cathedral

Taken a couple of weeks ago but after work and cooking I had to go and help paint backdrops for a theatre group so no chance at all to take a photo. This is looking up the front of the St Magnus Cathedral, which was built in 1137 by the Vikings. They weren't a bad bunch really . I liked this shot as it looked like it was a path

[George]

the color of the stone is amazing. really like the perspective

[Ingrid Budge]

@gwhit123 Thanks George - it's red sandstone from one of the other islands, and it is that colour

[thirtysevenways]

Lovely colour. You take wonderful photos with your iPhone Ingrid. I will have to use mine more.

[Sheila G]

Such an unusual shot of the Cathedral, but still so recognisable!

[Annick]

Wow! love the color, the darkness, the perspective. Realy a beautiful shot!

[Gail]

Oh yeah, does look like a path. nice picture

[Heidi]

This is such a great perspective! It just seems to vanish to nowhere.... Nice!!

[Lisa Stein]

Beautiful color and texture in the bricks. Great perspective. I like the path feel, too.

[Riartisan]

I though it was path too..nice pick of angle.

[Angela]

Nice pov.

[Paul "Snapchap" Everest]

Strong lines and I agree about looking like a path!

[kirpppu]

Really cool colour!

[Abhijit]

super cool pov

[Michael]

Hmmm...who knew the Vikings built church's? Not me;-) Nice shot...it is path like, showing the way perhaps?

[tanara]

Nice shot.

[Jan Penny]

The colours are great in this and it looks a little mysterious, not sure where the 'path' is going.

[Ingrid Budge]

@thirtysevenways Thank you, it gets very frustrating though I am definately thinking of a proper digi camera

@sheilag Thanks Sheila, it was at night and everything else was very poor quality

[Ingrid Budge]

@annick @gailmmeek @heidit @pflaume @riartisan @3whiteroses @steampowered @kirpppu @abhijit @ouimo @janpenny Thank s for your comments :)

@studiombkcom They were a kind of vicious bunch but they left some pretty amazing buildings -also some graffiti - in runes!

[Deni]

This is amazing, the colour of the stone is superb, and I thought at first it was a pathway too.

[Wendy]

Fabulous perspective -- love the way it disappears into black. Amazing to think of how old those stones are...

[AutomaticSlim]

I'm very partial to this sort of image where it's easy to deceive yourself that what's vertical is in fact horizontal. This looks like a diving board over a void.

[Ingrid Budge]

@denidouble @wendyhgill Thank you !
@automaticslim That's probably why I like so much of your work - I like your trickery and trying to guess how you've done something!

[AutomaticSlim]

Ingrid, have you come across @suzannehunt yet? She keeps a rather low profile ... most of the time I'm bowled over by the sheer assurance of her compositional instincts. Anyway, she has a knack for pulling off the horizontal / vertical mindbending trick, usually with architectural subjects: http://365project.org/suzannehunt/365/2012-12-29
but not always: http://365project.org/suzannehunt/365/2013-01-22

[Ingrid Budge]

@automaticslim Just checked her out - thank you for that, amazing work and I'm looking forward to seeing more of hers

[AutomaticSlim]

:-) Once in a while Suzanne posts links to videos - if you've any interest in avant garde performance art and music they're *always* worth clicking.

[Anne]

Just love the way this disappears up in to the darkness of the night sky.

[Konrad Koszucki]

I Like this one. Just It.I like it for all these reasons that were written before by others . Colors are great. My fav.