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My desktop machine, a 2ghz Pentium running Windows XP, is dying a fast and colorful death.
But At least it's making some interesting pictures before it goes!
1914-18 War Memorial stained glass window showing Saints Gabriel, Michael & Raphael. - Church of St Swithun, Woodborough Nottinghamshire
These windows were created for Bedenham School, Gosport, Hampshire UK. The sun window and moon window were created to create an atmosphere of calm and serenity to two ‘mood rooms’ designed as a ‘chill out’ space for the children. The cool blues and greens and purples of the moon flood one of the quiet rooms with soothing colour. The warmer sun window lifts moods with bright bold yellows, oranges and reds by Lamberts, Tatra and St Just. Both windows use traditional leading techniques and mouth blown full antique glass with kiln fired painted oxide pigments and sand-blasted decoration. As archetypal symbols of day and night, male, female and activity and wisdom these windows are easily interpreted by the children, identified with and feel welcomed by. The two classroom windows had the theme of a Robin and a Kingfisher.
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.
Galeries Lafayette – 38 Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin 75009 Paris
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strong winter sun - I liked the geometries a lot
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The window of Castle Galleries, Mailbox, Birmingham - currently dedicated to Brazilian football legend Pelé.
Photograph by Annerley Johnson, 11th September 2016
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Now a question, was this the same one I photographed last week that belonged to Southern National ? It was not displaying plates at either end and there was no fleet number on the near side. I am not sure it is a new delivery as I detect a slight shade change in the front valance..........how have I become this obsessed ??????
The church of St Nikolaus dominates the small town of Walbeck with its soaring steeple. It is a large, impressive building of mostly 15th century date (though much older in origin) consisting of nave, south aisle and an apsed chancel.
We visited with the artist Joachim Klos, who was responsible for designing the entire glazing scheme for the church in the 1980s. This sequence is highly symbolic in nature and takes as its overall theme the soul's journey towards the Heavenly Jerusalem, with much use of gold with an otherwise limited palette, and many Baroque elements incorporated into the designs inspired by the church's organ-case. It is a very striking sequence (if a little difficult to decipher) and thanks to its minimal colouring leaves the church flooded with light.
For more detail see the link below:-
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)
Taken from a ledge. Okay. A balcony. But ledge sounds better. Outside the fifth floor of the Kennedy Library, Cal Poly, San Luis Nabisco.
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Anytime we have a challenge like backlit or silhouette, I resort to taking photos of my cat looking out the window.
For Our Daily Challenge: Backlit.
1940 window in the Waldegrave chantry chapel of St Mary's church, Bures, Suffolk, which is inscribed, 'Of your charity pray for the souls of the builders of this chapel, Sir Wm Waldegrave Knt, d 1527 and Margery his wife d 1540' and also a whole list of their named descendants.
Although several printed sources, including Birkin Haward, D P Mortlock and a Nadfas guide, claim this window for Wright & Dix, it is clearly signed and dated with the stag and initials mark of Horace Wilkinson.
Aynho's church of St Michael is one of the strangest, most eccentric looking buildings, consisting of an awkward marriage between the late medieval tower and the bulky Georgian body, built after the original nave and chancel were demolished in 1723. The rebuilding, by Edward Wing, has left the church looking more like a stately home with a gothic tower tacked on!
There are three more fully designed stained glass windows, an east window by Thomas Willement with three medallion scenes, and two especially fine windows by C.E.Kempe on the south side, depicting Archangel Michael battling the Dragon and the Annunciation respectively.