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Along the Tammany Trace, Louisiana
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This is the ceiling in the Thistle Chapel at St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland. It's a small side chapel off the main part of the cathedral. There is so much detail and history in this beautiful small chapel I easily spent a half hour within it.
The Order of the Thistle is Scotland’s great order of chivalry, and membership is considered to be one of the country’s highest honors. The Order is traditionally given to
Scots or people of Scots ancestry, who have given distinguished service. Appointments are entirely in the Thistle a personal gift of the Sovereign.
The Order of the Thistle has roots in the Middle Ages, but the present day order was largely created in 1687 by King James VII of Scotland (King James II of England). The nave of Holyrood Abbey was adapted as its chapel, but in 1688 the Abbey was ransacked by the Edinburgh mob, furious at King James’ Roman Catholic allegiance. After that, the Knights of the Thistle had no chapel of their own for over 200 years.
The Thistle Chapel was designed by Robert Lorimer and finished in 1911. It contains stalls for the 16 knights, the Sovereign’s stall and two Royal stalls. The chapel contains a wealth of detail, both religious and heraldic, and much of it peculiarly Scottish, including angels playing bagpipes.
Entered through a low-vaulted vestibule or ante-chapel at the east end of the Preston aisle, the chapel is a rectangle of three bays, with a polygonal eastern apse and a stone vault encrusted with a rich pattern of ribs and carved bosses. The effect is greatly enhanced by heraldic and figurative stained glass in the windows.Thistle Looking up
Along the sides of the chapel are the knights’ stalls, which are capped by lavishly carved canopies with the helms and crests of the knights rising above. The richest effect of all, however, is reserved for the Sovereign’s stall at the west end of the chapel.
It was a bit of challenge for me to capture this photo as I was using a small point-n-shoot hand held as I didn't bring my tripod for the bigger DSLR.
I manually stitched two photos together as my panorama software couldn't render all the detail. Regardless of the challenges, it was great capture this amazing ceiling.
Kleo loves to model for me. She never stops moving for long. Makes it challenging to get a shot sometimes.
It was beautiful outside this weekend. We made a trip downtown to feed my appetite for buildings and symmetry.
I have approached these buildings before and haven't ever been happy with the result. i decided to take a different perspective and I am really happy with the results.
The hardest part was to get things as close to center as possible. I ended up using the right and left edges and lining them up with the parallel lines of the windows.
Eye (hehe) was going to crop the white, but I think it looks better with it there.
Look at this large size to see the reflection better, that's my brothers expensive camcorder, my arms and the garage. :P
So happy to have beautiful weather and some leftover foliage on this lovely Saturday! I wish you all a great weekend!