Besides enjoying grand panoramas of a city, I think it’s good to look at the smaller things, too.\u00a0 It’s often these that makes a place interesting and reveal a lot about its character. \u00a0Details of architecture are among these facets, providing a sense of style, color, sometimes even grace.<\/p>\n

My wife has been taking pictures of doors for years.\u00a0 I have to confess to being sensitized to entryways by her careful eye.\u00a0 In modern towns and cities, doors tend to be fairly ugly things — prefabricated, mass-produced, often of low quality. \u00a0They lack character. \u00a0That’s not at all true of older buildings and older cities, like many of those in Europe, and it’s certainly not true of Charleston.\u00a0 Here the doors are interesting, most custom crafted for that building.<\/p>\n

My wife didn’t make this journey to Charleston with me,\u00a0so in her place I documented some of those doorways that most interested me. \u00a0As you can see they vary significantly, from small and functional to large and ornate.<\/p>\n

Here then is a gallery of ‘Doors of Charleston’:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \t