Post HOLY PLACES: St Pauls Cathedral, London

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

05/17/2006 03:06:13 AM · #1

I had journeyed into London to take some photos of St Pauls Cathedral for the Holy Places Challenge but discovered that no photography was allowed! Anyhow, I decided to seek permission from the Chapter House and they very kindly granted it to me, but on the basis that the photographs were for personal use only and not for any form of gain. Given the time and effort that the stewards gave to allow me to take the photos I did not think it right to enter them for the challenge but figured folk might like to see them anyhow.

More details with the full size photos.

Any comments gratefully received.

Carl

PS Re-posted after the end of the scoring for HOLY PLACES which had some really good images

Rikki

Canon EOS-20D

05/17/2006 03:08:01 AM · #2

Love the dome Carl ;) Great shot!

ragamuffingirl

Sony Alpha NEX-5N

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

05/17/2006 06:31:14 AM · #3

The Holy Places I did not enter:

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

05/17/2006 09:24:06 AM · #4

Nice shots, ragamuffingirl. And they are the out-takes - sigh

Carl

ragamuffingirl

Sony Alpha NEX-5N

05/17/2006 09:25:23 AM · #5

I didn't think any of them were good enough for the challenge, I sat this one out. Then, when I was voting, I was like... I might as well have participated. I couldn't have done any worse than I usually do.

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

05/17/2006 09:32:01 AM · #6

Originally posted by ragamuffingirl:

Looking at the entries I think you internal shot would have done well: it is certainly my favourite of the bunch. I guess we will both never know how well - or badly - we would have done on this challenge!

Carl

ragamuffingirl

Sony Alpha NEX-5N

05/17/2006 09:34:47 AM · #7

I have previous shots of that archway that are in black and white because of high noise. I was very excited to go back and shoot that church again with my 30D because I could actually use 800 ISO. But, I 1) Wasn't satisfied, 2) I was concerned that because of the previous pictures of the same subject, everyone would know it was my entry.

xianart

Canon EOS-7D

Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM

05/17/2006 09:36:31 AM · #8

lovely shots. it's too bad you didn't get a shot of the floating dome. wren designed the dome to be self supporting, but the church decided it would fall down. they insisted on him placing columns to support the dome. if you look at the top of the columns - the dome does not rest on them. i guess he had the last laugh...

05/17/2006 09:44:38 AM · #9

Originally posted by xianart:

The Wren story on this one is quite incredible. Evidently, the church authorities wanted total austerity and banned any colourful images inside the cathedral, probably as it was seen to be too "Papish". However, there were colourful images commissioned in later years, including the mosaics in the Quire. An interesting place for sure.

Carl

05/17/2006 12:08:48 PM · #10

bump :-)

Message edited by author 2006-05-17 17:17:59.