sanctuary window

Thank you Tainia. It is a beautiful window and totally irresistable to a photographer, even one of my limited ability.
So pleased you like it.

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Hi Elaine. The timing was fortuitous as the rehearsal was at 5pm last Friday (24th Oct) and its an east facing window. But obviously there was sufficient light shining through. And nothing has been done, post production wise, except boosting the dpi. So it as it was.

I’m rapt that you like it, as I really value your opinion.

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Hi Isa. Thank you so much for your wonderful and detailed comment…enthusiastic in its praise. And thank you for favouriting it. This is all totally overwhelming and I can’t express how much it means to me.
I don’t know if its baroque, though I’ll find out for you. I suspect it was imported from Scotland, as the Campbells were immigrants…to Australia! Sorry about not making that clear in my description…think I’d better go back and alter that bit.
Canberra is actually our National Capital and ACT stands for Australian Capital Territory.

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Thank you CJ. So very glad you like it. It was really easy to shoot actually…just pointed the camera and squeezed the shutter release…no tripod.

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Thank you very much Marion for your praise…I’ve now had to guesses or suggestions about its dating…baroque and gothic! So I think a little more research is in order!!
I suspect it is more than likely to have been imported from Scotland or somewhere in the U.K. as there wouldn’t have been anyone in Australia producing such windows at the time the church was built.
So glad you like it.

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Hi Di…yeah…often it is just the wonderful colours and design of these windows, if not the history, that attracts me to them.

For I think they are works of art in their own right!
Thank you for your comment and I’m so glad you like it.

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really? I had no idea raymond…but I’m very pleased you like my work. Taking photos gives me great self-indulgent pleasure and that it also pleases others is not only a bit overwhelming, but a very great humbling joy.

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Thanks heaps Julie for your kind words. They and you keep me going.

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Thank you very much Jason. I love shooting stained glass windows…I think its something about the light, colours and, of course, design. I’m so glad you agree with me on this one.

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Hi Penny, I agree with you about the art of creating stained glass. Leadlighting has become popular in recnet years and many confuse the two art forms, but they are indeed different, with the latter being far easier.
However, there are still a few souls who create masterpieces. I’ve shot a few examples you might be interested in, such as creation out of darkness & resurrection which was made in memory of the minister of a church who died of melanoma. I’m also about to upload one called crucifixion.

But thank you for y our compliment. I think I’m beginning to get the hang of taking shots of them now.

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Wow!!! coming from such an awesome professional as yourself I take your compliment very much to heart and seriously. You are very kind. I agree with you about the craftsmanship and the colours they have incorporated and used.
But I do know there was a massive restoration job on the interior of this church and windows some years back, so that may have given the colours and window itself a new life and lift.

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PS
apologies for missing your comment and not replying for so long.

Thank you Isa. YOu are exceedingly kind and generous!

But what group featured it? i haven’t caught up on that one!
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Oh, and I understand your confusion…Combarro and Canberra are very similar.

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What a wonderful comment. Thank you very much nanagahma.
I’m so please you like it and also appreciate the historical background.

I found it fascinating when I was researching it.

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Hi Wendy,
I’m so sorry I hadn’t noticed you sneak in here and leave a comment almost a month ago! It is/was a superb window which totally distracted me from the rehearsal, or threatened to, until I took a photo of it. As we were away from home for the wedding (and yes it was a tremendous success, a great afternoon/evening for everyone and the beginning of a very happy life together, if the first few months are anything to go by!!) it was quite a few days before I could download it from my camera.
When I saw it I was rapt with how it turned out. So thank you. Maybe it was a sign!!

THank you so very much John. I thought it was quite stunning and simply couldn’t resist it. I must confess to have a real weakness for such windows, these incredible works, a d love shooting them. And the composition etc is a cinch really, and is really a credit to the craftsman and artist, the creators of the window.

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Many thanks for dropping by! I’m so glad you like it.

Hi Rhonda, how lovely of you to come in here and leave a comment. Have no idea how you stumbled on it. But however it was, its lovely to see your happy smiling face and read you wonderful words.

I so pleased you like this shot. This was the window in the church where our son got married last year. There were married right in front of it!!!

I think I’ll have to go around and take some more photos of stained glass windows. I love them and they’re so easy to capture…the colours, light and design lend themselves beautifully.
So, maybe, just for you, I’ll try to keep up the ‘great work’. lol!..xxxx

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WOW!!!!!! REALLY?
Thank you so much for letting me know Lisa. I’ll have to go and actually have a look!
the response to my shots of these windows simply stuns and amazes me. I find them so easy to take as they are so wonderful in their design, colours and lighting that all I have to do is point the camera and shoot them! Then, it seems, they can give many people such delight…and that is very rewarding. So being featured is more than a compliment!

I must say thank you..xxxxOo

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Hi Heather. Thank you for your wonderful words! I agree that they are breathtaking, simply stunning actually and a delight to photograph. But I find it very easy and can’t quite get my head around why everyone seems to think they’re hard to shoot! Maybe its my camera that makes it easy?
I just can’t resist them…there’s something that just draws me to get my camera out as soon as I set eyes on one!! lol..xxxx

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Hi Phil! I am simply blown away by your wonderful effusive comment. You obviously love such windows, and, like me, recognise & value the craft and art of old in them. I think I am fortunate in living somewhere with a number of old churches with such windows…there’s a risk of under appreciating them as a result. But I think my love of them outweighs complacency.
So often people call the coloured glass windows you describe ‘stained glass’ which of course they’re not. They are simply lead lighting. But of course ones such as this are the genuine article where the designs, faces, etc are actually stained on the various pieces of glass before being assembled in place. I fear that is a rapidly dying art!!

I do have some more modern stained glass windows, though, which you might also find interesting. If you want to you could check out my collection of them.

Thank you for your wonderful and affirming words. I really appreciate them…xxxxOo

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Thank you my friend! :D
So nice to hear from you and I love your new pic!!
I’m typing this at Heathrow airport waiting for our flight to Norway tonight (yes, ok, I confess, I am name dropping), having missed it first thing this morning….hence hopping onto the bubble to pass time.

Look forward to catching up with you when we’re back and to posting some shots from our trip…xxxx

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THanks….no credit to me though….its all in the window, with some help from the steady shot feature on my camera. I merely held it, pointed and shot..

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