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Recently visited a mall and discovered that most shopping malls have same DNA, even gender, predictable disconnects and abrupt endings...
Library entranceway windows and lights at sunset, Powell River, B.C.
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Nikkor ED VR 4.3-180mm f/3-5.9
PENTAX K-1 • FF Mode • 6400 ISO • Pentax FA* 24mm F2 IF AL
Fourvière
Lyon • Rhône-Alpes • France
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The name of today's post really says it all! Often times we are too buys taking photographs of the things at eye-level that we forget about the wonderful work that goes into the incredible ceilings of these buildings we inhabit. Today's photograph was taken inside the Chicago Cultural Center. To keep the folks setting up for a party out of frame I had to point the camera up, but, frankly, where else are you going to point the glass with such an incredible ceiling? The Cultural Center has another incredible domed stained glass ceiling in the Grand Army of the Republic Hall on the opposite side of the building. I'll be sure to process and post that photograph later.
I'm traveling today and I don't know if I can get the image up on flick in time for you all to click through and see the full resolution version. Hang tight and check back later and I'll be sure to try and manage!
March 8, 2021 - Dale Chihuly's Persian Ceiling at the entrance to the Himalayan Mountains Biome at the Franklin Park Conservatory. Columbus, Ohio
What an exhausting 2 days. 36 hours, 5 airports, 3 cities. Breakfast in ATL, Lunch in DC, Dinner in NYC, and then the reverse today. And tomorrow it gets worse. I'll be out of town til the 2nd so absent from Flickr (well, this account at least - my 365 will be active) so will catch up in March!
Union Station is a beautifully-restored 19th-century railroad station in Nashville, TN. The lobby has this soaring 65 foot barrel-vaulted ceiling with 100-year-old Tiffany styled stained-glass.
The change from vinyl to "old reclaimed wood" tongue and groove ceiling is remarkable! It's just a "look," but we are loving the feel of it. Additional beams also add so much character, I think! We will be happy when it's all done! Light fixtures are being put back up today, and fans, and then I think there will be a repaint on the walls, though that was not planned for. :( It will be okay, though- that is my new mantra. :)
One of the many very intricate ceilings of the Alcázar.
Royal Alcázar of Seville - Seville - Spain
The Unitarian Memorial Church
Fairhaven, Massachusetts
December 19th, 2014
I was lucky enough to me invited to spend the afternoon inside one of the town of Fairhaven's most iconic structures, the Unitarian Memorial Church. The first image seen here is not of the church but of the stage in the adjacent building's auditorium that is connected to the church. There is not a single inch inside these buildings that there isn't a feast for the eyes.
Many, many images to follow, stay tuned.
Some history of the church in general:
"The Unitarian Memorial Church in Fairhaven Massachusetts was built, financed and donated to the Unitarians in 1904 by Henry H. Rogers in memory of his mother, Mary Eldredge Huttleston. The architects Brigham, Coveney and Bisbee of Boston designed this church in the 15th century Gothic perpendicular style.
The Unitarian Memorial Church is one hundred fourteen feet in height, one hundred feet long in body and fifty-three feet wide. The nave is thirty-two feet wide and seventy-one feet long. The main aisle is sixty-two feet long and six feet wide.
The church, parish house and former parsonage (now Harrop Center) of the Unitarian Society are so placed as to form three sides of a quadrangle, set among well-kept lawns and shrubbery.
Granite (locally quarried) with Indiana limestone decorative carvings dominate the exterior while marble and limestone carvings dominate the interior. All stonework artistry was created by forty-five Italian craftsmen brought to Fairhaven by Rogers."
SOURCE: unitarianmemorialchurch.org/
The choir ceiling at Carlisle Cathedral features a stunning 14th-century timber barrel vault, famously restored and painted in 1853 by Owen Jones. The ceiling is painted deep blue and decorated with over 2,000 gold stars and celestial symbols, following the original medieval design. It was last repainted in 1970.
Morrison Library, UCBerkeley.
I don't believe this is true "running plaster", as this room was created in the 1920s to resemble an old English mansion. But I'll see what I can learn about it.
Lichfield Cathedral, 2011.
An earlier set from Lichfield - www.flickr.com/photos/petezab/sets/72157624963696975/
The magnificent ornamental ceiling of the Basilique Notre Dame de Fourviere in Lyon, France. This church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary who is said to have saved Lyon from the Black Death that swept through Europe in 1643.
The photo was taken using an iPhone XR with some post-processing done in Lightroom.