rh1944
14-05-2008, 16:16
Another attempt to learn how to use this lens. Now with something a lot larger but even more static - St Catherine's Chapel: a derelict church.
From the road it looks like this - which is why I have driven past it a thousand times without seeing the chapel.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2420/2491846987_8c70d6ebe0.jpg
You can stop the car and walk through the wooden style and be all alone with the building and its grounds.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2117/2492667848_1597369c2b.jpg
There's a very small cemetery - and this is one of the gravestones.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2416/2491848645_f72c79d465.jpg
This is one of the broken arches where a window used to be at. It's at the tower end of the chapel.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2395/2491850233_79d1957aff.jpg
This is part of the end wall and the arch of the window furthest from the tower.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3001/2492709526_58a50b8417.jpg
Here's a view from the other side.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3276/2492671622_ab0a3f0fba.jpg
I've not seen anyone else taking photos here - you can have the building to yourself. I've only tried in the early morning, so the afternoon will be a very different set of pictures.
Working with the nifty is a lot different from all the other lenses I have used of late. They are all zooms and I think that it is easier to compose a shot with a zoom - happy to be wrong about that.
rh1944
From the road it looks like this - which is why I have driven past it a thousand times without seeing the chapel.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2420/2491846987_8c70d6ebe0.jpg
You can stop the car and walk through the wooden style and be all alone with the building and its grounds.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2117/2492667848_1597369c2b.jpg
There's a very small cemetery - and this is one of the gravestones.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2416/2491848645_f72c79d465.jpg
This is one of the broken arches where a window used to be at. It's at the tower end of the chapel.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2395/2491850233_79d1957aff.jpg
This is part of the end wall and the arch of the window furthest from the tower.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3001/2492709526_58a50b8417.jpg
Here's a view from the other side.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3276/2492671622_ab0a3f0fba.jpg
I've not seen anyone else taking photos here - you can have the building to yourself. I've only tried in the early morning, so the afternoon will be a very different set of pictures.
Working with the nifty is a lot different from all the other lenses I have used of late. They are all zooms and I think that it is easier to compose a shot with a zoom - happy to be wrong about that.
rh1944