On my frequent visits to churches to look at the architecture and history I often come across flowers.When a church is prepared for a wedding the nave aisle and various other places are decorated with floral arrangements.
Harvest festival, Christmas and Easter are other times when the building is beautified with flowers. Then there are the
church flower festivals that feature inventive displays, often on a theme, over a period of a week or so. But, these special occasions apart, flowers are invariably present in a church in smaller quantities every week of the year. These are usually supplied by parishioners, and arranged by volunteers on a "flower rota". The
font cover or base,
niches, the pulpit,
tombs, and especially the sanctuary are the common places for such arrangements, but window sills are also places where they are frequently found.
Today's photograph shows a bunch of tulips in an earthenware jar on a church window sill. My attention was drawn to it because February sunlight was streaming through the stained glass, colouring the ancient stone and transforming the colours of the flowers and leaves. Red blooms were tinged with blue and green, and the yellow/green of the flower stalks took on a darker hue bathed in the strongly coloured light . The word that came to my mind was "psychedelic", and I thought of the album covers, posters and graphic design of the late 1960s as I looked through the viewfnder and took my photograph.
photograph and text (c) T. Boughen
Camera: Canon
Mode: Aperture Priority
Focal Length: 45mm
F No: f6.3
Shutter Speed: 1/50
ISO: 250
Exposure Compensation: -1.0 EV
Image Stabilisation: On
3 comments:
The subject matter of your images always stimulates, but what amazes me is the depth and range of colours you achieve. Even your black and white photographs are more graphically 'coloured' than most of my polychromatic efforts.
Brilliant.
By the way, I like the new presentation format.
Thanks Pooter. Glad to hear you like the new "matted" look.
Interesting you should mention colour. I've spent a couple of days struggling with Blogger to try and make the posted images look more like they do on my computer. The software that powers Blogger seems to mute some colours after posting, and their forums have people making the same observation with little in the way of an easy fix forthcoming.
By the way, we were in your neck of the woods the other day and found the local church open for the first time. I didn't get any shots worth posting, but it was good to have a nosy round a building we've usually foud locked.
Regards,
Tony
Love the colours on this image.
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