NEW YORK, NEW YORK – I went to Morningside Heights today to meet my daughter for lunch (she’s a student at Columbia Law School). It was pouring rain. I arrived a bit early and ducked into the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine. A really interesting subject – I’ll be back in better light. Here’s a link to St. John the Divine; here’s a Wikipedia link St. John the Unfinished. Construction continues on this vast structure, which was started in 1892.
ANCRAMDALE, NEW YORK – We drove over to Columbia County in New York for dinner with some friends. Here is the Ancramdale Presbyterian Church. It’s a bit odd with the steeple lacking the actual steeple. The town history says that the church was built in 1847 but there are no other details. Ancram history.
Tidbits from the town website: “The name was derived from the Livingston homestead in Anchoram, Scotland. Robert Livingston, first Lord of the Manor was the son of a Scotch clergyman, born in Anchoram, Scotland in 1654. The town comprises 27,000 of the total 160,000 acres the Livingston family had held from the initial grant by the English Crown in 1686. Philip Livingston, grandson of Robert, founded the first iron works in 1743, the only one of its kind on the banks of the Roeliff Jansen Kill and in the NY Colony.”
Hasselblad H3d 39.
QUITO ECUADOR – Baptismal in the Iglesia de San Roque, Quito. Built in 1596 and extensively renovated in the 20th Century.
Leica M9 and 24mm Summilux.
QUITO ECUADOR – The space above the a side isle in the Basilica del Voto Nacional in Quito. Wikipedia includes the following description:
“The basilica is the most important work of Neogothic Ecuadorian architecture and is one of the most representative of the Americas. It is the largest neogothic basilica in the New World. The building is noted for its grotesques in the form of native Ecuadorian animals, such as armadillos, iguana, and Galapagos tortoises.
“The Basilica is 140 meters long and 35 meters wide. It is 30 meters high in the sanctuary, 15 meters high in the votive chapels, 74 meters high in the transept, and 115 meters high in the two frontal towers. In the sanctuary, there are 14 bronze images representing 11 apostles and three evangelists. In the crypt, there is a pantheon containing the remains of several heads of state.”
Leica M9 and 50mm Sumicron Asph. Three images stitched.
NEW PRESTON, CONNECTICUT – There are two Congregational Church buildings in New Preston. For most of the year the congregation meets in a lovely classical New England structure on a hill near the center of the village, which I photographed at sunrise on November 7, 2009. Here’s a link: New Preston Church During the summer months the congregation meets in a stone building a few miles away.
Taken with a Leica M9 and 35mm Summicron Asph. lens. Three frames stitched with Autopano Pro. Perspective touched up in Photoshop.
CORNWALL BRIDGE, CONNECTICUT – St. Bridget Church. A Catholic church. Late 19th Century gothic revival, The is very little information online, except that this congregation recently celebrated its 125th anniversary. I took this because of the unusual point of view – the image is taken from a highway bridge that runs above the church. The view is generally obscured by trees except for one spot where this shot is possible. Because of the limited choice in angles there was no way to eliminate the utility wires. May reaction at the time was “The wires are there. We’ll just make them part of the image.” I’m afraid that without a pole or some other indication that they are intentional, they look like a mistake.
MORRIS, CONNECTICUT – Episcopal Church, Morris Connecticut. This is one of my continuing series of churches of Litchfield County.
