These must be the oldest garage doors in France or certainly a contender for the most decrepit! They have lots of interesting features so I expect that you'll be seeing more of them in the future. For today though, I liked this horseshoe nailed to the crumbling planking - perhaps the owner thought that, with a bit of luck, it wouldn't fall down ;-)
Today's OCOLOY learning point: there are three ways to hold your camera incorrectly and thus skew the perspective in the image. Not holding the camera level in an east-west sense; tipping the focal plan up or down; not having the focal plane at 90 degrees to the subject. All of these produce perspective distortion with a singular particularity... you only notice it after you have uploaded the image to your computer! It's a 10 second fix in Lightroom or Photoshop, but if you're not editing, you're stymied! I'm learning to be much more careful before I press the shutter so that I don't have to go back and take the shot again... always assuming that's possible.
(You can find an explanation of OCOLOY in my 1 January post and in my profile.)
I am admiring your OCOLOY challenge, very much, and have noticed the same thing in some of my shots, especially the wide angle ones. My congrats to you, for this creative challenge.
This door has lived long and seen much. I hope that many passed through it, were welcomed by those within and left enriched. Excellent shot of old is good and older is best.
Great find! I visit on holidays a small town that has many doors like this. I agree with you about how to hold the camera. If you hold incorrectly, also you can find that you cut image borders when you center it in post-processing. I tend to keep a bit more distance to borders if i'm not sure if picture is correctly aligned ;)
