This is Bow Church, properly St Mary's Church, Stratford Bow, which dates from 1311, and is celebrated in the nursery rhyme "Oranges and Lemons" with "the great bell of Bow". This is the bottom part of the tower which mainly dates from the 15th Century. The top part of the tower was restored in the 1950s following bomb damage.
This is for the b&w bookclub and is using HDR in b&w for week 5 of the b&w bookclub - http://365project.org/discuss/themes-competitions/21304/bw-bc-week-5-feb-24-28 - I did that manually in GIMP using three different shots taken at -1EV, 0 and +1EV - and as they were hand held shots they needed some lining up to get this to work.
Thank you all for looking, particularly as I'm dumping and running at the moment and not having a chance to catch up on your pictures.
Shane this is a great find. The door and the window play off each other really well and the textures from the stone and the decorative elements of the door and window make this an excellent shot.
I like the shadows all over the building, It makes it a little creepy....maybe because the photo is in black and white makes the shadows more like tentacles.
@scarybird yes - in a long thin churchyard, which makes taking some pictures challenging. Apparently, it's not this Bow church that you need to be born within the sound of the bells, but another one.
