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The Berlin S-Bahn tracks run right across Museumsinsel, between the Bodemuseum and the Pergamon. As they pass, the train windows capture a reflection of the museum windows by the tracks.
Showing The Council at Jerusalem, surrounded by various other scenes from The Acts of the Apostles.
In memory of Jacob Clements, (1820-98) sometime SubDean at the Cathedral.
Glass by Clayton & Bell.
Window in my apartment, looking out to a thorough, crap-ass backlot.
Nikon D700
Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 Ai-S @ f/1.2
Single, unedited JPEG
This window display allowed people to walk up, write their secret, and post it anonymously. Sort of like a Grouphug.us IRL.
I am a BIG fan of window lighting. It softens everything, and adds a warm glow. Here, there are 3 different windows one looks through.
Peterborough Cathedral, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire is unusual as an English county in having not one but two major medieval cathedrals, and unique in that neither is in the county town. Peterborough Cathedral's setting in the heart of the busy city is quite different to that of its neighbour Ely Cathedral, which dominates a small, beautiful market town. There is something special about stepping out of Peterborough's Bridge Street, with its department stores, and Cathedral Square, with its chain restaurants, into the peaceful precinct below the superb Early English west front, a match for the spectacular frontages of both Wells and Lincoln.
Peterborough cathedral is dedicated as the Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew, and these Saints images appear in statue and stained glass form several times. Originally the church of a Benedictine Abbey, the current structure was begun in the spring of 1118, and was largely complete by about 1250. The vast wooden roof of the nave is, amazingly, the original, one of only four such roofs in Europe. The fire of 22nd November 2001 came within minutes of destroying it. As it was, the painstaking and expensive process of cleaning the roof, which had just been completed, had to be immediately repeated. The most spectacular part of the cathedral is not Early English at all, but the late medieval retrochoir with its fan-vaulting of 1496-1508, by John Wastell who used the same trick at Kings College Chapel across the Fen in Cambridge.
That Cambridgeshire can claim Peterborough Cathedral is an accident of history, of course, because Peterborough only became a part of the much enlarged county of Cambridgeshire in 1974. In fact, almost all of the county of Cambridgeshire is in the Diocese of Ely, including much of the city of Peterborough. All of the city south and east of the River Nene is in the Diocese of Ely, not Peterborough. And yet, the Cathedral close has a frontage that is almost on the Nene. Because of this, Peterborough Cathedral is closer to the edge of its Diocese than any other English cathedral, including both St Paul's Cathedral and Southwark Cathedral, separated as they are by just a few hundred yards and the River Thames.
North nave window at Burton Hastings, installed in 2001 and designed by local artist Roger Fifield.
Fifiled's work makes a very attractive contemporary adition to this ancient building, and is beautifully painted and stylised, echoing his earliest work from the 1960s, without looking backwards.
The subject appears to be a celebration of village life, with various landmark buildings and elements of the village featured without any obvious religious theme (beyond the small dove in the tracery light above).
This formula for stained glass seems to be popular with certain congregations, who prefer to commemorate 'down-to-earth' subjects of mainly local, secular relevance, than convey a spiritual message. The artist is then given a 'shopping list' of relevant features to include in the design at all cost!
This is a Windows XP desktop using Minimalist Room wallpaper (by 4chan) with a dock by ObjectDock Plus; alternative icons for xplorer2, trashcan, MS Office apps and Acrobat facilitated using ObjectDock and Icon Packager; clock, date and stats skins implemented using Rainmeter.
What better way to celebrate window Wednesday than to stand in a window doing the Wednesday Dance. In the red picture frame is Jenna Ortega who plays Wednesday Addams in the hit Netflix series Wednesday and originated the dance.
I do not do the dance nearly as well, but I do have a cool mask and hat.
We're Here shakes it out to Window Wednesday.
See the Wednesday dance here:
Detail of the east window at Oadby, probably the work of Powells and perhaps even designed by Henry Holiday, but sadly suffering from severe paint loss.
St Peter's church at Oadby is distinguished by a tall early 14th century broach spire and a later Perpendicular nave with clerestorey (whose height clearly exceeds that intended by the builders of the earlier tower).
The sense of height is apparent inside where the nave appears tall for its short length. The walls have been scraped back to the stone during the Victorian restoration but luckily the clerestorey admits enough light to compensate for this (aside from in the chancel).
There are a few decent late 19th/early 20th century windows.
I believe the church is normally kept locked outside of services.