Spooks at the windows!! Nicely seen Tara.

Super brickwork and light in this beautiful shot. :-)

beautiful !

Wonderful capture.

Love the lighting in this capture. :)

excellent

Beautiful setting and capture.

How lovely!

Very cool capture of the sunset

Very cool use of shadows and sun. Like the way the room is partically lit.

Amazing how you see through and capture a scene within a scene; very beautifully captured!

Beautiful work Tara, just a gorgeous study, well done you!

Wonderful idea and capture!!!

Superb shot !

Superb capture Tara. God Bless.

cool shot

Very good find. Bravo.

Splendid capture! :)

Just love that brickwork and light! Clive

Very nice image Hugs Susan~

That was very well spotted and captured.

This is a perfect image. :)))))) Love the sweetness of the sun coming through the windows and the beauty of the sunset. :)))) Most excellent capture. :))))) I also like the lighting on the brick. :))))) Thank you for sharing all of the beauty you see. :)))) Carry A Smile In Your Heart :))))))

Excellent POV.. This works so well Tara.. Lighting is perfect.. Rob

The lighting is simply spectacular, Tara! What a shot!!

You see why I talk about being 'slow'? This is my 6th image and it's been over an hour! I don't know, I just keep looking back at the image and then to my words, and then back and forth...I can't get any speed here, and my words don't come 'musically' like yours do. (Your comments are jewels, all of them, you even mentioned "oracles" in your last comment, which hit a chord right off & made me see things I hadn't even thought about.) I'm slow. I'm freakin' slow. So where someone else might have done 18 images in this time, I did 6. (And I get slower with each year...) Well that being said, I'll finish, for now, with this. I'll be back, both in yours & Bill's gallery...and I'll get to more of your writing next week... Among your many explorations into architecture---all of which seem eminently 'truthful'---this one made a point for me. I hope I can make it back. It's that it's of a typical wall with the usual details of a complex architectural facade. But at the same time, it's about all that takes place inside the structure. The facade is just the 'backdrop'---even though it's the foreground & not the back. (I'll explain that "truthful" in a second.) The backdrop: We see the Romanesque arches over the windows---ok, with a slight Renaissance touch because the white bricks in alternation (it lightens the original medieval Romanesque considerably, and makes it quite graceful). And we see pilasters (kind-of pilasters) with those "blind arches" (the sets of two arches each, that end in a wall and are thus 'blind'---just in case you didn't know the term already. And the multiple brickworks (different hued bricks, nicely chosen), and so on: All these are part of this rather classical & delicate facede. But the piece is more about light & shadow inside the windows, thus the facade is really a backdrop. That's how it felt to me everytime I saw this. The light travels on a wonderful angle, filling a whole window on the right, then half a window in the middle, the tapering off to a third of a window on the left. It's a study in light inside a building---and yet presented with the complexity outside the building. (Again, I hope I'm clear here. It's so hard to explicate detail clearly!) But see, that's why I say "truthful": Because these kinds of juxtapositions fill your architectural shots, and that's what architecture is all about. It's not just about an imposing "single facade": It's that architecture is a collection (mostly) of countless interactions, of ever-morphing, speaking, singing, contrapuntal music, interacting not only with itself but with everything around (yes? I hope I'm clear now)---including the sun, moon, trees, people, etc. This is a capture of a few of those interactions. So, encased in a meticulous facade, we have the universe entering, and then moving & bouncing off of surfaces inside, and then going out other windows...(As you probably know, "facade" is cognate with "face": You give us the face, and then what it's 'thinking' inside. This is what architecture does. It's too easy to just capture a monumental facade. It's moving & morphing & talking. A beautiful capture, and truthful. You're a natural at this, and you've done this squared off structure many services so far. A very shining work.