Now This is a Doorway! - for Tara & Bill by Meisiekind

Photography • Architecture • posted on Jun 17, 2010

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This is the main doorway of the Westminster Abbey in London! I photographed this way back in 2007! I would have loved to include the actual doors, but there were a gezillion tourists blocking the view! I didn't know what to upload and was fiddling through my old files when I came upon this shot! It screamed Bill & Tara!!! Oh - and do zoom!!! Thank you for popping in and for your support in comments and favs on my upload "Blue Bellied Roller". Stay well! Hugs, Carin xx ps We are experiencing a truckload of difficulty with Internet connection at the moment. Apparently the incoming and outgoing broadband is used first to broadcast the Soccer to the world, which is fair enough, but it doesn't help the HUGE frustration!!!

Comments (44)

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wysiwig

1:11AM | Fri, 18 June 2010

Stunning workmanship and a wonderful capture. I share you frustration about people whose only purpose in being born seems to be ruining your shots. I once engaged in a footrace with another person who seemed determined to reach a statue of Ramsis at Abu Simbel and ruin my shot. I won. As for the World Cup, at least folks in your part of world are excited about it. We have had a well known conservative pundit speak darkly about 'soccer' and how the rest of the world seeks to 'jam it down our throats' so that we will accept it, the better to bring socialism to America. I am not kidding. Never a dull moment.

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debbielove

10:08AM | Fri, 18 June 2010

Yep! That's a door when they knew how to build doors! It is on the BIG side! Got to find a 'door' for Bill and Tara! lol Great find from the files! Love it.. BIG England game tonight... 'Three Lions on their shirt.. etc!' Rob

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beachzz

11:49AM | Fri, 18 June 2010

They did know how to make a door, didn't they?? And yep---perfect for T&B!!!

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auntietk

11:50AM | Fri, 18 June 2010

Now THAT is a door!! Wow. What detail! It's totally over the top without being over the top, if you know what I mean! LOL! (Well, and I supposed it's over the top of the door as well, so there you go.) :P Excellent shot! I blew this up to an insane size (400%, I think) and it was still easy to see. Gorgeous work, Dierbaar! Dankie! :*

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0rest4wicked

8:28AM | Sat, 19 June 2010

Glorious detail!!!

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anahata.c

8:41AM | Sat, 19 June 2010

lol, great that you thought of bill & tara, I certainly remember tara shooting every door in sight when she was in chicago. But she didn't see one like this! As architectural capture, it's very sensitively done, you have to know that. I did architectural rendering years ago---ie, drawing architecture, which I say only because "rendering" today means 3D---and I learned very quickly how much there is to capture in facades like this. You got a lot of high detail in a very broad shot (as these entryways are quite large), and you also got a lot of clarity in the several rows of religious figures sitting in their rather formal poses. The shade & tones in the upper two rows are beautiful. And your central composition---allowing the madonna & child to show so well, as well as the big deity figure atop---is perfect for the mass of statuary & carving of this door. And you gave us the beautiful blue-purplish tint of the lower portion (I don't know if that's tarnished brass or what), which gives the image its fundament. A really fine architectural capture, and a great gift for our door-hungry friends out in the Pacific Northwest. Before you said it was London, I thought: Wow! You guys got some heavy frickin' doors out there. Really fine work, Carin.

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