NF-SOOC-September - Day 7: Church of St. Etienne

A second posting today for NF-SOOC-September - you can read more about it here: http://365project.org/discuss/themes-competitions/23475/back-to-basics-who-s-up-for-a-big-challenge-in-september

This is the church of St. Etienne in Chinon, Indre et Loire: there was a church on this site from the beginning of the 11C but the present building was completed in 1480.

I wanted to include this for my challenge today because it was a bit of a juggle getting a balanced exposure where detail was retained in the interior features but the stained glass windows weren't (too) blown out.

This was taken handheld at ISO 3200 - rewards viewing on black.

[Joy Maguire]

wow what a beautiful church. You captured it well

[Christine]

Beautiful

[Ian Watts]

Wow. Beautiful lighting. Fantastic capture. Fav.

[Maggiemae]

Had to look at this a bit closer - the lighting is rather special as is the brickwork in this gorgeous church!

[Joan Robillard]

What a beautiful church. Love the lighting.

[gloria jones]

Fabulous arches, pov, light, texture. Fav

[Graeme Stevens]

Superb again, love the lighting. Looks like a lovely church

[Helene]

Tres jolie photo

[Tom]

Very beautiful, 50mm and no processing great shot. I must confess that I tweaked my past photo a little bit for I thought just no cropping so today's photo will be straight from camera; either jpg or raw.

[Decima F]

What a pretty church and so light. Passeedd through Chinon a couple of years ago but missed this.

[Janiskay]

Beautiful Church and you captured it so well. Love the arches and the Stained glass. Beautiful lighting in those arches.

[Richard Sayer]

@princessm Easily missed Decima - there's so much to see in Chinon... it's a regular haunt of ours.

[Shanne]

lovely capture of the church

[Kane Arlow]

Fantastic shot, it is a great effort to pull this off in camera. It's a lovely church too.

[Kate]

Love the aisle leading to the stained glass. Looks beautiful on the black, very cool lighting. Sounds like lighting was an issue that you conquered so well!

[Lorraine Hardy]

beautiful detail and well composed

[Elfur]

Beautiful capture!

[Rachel]

Wonderful composition and architecture, fabulous

[Margaret Obey]

Love this Richard fav

[Fisher Family]

Love this picture. Fav Katharine

[Lee]

I like the light you've captured here, especially from the stained glass window.

[Kathleen Hinkaty]

The light is wonderful!