Christopher Street in Manhattan's West Village. New York is the ultimate cornucopia of windows. 

I like the peacock feathers draped in the background of this display. They seem a reminder that layered on the bland skeletal superstructures of our world is beauty . . . an odd but fascinating blessing.