View From The Roadside

Detail from Marc Chagall Window, originally uploaded by Liam O’Neill.

Last weekend I went to Selsey hoping to take some long exposure pictures of the waves on the beach. Unfortunately the sun was quite strong, and even with a polariser I couldn’t get anything like a long enough shutter speed. The idea was to turn the breaking water into a ghostly misty fog over the stones. All I got was stationary foam. I’ll have to try again on an overcast evening, when there is less light about.

Giving up on the beach, I went to Chichester to see the Cathedral, somewhere I hadn’t been before. The bright sun was causing problems here too though, creating dark detail-free shadows along with the brightly lit cathedral that made taking pictures outside fairly pointless. Inside, after the wedding party had left, the bright sun finally became useful, as it streamed through the stained glass windows, throwing lovely coloured patches on the stonework. Chichester has a feel far more like a working church than the more touristy Salisbury or Winchester Cathedrals. While it has some fine decorative touches, and a fine collection of religious art, it’s still a good deal plainer than the other two. The picture above is a part of a window painted by Marc Chagall, a very well known artist famous for his stained glass windows amongst other things.

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