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Best viewed large, not for my photography but for the artistry (Antonio Bellucci).
The parish church of Great Witley is a revelation (no pun intended). This is the most ornate and highly decorated Anglican church I have ever visited. The guide book says, "Witley church is one of the finest 18th Century ecclesiastical interiors in the country and would be worthy of a long detour even if Witley Court did not exist."
I can't disagree. The whole of the ceiling is decorated in biblical scenes, the one shown here (the Ascension) is the largest. In addition, all of the windows are illuminated by a combination of paint and stained glass.
At Birmingham art gallery - and in the absence of any information on it, I don't know who created it, or even what to call it...
Abstracts are not popular by and large but, I am always looking for them. I saw this while my wife and I were having coffee.
The ceiling of the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. One of the things I love about photography is its combination of creative and technical challenges, and this photo provides an example. I've tried before to capture the sublime beauty of this ceiling and have never been satisfied with my results. During my visit last week, I had the idea of turning the ceiling lights into starbursts, so that rather than detract from the photo, they would support and enhance Gaudi's nature-inspired architectural patterns. To do that, I needed to set my camera on a very small aperture, f22. Setting a small aperture meant that I'd need a relatively long exposure, in this case 0.4 seconds. There's no way I can handhold my camera steadily for that long, and tripods aren't allowed in the church. So I sat on a pew in the center of the church. I set my camera's settings to bracket three shots using the self timer, and placed it on the bench pointing directly up at the ceiling. I then waited until there were no people walking by and pressed the shutter. In my first several attempts, I didn't move far enough away from the camera and so the corner of my head was in the frame. Finally this set of shots worked worked perfectly. I combined and processed the three exposures using Aurora HDR, Lightroom and Photoshop.
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The Udvar-Hazy Center is part of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. It's located near Dulles Airport in Virginia.
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No hidden alligators, just a very Renaissance looking ceiling in Kansas City. Easter greetings from Lynn & Michael everyone!!
Ali Qapu (also spelled Āli Qapu or Aali Qapu) usually refers to the name for the palaces of Safavid kings. When Iranians were defeated by Ottoman forces, they were forced to move their capital from Tabriz to Qazvin, and then to Isfahn, to avoid occupation of the capital city.
Shopping Center (Demirören İstiklal, Beyoğlu) in Istanbul. A really nice building. www.demirorenistiklal.com/
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The Cloisters (also known as The Undercroft) connect the East and West quadrangles of the University of Glasgow. With their fluted columns and transverse ribbed vault, these impressive archways are an iconic part of the University, and have been seen onscreen in many films and TV shows including Cloud Atlas and Outlander.
This is a handheld panorama consisting of 11 portrait photos. (Quite an impressive job by the Fuji camera, seen as the pictures were taken at an ISO setting of 12.800!!)
Day 175/365 - Wednesday, 24 June 2026.
Really cool decoration on one of the ceilings inside Melbourne Central.
Basilica di San Vitale - UNESCO patrimonio mondiale dell'umanità (1996)
La costruzione fu iniziata dal vescovo Ecclesio nel 525, vivente ancora Teodorico, e completata nel 547 dal successore di Ecclesio, l'arcivescovo Massimiano, quando Ravenna era già stata riconquistata dall'imperatore Giustiniano I. L'edificio, capolavoro dell'architettura ravennate, combina elementi architettonici romani (la cupola, la forma dei portali, le torri) con elementi bizantini (l'abside poligonale, i capitelli, la costruzione in mattoni)
Basilica of San Vitale - UNESCO World Heritage Site (1996)
The church was begun by Bishop Ecclesius in 526, when Ravenna was under the rule of the Ostrogoths and completed by the 27th Bishop of Ravenna, Maximian, in 547 preceding the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna. The architect of the church is unknown.
The construction of the church was sponsored by a Greek banker, Julius Argentarius, of whom very little is known, except that he also sponsored the construction of the Basilica of Sant' Apollinare in Classe at around the same time. (A donor portrait of the banker may appear among the courtiers on the Justinian mosaic.) The final cost amounted to 26,000 solidi (gold pieces).
The central vault used a western technique of hollow tubes inserted into each other, rather than bricks. The ambulatory and gallery were vaulted only later in the Middle Ages.
The Baroque fresco on the dome was made between 1778 and 1782 by S. Barozzi, U. Gandolfi and E. Guarana.
"A member of the first graduating class of the town’s original wooden high school (demolished in the 1920s), Henry H. Rogers chose to build an educational palace to instill in Fairhaven students a sense of the glories associated with learning. He consulted with the top educators of the day while planning the new school.
The Elizabethan-influence design is by Charles Brigham and includes marble floors, oak paneling, stained glass windows and a lovely auditorium with a beamed ceiling and carved wooden gargoyles. The library/media center was once an octagonal gymnasium that contained the first indoor basketball court in an American high school.
The school was built with its own electric generating plant, operated by a custodian who lived in an apartment located on the third floor. The basement level once housed industrial arts rooms and a home economics kitchen and facilities for agricultural studies. Those well-appointed classrooms and a student garden behind the school were eliminated in the 1930s when the first addition (now demolished) was built.
A legend that nothing could be attached to the exterior of the high school or ownership would revert back to the Rogers family led to the installation of an underground passage from the original building to the addition. Later, free-standing fire escapes were build, again without altering the original structure. When the newest wing of the building was added in the late 1990s, it was determined that the legend was unfounded, allowing the addition to be attached directly to the Rogers building.
The new wing, completed in the year 2000, added updated teaching and lab facilities and improved the high school handicap accessibility, continuing Rogers’ aim to provide for the town’s future."