Looking Towards the High Altar, Gloucester Cathedral, England
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This has been a place of Christian worship continuously for over 1300 years, since Osric, an Anglo-Saxon prince, founded a religious house here in 678-9 AD. At the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066, the monastery was not thriving and in 1072 King William I appointed Serlo, a monk from Mont St Michel in Normandy to be its Abbot. An energetic, charismatic and devout man, Serlo built up the wealth of the monastery to the point where in 1089 he was able to start building the magnificent abbey church which so
Thanks for commenting Joe. Re: people, they are the scourge of Architectural Photography. I shoot these mid-week. You have to set the camera up and wait for the moment. Steve
05-22-12 19:08
It is always hard to comment in your photos, because the (my) vocabulary is not rich enough to express the feelings seeing these masterpieces.
Wonderful as usual.
Just wondering how you are doing these images and is nobody (tourists or others) there to ruin the captures (whenever I'm going are tens of people - just hard to avoid them - must be something special in England....!)
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