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The Anglican Cathedral - the fifth largest Cathedral building in the world apparently....
I'll have to come back, as the light outside had faded badly by this time and I'm not sure that I saw this building at its best. I did manage to get a few shots, but not as many as I had originally hoped for. Plenty of potential though....
Once inside the Cathedral it is easy to get caught up walking around the immense edifice and then be lulled into thinking you've seen it all, right up until the point where you take a short turning to the right away from the main altar. You think it's a short corridor and then you see this through an arch on your left, and realise there's a whole other huge vaulted chapel to explore. This is the 'Lady Chapel' - larger than your average Parish Church, has its very own organ and was in fact, the first part of the Cathedral building to be completed and consecrated. So there you go.....
The light wasn't great for a hand-held P&S, so I had to use the balcony as a tripod, but it was so deep it was hard to frame the shot without the surface of the balcony entering the foregound. To take this shot I therefore had to lie across the stone surface (about 5') and place my camera as close to the edge without me or more importantly it falling over!!!! (I'm not joking.) I'm not sure people get this brave very often as one visitor was a little shocked to turn the corner and just see two feet waggling over the inside edge at her!
Still, if you were stood down there you can see why you might consider it 'a bit high' don't you think?
Lineage...
The Anglican Cathedral - the fifth largest Cathedral building in the world apparently....
I'll have to come back, as the light outside had faded badly by this time and I'm not sure that I saw this building at its best. I did manage to get a few shots, but not as many as I had originally hoped for. Plenty of potential though....
Once inside the Cathedral it is easy to get caught up walking around the immense edifice and then be lulled into thinking you've seen it all, right up until the point where you take a short turning to the right away from the main altar. You think it's a short corridor and then you see this through an arch on your left, and realise there's a whole other huge vaulted chapel to explore. This is the 'Lady Chapel' - larger than your average Parish Church, has its very own organ and was in fact, the first part of the Cathedral building to be completed and consecrated. So there you go.....
The light wasn't great for a hand-held P&S, so I had to use the balcony as a tripod, but it was so deep it was hard to frame the shot without the surface of the balcony entering the foregound. To take this shot I therefore had to lie across the stone surface (about 5') and place my camera as close to the edge without me or more importantly it falling over!!!! (I'm not joking.) I'm not sure people get this brave very often as one visitor was a little shocked to turn the corner and just see two feet waggling over the inside edge at her!
Still, if you were stood down there you can see why you might consider it 'a bit high' don't you think?