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Millennium Window, St John's Cathedral, Brisbane.
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This amazing stained glass window is by artist Scott Maxwell. It was dedicated in 2002 by Queen Elizabeth II.
HDR from 7 exposures: +3, +2, +1, 0, -2, -4, -6 EV. If anyone ever doubts the usefulness of HDR, this photo should be enough to convince them. There's not a single shot in this sequence where you can see detail in both the window and the stonework. Compare to a photo from the cathedral's own website.
Nikon FM3A
Nikon 85mm f/1.4 D
AGFA Digibase CR200 PRO
Scanned with Pacific Image PrimeFilm XE and Vuescan
Post: Lightroom
Film: Bought at Beau Photo, Processed at The Lab
Part of my new photo series about reflections in the windows of office buildings in Sao Paulo. More to come
The Sacred Heart Roman Catholic church in Ilkley is a remarkable blend of traditional and modern architecture, with an entrance porch and apse in Victorian Gothic and north and south nave extensions dating from the 1970s with a saw-tooth wall arrangement, inspired by Coventry cathedral.
More remarkable still is the complete glazing scheme of contemporary stained glass, all executed in the dalle de verre ('slab of glass') wherein thick chunks of coloured glass are set in a concrete or resin matrix (as opposed to traditional lead). The technique was popular in the 1960s and 70s but sharply declined since, largely due to many such windows latterly suffering from heat expansion, leakages or structural problems.
The exceptional scheme of dalle de verre windows at Ilkley includes both windows with concrete and windows with resin matrixes; The earliest windows are those in the apse which utilise concrete, being the work of Pierre Fourmaintraux of Whitefriars. The remaining windows in the nave were executed with resin and supplied by John Hardman Studios of Birmingham in the late 1970s.
These dalle de verre windows ably illustrate the richness and potential of large scale uses of the technique. Current research will hopefully find solutions to the problems encountered with the technique and may hopefully one day lead to a resurgence in the medium.
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strong winter sun - I liked the geometries a lot
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Using Windows 7's Aero themes it is very difficult to tell which window I am in. I have changed back to classic where I can now see which window I am in. I feel like I have gone back in time ten years but at least I can see I am editing page 41 in the above example.
I am very upset with Windows. Maybe the back end threading (etc) is getting better (certainly my computer is now faster) but the GUI changes made to Windows and Office do not help me, so it feels as if I am required to pay for down-grades. (Powerpoint 2007 lacks macros record capabilities in an obvious, shocking down grade).
Aero does look pretty but if I can't see which window I am in it is no good to me.
I am using a custom start menu (Start Menu X freeware no affiliation) to be able to display all my programs like in XP and win2k. I am left with basically a Windows 2000 interface. It is not pretty but it works.
As you can see from the icon in the status bar above, I am also using Google desktop search, which is still better than the search included in Windows 7 afaik.
I feel kind of sorry for Microsoft. They made good products available. But now that we have them and we are not growing extra arms or getting that much more intelligent (I am not, but apparently people in general are) we do not have new software requirements so how do they stay in business other than by forcing us to pay for "upgrades" that are not upgrades since we do not need so much of an upgrade since they have already given us what we want and need. Excel Word PowerPoint changed our lives, but for the past 13 years they have got perhaps only a little better, or maybe a little worse (Ribbon!?!%&#@).
Perhaps this applies to Western linguistic culture in general?
This window is based on the story of Tobit of Nenevah from the Book of Tobit. Tobit is described as a man of good faith who suffers from blindness and poverty. He sent his son, Tobias, to a distant city to collect money he had deposited there, and hired a companion to accompany the youth. The companion was actually the archangel Raphael in disguise. Their journey was successful: not only was the money recovered, but medicine made from a monstrous fish Tobias encounters along the way cures Tobit's blindness. (Wikipedia)