Kind Hearted Kevelaer-3
If you thought the color was over the top on my last post of the entrance to the Mary Basilica feast your eyes on the main church interior, a very hard church to capture without a tripod but a slightly higher ISO and some good glass helped to make this shot of a religious rainbow.
The story of the Marien apparitions and this pilgrimage site comes from a merchant that traveled the road between Weeze and Geldern regularly in 1640’s Hendrik Busman.
The story goes that around Christmas in 1641 he stopped as usual to pray at a small cross on the road in Kevelar while praying he heard “ Build me a chapel on this site”, most likely thinking he imbibed to much wine he ignored the voice and kept traveling.
The voice was persistent and he heard it three more time on his travels of which he kept ignoring until his wife had a vision on the following Easter in which she saw a chapel with a portrait of the “Our lady of Luxemburg” inside.
Once the wife was involved things moved quickly and the merchant built the chapel with a portrait just as the wife envisioned and though Hendrik gets all the credit I think Frau Busman deserves most of the praise.
I took this with my D750 and Tamron SP 24-70mm 2.8 G2 Lens at 24mm 0.5s, f/8 ISO 1600 processed in LR, Topaz Denoise, PS (Lumenzia curves masks and DXO Nik Color Efex)
Disclaimer: Not trying to be realistic in my editing there is enough realism in the world, my style is a mix of painterly and romanticism as well as a work in progress.
Kind Hearted Kevelaer-3
If you thought the color was over the top on my last post of the entrance to the Mary Basilica feast your eyes on the main church interior, a very hard church to capture without a tripod but a slightly higher ISO and some good glass helped to make this shot of a religious rainbow.
The story of the Marien apparitions and this pilgrimage site comes from a merchant that traveled the road between Weeze and Geldern regularly in 1640’s Hendrik Busman.
The story goes that around Christmas in 1641 he stopped as usual to pray at a small cross on the road in Kevelar while praying he heard “ Build me a chapel on this site”, most likely thinking he imbibed to much wine he ignored the voice and kept traveling.
The voice was persistent and he heard it three more time on his travels of which he kept ignoring until his wife had a vision on the following Easter in which she saw a chapel with a portrait of the “Our lady of Luxemburg” inside.
Once the wife was involved things moved quickly and the merchant built the chapel with a portrait just as the wife envisioned and though Hendrik gets all the credit I think Frau Busman deserves most of the praise.
I took this with my D750 and Tamron SP 24-70mm 2.8 G2 Lens at 24mm 0.5s, f/8 ISO 1600 processed in LR, Topaz Denoise, PS (Lumenzia curves masks and DXO Nik Color Efex)
Disclaimer: Not trying to be realistic in my editing there is enough realism in the world, my style is a mix of painterly and romanticism as well as a work in progress.