Southwark Cathedral

[AlexR!]

Popped into Southwark Cathedral last week after Christmas shopping in Borough Market.

One of the roof looking up:

Southwark cathedral roof by AlexR!, on Flickr

One to get more of an extent of the roof:

Southwark cathedral nave by AlexR!, on Flickr

And there was a practice for what seemed to be the Christmas service going on. So I left in some heads and bodies as I thought in this case they added context (though I did remove some in the centre seating):

Southwark cathedral choir practice by AlexR!, on Flickr

Grateful, as ever, for comments and suggestions.

[ST-EOS]

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Nice series Alex well captured the first one will get Tigger excited

I've never been inside but have walked past it on many occasions whilst walking to work.

[Tigger]

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LOL... yep first one made me go and grab a beer nice work..

I like the second also the third....the heads NEED to go, along with the people, people do spoil a good church LOL.. also the last Alex, I think the verticals need a tweek

Still nice work, but don't make a habit of it its my niche

[tesarver]

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A very well done set Alex

Tom

[Stan]

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first two are excellent but the people in the third do rather spoil that one

Stan

[AlexR!]

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Thank you Peter, Ian, Tom and Stan.
Peter, it is worth popping in, a very accessible cathedral, just pay £1 for a 'photo permit'. And yes, the trouble with any building like this nowadays is that I am racked with 'I bet Tigger would get something decent from here' pressure.
Ian, I can't believe I missed the verticals in the last one. I can only think because I processed the longer shot just before it, which I had consciously left the verticals as was, that part of my li'l brain had switched off.
And to Ian and Stan, normally I'd absolutely agree on the people (they've all been hacked out of the second by cropping), but to me for the third the choir practice and their view of the cathedral was integral to my intent of the image.

[pelliott1954]

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I like the symmetry of these sort of shots, have to agree with Stan on the 3rd shot

Paul

[ColytonJohn]

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The first one is so nice it made me go "Oooh!" then check to see if Tigger had changed his forum name and avatar

Yes the first one is excellent
The second has some cropping, fringing and vertical issues but still a fine shot.
The third has some vertical issues but it's the foreground people that lets it down for me.

Still, a nice set

Cheers,
John

[rcarca]

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Great set Alex!

At the end of the day Cathedrals are only there for people to worship... remove the people and what have you got? I admire the architectural perspective, but I also embrace the human element. Humans built it, worship in it, take photographs in it, sit and contemplate in it, gawp in it. Huh... people are important too.

Just thought I would chuck in a "Devil's Advocate" perspective there as well...

Richard

[paul linton]

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Great set Alex!

At the end of the day Cathedrals are only there for people to worship... remove the people and what have you got? I admire the architectural perspective, but I also embrace the human element. Humans built it, worship in it, take photographs in it, sit and contemplate in it, gawp in it. Huh... people are important too.

Just thought I would chuck in a "Devil's Advocate" perspective there as well...

Richard

Agree with Richard a little bit, in that the people add rather than spoil the shot we have 2 images without any people so nice to see one with

Paul

[AlexR!]

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Paul, John, Richard, Paul, thanks for your considered thoughts and comments, much appreciated. So as well as kicking myself for not sorting the verticals on the 2nd, I somehow also missed the purple fringing, something I normally get a bit overly fanatical about. I clearly wasn't with it that day.
But, having taken all your opinions into consideration, in this case, the people are staying in the third. So there.