View allAll Photos Tagged windows
it's all about the view...literally~ I have been practicing with shooting INTO window light. I love to use window light as often as possible, but tend to shy away from placing my subject directly in front of a window. Here, my daughter was using window light to light up her objects of play and I was using it to light her up! ;)
Near Renfrew in Ontario, Canada, there is a ghost town named Balaclava. It use to be a saw-mill town. We decided to visit the place and take a few shots. I got myself shooting mostly windows and old wood and paint textures.
Unfortunately, one of the buildings has a sign on it saying that a permit was requested to destroy the general store building to transform it into a commercial lot.
Most of the shots got re-worked with Topaz Adjust 3 to enhance the colors and contrast.
Enjoy,
The Verney memorial window in the north aisle at Lighthorne is distinguished by a fine representation of St Elizabeth of Hungary in it's left hand light, shown holding flowers and surrounded by birds, beautifully detailed and a late work by Florence Camm, 1946.
Window of the old Milford, NJ train station. [it is now a bakery and coffee shop]
“An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do.”
― Russell Hoban, The Medusa Frequency
This Rose Window, also the East Window, is the symbol of All Saints' Cathedral. Upon entering the church, it immediately strikes the visitor. This window also heads the Cathedral's stationery.
I sometimes think of it as the star of Bethlehem.
It is hard to photograph it with a simple camera, and this is the best among my many attempts.
my first Windows 8 Pimp ;-)
Wallpaper: Pencil on GoodFon
Rainmeter: Rainmeter 2.3 Beta (r1203)
Rainmeter MPlayer/GMail/Weather/Clock/Date: Nookie
Rainmeter Upper Taskbar: Switchin
Windows Taskbar Icons: Eclipse 2
Windows Startmenue Icons: Token
Windows Charmbar Icons: Eclipse 2 (Standard Windows Logo)
Start Orb: Start8
Startmenue Background: Start Screen Customizer
Charmbar: Charm Bar Customizer
Please visit my german blog for more details.
I was playing with the light settings to try to get this effect of the shutters outlining the shot. View the FlickrSkin: Landscapes and Seasons: by Ace Starry
When this church suffered bomb damage in 1941, all but one of the stained glass windows were destroyed, this window survived.
Named the Nunc Dimittis window (one of the canticles said or sung at Evening Prayer according to the Book of Common Prayer),
it shows the story of Simeon holding Jesus in the temple after being told that he would not die until he had seen the Lord's messiah. On the right an elderly prophet, Anna who had also been waiting night and day in the temple to see Jesus. On the left are Mary and Joseph who had come to the temple with an offering of two doves to present the baby to God according to Jewish custom.
The window was installed in 1921 in memory of Mr and Mrs J Cross. There were originally two adjacent windows depicting the Magnificat and the Te Deum which did not survive the bomb blast.
East window of the chancel portraying Christ at Emmaus, the work of Christopher Charles Powell of Highgate, London 1938. In the process of looking for a signature from a stepladder I was able to see the architectural panels at the bottom, normally hidden from view by the reredos.
A grand 14th century building with proud west tower and aisled nave.The earliest part is the south door which is a good late Norman piece. It leads to a fairly dark interior, very much scraped. The chancel is more restored, having been largely rebuilt in 1858.
The best features here are the monuments, with good early effigies of Thomas & Alice de Wolvey c1300 at the west end of the north aisle (annoyingly a funeral bier has been stashed next to it which blocks closer inspection). At the opposite end of the north aisle is another tomb with effigies, but badly mutilated ones of early 17th century date (Thomas Ashley and wife, 1603), alas in a tight and heavily cluttered corner and very difficult to see. The damage to these figures occured when the north aisle roof fell in in the 17th century; it seems wood was an expensive commodity back then since the broken old beams were re-used, which necessitated moving the entire north wall inwards by about 2ft!
The church is generally kept locked and alarmed, and this being my third visit without access I tried a couple of numbers with limited success, then the vicar just happened to stroll into the churchyard and kindly agreed to let me inside. It was certainly worth persevering and I'm happy to have got in at last!
Stained glass window by Kempe in memory of those from this parish who fell in the service of their Country in the Great War - Gwendoline Hanbury dedicates this window AD 1819
Remember ye Evan Robert Hanbury dearly loved only son of Evan and Gwendoline Hanbury www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/ex070Z to whose memory his mother dedicates this window
Remember George Barrett who fell in the Great War,"reported missing" Gallipoli 6th August 1915 .- Church of All Saints, Braunston Rutland
East window c1870 showing Christ flanked by SS Paul & John; Pevsner suggests the window may be by Evans, but I would consider the studio of O'Connor a more likely candidate.
St Michael's at Lilleshall spans the Middle Ages with the nave largely late Norman in it's fabric, a 13th century chancel and a late medieval perpendicular west tower. There has been much restoration in the Victorian period. The most significant feature externally is the south doorway, now sheltered by a Victorian porch, which is a fine example of late Norman transitional architecture (similar work remains at the nearby ruins of Lilleshall Abbey).
The interior betrays it's more recent restorations in it's early 20th century furnishings and mixture of Victorian stained glass. But the older features are well worth seeing, the earliest being the Norman font with it's unusual non-figurative decoration set in arcading, and surrounded by a collection of medieval floor tiles. At the west end is a large Royal Arms of Charles II painted on wood.
On the north side of the chancel is the large monument to Sir Richard & Lady Leveson (d.1661 and 1674 respectively) in contrasting black and white marbles. The effigies of the deceased are shown reclining, one above the other.