Stained Glass Animals
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I like the overall design, quite distinct from those we see in the Cathedrals of the West. The choice of colour is just amazing here. And it is a much hotter place there, they didn't need so much sunlight coming through and possibly because of this, they used less warm colours, but nonetheless, it is so well balanced. There is obviously a narrative or lesson from the picture on the lower part of the stained glass and we await an expert to explain that to us.
And as a Flickr friend of mine-- herself a master of colours-- pointed out, unlike those from the West, they used more primary colours ( particularly the greens and even the blues and the reds). I wonder how exactly it looked like when it was new though i.e., before weathering for some of the colour of the dyes/pigments has come off.
As a matter of fact, the West seldom uses --and I was taught to never to use-- primary colours. It is much easier to use secondary colours altogether, for they go well with one another readily and the secondary colours are naturally more dense and saturated.
Hraunfossar Waterfall, Iceland.
One of the water rivulets of the Hraunfossar resemble stains on the lava wall. This waterfall is a feast for eye – you can spent hours studying many little vignettes along its almost 1 km length.
The beautiful stained glass petals that adorn the ceiling of the historic Jarvis Street Baptist Church. Originally built in 1875, much of the church was destroyed by fire in 1938 and rebuilt.
A close-up look at one of the stained glass window at Central Synagogue. The camera recorded the difference between the light coming through the window and the background making it look like the glass is on black.
The term stained glass can refer to coloured glass as a material or to works created from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant religious buildings. This fine example is seen in "The Mission " public house in Hull .It is in a room that was the Chapel when the building was The Seamans Mission..
A stained glass panel shining into the darkness.
It is surrounded by branch shadows of the tree nearby...