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HDR photograph by Timothy Selvage of stain glass windows at Coventry Cathedral, UK. What a week!! I've fallen behind with my processing and regular uploading as I've been working on a mini project that isn't (hold your breath) anything to do with HDR.
It's more experimental and progressive than completed though. But over the next I hope to get back to the more usual processing and uploads until I'm ready to post the new work.
This shot of the stain glass windows at Coventry Cathedral was a simple and satisfying shot. It was towards the end of an overcast day which made the inside of the church dark, but bright enough to illuminate these windows. In fact I think that the overcast light illuminated these windows evenly which gives this a soft glow rather than a glaring light.
I used HDR but only because of the spotlights. Otherwise I would have used two exposures, one for the room and one for the windows & reflections on the floor. In cast the windows as pictured are from a single exposure.
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I haven't been out shooting any architecture images since early March as I haven't been able to get into London because of the lockdown. But about a month ago I was in Coventry for a day as my son, who is at uni there, went to collect his things from the flat he'd been sharing with 2 other lads. Apparently, and I say apparently because I refused to accompany him into the flat and I don't know for sure, but the idea was for the 3 of them to work together to clean the place before they all departed. How well that went I have no idea. Let's just say I am resigned to losing the deposit we paid on the flat and leave it at that.
So while the 3 of them cleaned I went out and walked around Coventry with my camera. Hooray, there is actually architecture in Coventry. Perhaps not the most inspiring of architecture as the place was bombed in the war and a lot of it is post-war architecture. But there was enough there for me to explore happily for 3 or 4 hours.
This car park is very close to where my son was staying and I liked the clean lines of it. In fact this is two images, set side by side on a white background, with one of images flipped horizontally so that the light in the centre matches. I like the abstract nature of it but I also like that it is still recognisable as a car park.
The Cathedral Church of Saint Michael, commonly known as Coventry Cathedral, is the seat of the Bishop of Coventry and the Diocese of Coventry within the Church of England. The cathedral is located in Coventry, West Midlands, England.
The city has had three cathedrals. The first was St Mary's, a monastic building, from 1102 to 1539, of which only a few ruins remain. The second was St Michael's, a 14th-century Gothic church designated as a cathedral in 1918, which remains a ruined shell after its bombing during the Second World War, apart from its tower and spire, which rise to 284 feet (87 metres). The third, consecrated in 1962, is the new St Michael's Cathedral, built immediately adjacent to the ruins and tower of the former cathedral – together forming both a symbol of war-time destruction and barbarity, and also of peace and reconciliation.
Wikipedia
The original monastery, the Priory of St Anne, was built of local sandstone between 1381 and 1410.
The site included a church, a chapter house, the Great Cloister surrounded by 12 individual monks’ cells, and the Prior’s Cell and refectory, now the main building known as the Prior’s House. Near the Prior’s House there was probably also a guest house, bakery, brewery, kiln house and granaries.
Each monk lived in a self-contained cell, a two-storey dwelling within a small walled garden. Remains of these cells, and of the church, have been discovered through archaeological excavation on site.
An old RAW file image re-vamped using Photoshop CC2020 & Luminar 4 ...
On the night of 14th November 1940, the city of Coventry and its Cathedral were devastated by an air raid !
In memory of a good friend and drinking partner no longer with us ... Dave Tipton. This day - 16th November 2010 - Dave gave me a mini tour of not only the Cathedral, but a few pubs as well. It was the last time I saw him alive. Sadly he passed away from cancer 2 months later !
Earl Street
Coventry
The building is grade II listed -
1913-17 by Edward Garret and H W Simister of Birmingham in Elizabethan style. Sandstone ashlar. Mainly symmetrical front with central belfry, large central porch flanked by gilded armorial decoration under giant figures. Many gables. Clock-tower on right. Fine lead rainwater heads. historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/134292...
The Council House was the result of a competition held in 1910, to match the style of St. Mary’s Hall and the Police Station in Bayley Lane. It was won by Birmingham architects Edward Garratt and H. W. Simister. Henry Wilson was to enrich both the inside and out. His involvement did not start until 1915. Inside Wilson took charge of furnishing and embellishing the first-floor Council Chamber. Outside, he adorned all three storeys of the entrance bay.
In 1915 he was climbing the scaffolding to inspect the possible sitting of one of his stone sculptures when he was overcome by searing pains and was narrowly saved from falling. He had to be carried down and rushed to hospital, desperately ill with a stomach ulcer aggravated by exhaustion.
He dressed the Hay Lane tower with shields of civic office and carved the four patron saints of the British Isles, keeping watch over the city. On the other corner of St Mary’s Street, jutting out of the tower, he designed a cantilevered clock with the swept back wings of a golden Angel. The original clock had a seven foot copper disc face but this was damaged in the Blitz and was replaced with white glass with a light behind it.
Below the clock Peeping Tom is at his window looking for Godiva; but she is over the main entrance carved in white Portland stone along with Earl of Leofric and Justice in the centre. Interestingly the Godiva statue and Justice did not go up until 1924, as Henry Wilson had not been paid and he held them back until he was. This was due to the fact that the city council had put the money to pay Henry into an account, but had spent it by the time it was due! So when King George V opened it in 1920, it was not fully finished, with two main sculptures missing!
From -
Henry Wilson – the all round artist for Coventry Council House
www.coventrysociety.org.uk/public-art-in-coventry/council...
Coventry 38 (KWK 38F) an ECW bodied Daimler Fleetline is resting between journeys on route 25 to the Station in August 1972
Ex Coventry 63 (SWK 63J), now WMPTE 63Y, a Daimler Fleetline with Park Royal bodywork, works route 2 to Cheylesmore. Behind is an East Lancs bodied Fleetline. Taken in June 1974
Coventry 53 (KKV 53G) is seen in Pool Meadow whilst working route 13 to Willenhall in February 1973. It is a Daimler Fleetline with East Lancs bodywork.
Lillington Road in Wood End, Coventry.
These houses are owned and managed by Orbit Housing Group. The properties were built in November 1998 with a plaque erected proudly stating "building new homes from old".
Wood End is undergoing major re-development - fomer council housing being demolished, making way for new-build social housing.
A surprise repaint into Coventry Transport maroon and cream in 1972 was 26 (KWK 26F) an ECW bodied Daimler Fleetline. The only concession to the era was the new style fleetname and numbers, the maroon engine cover and the beading underneath the lower deck windows being painte maroon instead of black. 28,56 and 57 were similarly treated.
Coventry Transport 30 (KWK 30F), an ECW bodied Daimler Fleetline is waiting time at Whitmore Park early in 1974
Almost straight from the paintshop is Coventry Daimler CVG6/Metro Cammell 279 (XVC 279). On route 13 to Broad Lane, the bus is in Pool Meadow Bus Station in July 1971.
Seen at Walsgrave Hospital whilst working route 4 in February 1974 is Coventry 48 (KKV 48G) an East Lancs bodied Daimler Fleetline.
Recntly repainted in the then new Marshall Red livery is Coventry 343(CDU 343B) a Willowbrook bodied Leyland Atlantean. It is in Broadgate working route 21 to Wood End.