My Brisbane 10 - St Stephen's Cathedral

I had an ulterior motive for selecting todays pic. One of my (and my wife's) addictions is genealogy and as I said in my profile, one of my goals was to include a pic from each of my interests. My grandparents were married in St Stephens Cathedral in 1895 - he was from Prussia and she was Irish. Now that's an interesting mix. I can now tick off the genealogy box.

[Poppo Livy]

My wife and I have travelled all over Australia, England Ireland and Scotland as well as places in Poland and Germany photographing the various places where our ancestors were hatched, matched, toiled and despatched from. But we had not photographed the two places in Brisbane that we needed - until today. One of them was where we were married. "Nah - that's just Brisbane. We can get that anytime." Well now we have

[Dione Giorgio]

Awesome pov. Love all the modern architecture surrounding this lovely church.

[Diane]

What a great idea Terry! Lovely capture of the cathedral, very impressive. I think it is important to get an understanding of where your ancestors come from!

[sally agnew]

Have always loved this Cathedral nestled amongst the skyscrapers in Brissy.

[Candace]

Amazing the church that defies modern times and still stands in all it's glory! Awesome!

[Tracey]

Love this Poppo the modern and the past…fav

[Kane Arlow]

Fantastic pov, the church looks small amongst the larger buildings, but is still grand.
I'm glad you ticked off another box, sometimes we can get caught up in life (me included) and not make time for something we mean to do.

[Islandgirl]

Love the modern archeticture and the cathedral!

[Rick Schies]

Such a lovely old style building in between modern world

[Denise Wood]

Hope it never loses it beauty by being swallowed up by modern architecture. Great idea to photograph your heritage, Well done.

[john graham]

Beautiful old church Poppo...

[Graham Thresher]

A magnificent capture.

[CINDY JOHNSON]

i want to go , such a wonderful shot

[Helen Michelle D]

Brilliant shot and subject too. I love building growing around history!

[Shelley]

What a beautiful capture. I'm into genealogy as well. I have an ancestor that came over on the Mayflower and can't seem to get before then.

[Poppo Livy]

@sangwann @dianeburns @hermann @ribbet9 @tracelee @karlow75 @radiogirl @digitalrn @gilbertwood @tellefella @thresheg @pittcj17 @helenmichelled @moxy Thanks everyone. I'll post a pic of another church later today. It is one of our favourites from our travels in the UK. Watch out for it - it wont be what you are thinking right now :-)

[Poppo Livy]

@moxy Hi Shelley, People always ask how far have we gone back but of course there is no simple answer to the question. For a couple of twigs of the family tree, we only managed the early 1800s but for a few others, we have got back to the 1200s and 1300s. It is so addictive and a lot of fun (and a lot of hard work).

[Andrew]

I really like how you have displayed the contrast between the old and new buildings. thanks for sharing your story.

[Poppo Livy]

@andrewkru Thanks Andrew. I organised for the council to put those buildings up to make the shot more interesting

[Denise (lyndemc)]

Wonderful contrasts here between the modern and the traditional. And very interesting to hear about your family tree. Loved your line about 'hatched, matched...' Well worded!

[Shirley Banford]

Excellent backdrop for this beauty. Awesome capture.

[Lee-Ann]

Beautiful church against the modern builidings....did a good job with the council....lol. Nice story,

[Kerry McCarthy]

Great shot - I love the contrast of the cathedral with the modern buildings. Wonderful story too. Nice interior shot too. Cathedrals are beautiful.

[Babs]

Great mix of the old and the new.

[Poppo Livy]

@onewing @mccarth1 @leestevo @sabanford @lyndemc Thanks everyone. Hatched matched and despatched was a term that people used to use about looking up the births, deaths and marriages in the newspaper. We were also interested in where they lived and worked - or toiled.

[Keith Porteous]

Cool shot and pov