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This the ceiling of the Chapter Room at York Minster Cathedral. I laid on my back to take this and still could not capture the whole thing. I brought the wrong lens with me for this kind of photo but the beauty and symmetry of this architectural work of art had to be captured as best it could with the lens I had. The Cathedral Chapter is like a Vestry or board of directors who take care of the business of the cathedral.
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I'm not too huge on using street views and auction photos, but sometimes they're our only look into the past.
New Video up on my YouTube channel. Go and check it out to see the behind the scenes of my latest pictures. Beautiful light coming through the Galerie de la Reine's ceiling here. Stay tuned for more :)
Lansing Art Museum, Michigan.
Experimenting with abstract. Your comments, esp. critiques, are sincerely welcomed!
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This shows all but one of the ceiling paperback shelves we built onto the bottom of the 9" BCI joists that support the floor above. When we get the final shelf on as well as the rest of the paperbacks, we'll alphabetize them.
The building, an old church, had 14' ceilings, and so splitting that into two equal spaces minus the floor thickness results in each floor having about 6' 7" of headroom. This puts the base of the joists at a convenient height for retrieving paperback books. Also, this approach provides about 132 additional linear feet of paperback shelf space (6 BCIs, a 1"x12" board creating 2 shelves each 11' long), which leaves the room walls available for other volumes, of which we have plenty.
Eventually - when we get around to it - the library walls will have built-in continuous shelves that go all the way around three walls, 11' each. Right now, we're using prefab shelves to give us somewhere besides the floor to store books. At the time this shot was taken, there were still many hundreds of volumes remaining to move from our old digs. At the back of the room, you can see one of the old windows, which has been sealed off and insulated in preparation for building a wall in front of it that will back the shelves.
Just at the bottom of the image, you can see a Marantz 2325 which serves as the library sound system. This old classic was the ultimate in hi-fi for its day, which was about 1972 or so. In the library, it drives a passive subwoofer and two Linaeum-based surrounds. Sounds fabulous. :-)
The only other non-book-related features of the room are two recliners, a chess table, and a wall with a fishtank and a doorway.
When we're done, there will be about 363 linear feet of bookshelves in the room, between about 231' on the walls (3 walls, 11' each, 7 shelves) and the 132' at the ceiling. This isn't enough for all of our books, but some sections, such as the music and martial arts sections, can go to the spaces devoted to those pursuits (there's a small, but complete, martial arts studio in a building out back that I built by hand, as well as a music studio.) If there is overflow after that, the joists over the entryway may be called into service. You simply can't have too many bookshelves, or books, as far as we're concerned.
I've annotated the image to give an idea of what kind of things are in our library; there are two walls you can't see; there are well populated areas on computer graphics, science, religion and atheism, drawing, do-it-yourself, and so on. Also many books and whole sections haven't made it to the room (or even the building) yet.
The Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh is famous for its Nationality Rooms ---real classrooms, but decorated to reflect various nationalities.
The Chinese room has one of the most ornate ceilings of all the Nationality Rooms. There was a large round table in the middle of the room. I sat down, stretched my arms as far as possible to place my camera, facing up, near the center of the table. (Luckily my screen can be rotated in any direction so I could see what was framed in the image.) I took a few shots. But the dragon was facing the wrong way, so I turned the photo 180º.
At this site, (www.nationalityrooms.pitt.edu) you can view photos of the rooms. Hold your cursor over a photo, then click on the country name to see a short video (2 to 5 min) about each of the 30 rooms.
The building was completed in 1937,. Most of these rooms were dedicated between 1938 and 1957, however newer rooms have been dedicated as recently as 2012. Other rooms are planned or under consideration for the future.
Much of the work on the building was done by immigrants from various countries. The rooms were meant to celebrate the heritage of the many immigrant communities in Pittsburgh. Representatives of each country were permitted to choose the decor of one classroom. Most represent a time from the late 1700's or earlier. There were a few rules they had to follow. There had to be a chalk board in the room. Usually it is hidden behind decorative cabinet doors. There had to be seating for students and a table or desk for the instructor. Several rooms are quite large and can hold classes for dozens of students, but many are smaller rooms suitable for a small group to sit around a table. Those that have desks usually have custom-made chairs in the style of the country with a writing arm desk on the right. The Turkish room has fold-down desk arms for both left and right-handed students.
I thought the ceiling in the one gallery was rather interesting. The gallery itself had a fantastic series of paintings, sort of "Old Dutch Masters" still lifes, with a modern twist.
Cathédrale Notre-Dame
The interior of the cathedral is 138.75 m (about 455 ft) long, 30 m (approx. 98 feet) wide in the nave, and 38 m (about 125 feet) high in the centre. It comprises a nave with aisles, transepts with aisles, a choir with double aisles, and an apse with ambulatory and radiating chapels.
It has interesting stained glass ranging from the 13th to the 20th century. The rose windows are outstanding in their quality.
The ceramic tiled ceiling of a vault at the masdjed-e Nasr Al Molk at Shiraz. The use of the yellow color was an innovation of the Zand era. Later, under the Qajar rulers, the use of yellow was even extended to the point it became the dominant color for the ceiling, while their Safavid predecessors used the blue as the dominant colors.
Taken at Shiraz, Fars province, Iran, April 2009
A buddy and I met at the crack of dawn on Saturday to go shoot in downtown Los Angeles. Almost the middle of August, and we're still stuck in June gloom, and no way we were going to get any decent sunrise shots.
But inside at Union Station, our luck changed. Should have spent the entire morning here, but his battery died and he didn't have a spare.