This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge theme is “Contrast”.
Here are a couple of high-contrast pictures taken at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., without flash.
Rose Window, National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
Altar at the National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
I took these photos in January of 2007. (The Cathedral wasn’t nearly this dark, to the human eye. But the light coming through the stained glass and the additional lights around the altar made for greater contrast in a very large interior space than the camera could deal with.)
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These are gorgeous! It’s just the kind of thing that sometimes happens with a camera that ends up giving you an unexpected treasure.
Yes – it’s interesting how a limitation (the camera having a smaller range from total darkness to maximum brightness than the eye) can give you effects like this. I’m glad you like them.
I really like the top photo, the colours are stunning.
Thank you!
Stain glass! It looks great!
Glad you like it!
Stained glass, old cathedrals – love them, and your photos! Great entry!
Thank you – it’s a lovely church.
Brilliant pictures love em lots. nice take on theme… 😉
Thank you! I was considering some desert photos – the dry air makes for very dramatic contrasts between the shaded and unshaded side of objects – but thought these might be more striking.
How beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
You’re welcome! 😀
Nice shots
Thanks.
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Oh wonderful pictures, I love stain glass windows old or modern. How old is this cathedral?
Not very, actually – apparently the foundation was laid in 1907! (I got this from a timeline on their web site – http://www.nationalcathedral.org/about/timeline.shtml)
Some of the windows are very modern, even abstract, but my photos of those didn’t turn out as well. Partly a question of the angle the pictures were taken from, I think.
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