Painted With Light [Elements of Design]
Uploaded: January 13, 2014 03:54:55
Winter is my favorite season to witness the sunlight through Washington National Cathedral's stained glass windows. Here, the (unseen) windows of the south clerestory cast their light on the adjacent rib clusters of the vaulted ceiling, just starting to spring up and away from the wall. I wanted a compressed composition of just light-washed ribs, so I used 200mm on the 70-300. I was fortunate to get access to a scaffolded platform situated 75 feet off the floor; the platform put me about 2 feet above the bottom edge of the large clerestory windows.
1/14 2nd Place - EOD
In grateful and loving memory of Rowan LeCompte, renowned stained glass artist, who designed nearly four dozen of the cathedral's 231 windows, including the 8 windows casting the beautiful colors in this image.
March 17, 1925 - February 11, 2014
Tammy M. Anderson
January 13, 2014
Joy Rector January 13, 2014
gorgeous, well done #10945080
Gail Sullivan
January 13, 2014
Linda D. Lester
January 13, 2014
Colette M. Metcalf January 13, 2014
A beauty!!!! #10945110Orsi January 13, 2014
Beautiful! #10945142
Martha R. Mazon
January 13, 2014
Loan Tran
January 13, 2014
JO ANN CLEVELAND January 13, 2014
Super image Chris, this is amazing!jo ann c. #10945259
Chris Budny
January 14, 2014
Ellen Hodges January 16, 2014
Strictly fabulous, Chris!! #10948154
Chris Budny
January 16, 2014
Kara L. Hendricks February 17, 2014
Chris, this is just gorgeous!! What a magnificent show of color and detail!! Best of luck in the contest! #10977859
Chris Budny
February 18, 2014
Peggy Pfister
February 18, 2014
Chris Budny
February 18, 2014
Donna La Mattino Pagakis February 24, 2014
Whooo hoooo!!! Congratulations, my friend!!! #10984658
Bob Cournoyer
February 24, 2014
Avril Young February 24, 2014
wow, stunning..wonderful photo.. #10984721
Chris Budny
February 24, 2014
Julianne Bradford February 24, 2014
So-o gorgeous!! Congrats Chris! #10984816Katarina Mansson February 24, 2014
Congratulations Chris on another success with this beauty! #10985017
Chris Budny
February 25, 2014
Usman M. Bajwa
February 26, 2014
UB. #10985763
Naomi Weiser February 26, 2014
wow, stunning! #10985946
Tammy M. Anderson
February 26, 2014
Lindley Johnson
February 26, 2014
Michele Peterson
February 26, 2014
Peggy Pfister
February 26, 2014
Terry A. Stoa February 26, 2014
Beautiful image, Chris. And a wonderful tribute following the photo description. Superb. #10987015
Chris Budny
February 27, 2014
Ellen Hodges February 27, 2014
Huge congrats and very best luck, Chris!! #10987282JO ANN CLEVELAND February 28, 2014
Bet we see this again, the judges surely are impressed and so am I!Congratulations Christopher!
jo ann c. #10988008
Michele Peterson
February 28, 2014
Jill Odice
February 28, 2014
Ken Smith
February 28, 2014
Tammy M. Anderson
February 28, 2014
Carol Eade
February 28, 2014
Peggy Pfister
February 28, 2014
Martha R. Mazon
February 28, 2014
Leslie McLain
February 28, 2014
Nancy Marie Ricketts February 28, 2014
Congrats! Chris, on your beautiful Gold winner!! #10988835
Deborah Lewinson
February 28, 2014
Thanks also for the interesting description and tribute!
Debby #10988891
Terry Cervi
February 28, 2014
Patti Coblentz March 01, 2014
This is my #2 favorite of your cathedral shots, too...well, they actually tie, in my book. Congratulations, Chris...this is a spectacular image! And I know how you look so forward to this winter light...well done!! #10989188Colette M. Metcalf March 01, 2014
Congrats on your WIN!!! #10989240Jackie M. Sajewski March 01, 2014
Congratulations on your Gold winner. Love the image. Amazing #10989318
Chris Budny
March 01, 2014
Ellen Hodges March 01, 2014
Huge congrats on a gorgeous winner, Chris!!! #10989472
Lindley Johnson
March 01, 2014
JO ANN CLEVELAND March 01, 2014
And now...Congratulations on this fabulous GOLD 2nd Place winner Chris!jo ann c. #10990005
Chris Budny
March 02, 2014
Gail Sullivan
March 02, 2014
David Phalen March 02, 2014
BIG Congrats on going GOLD!! #10990837
Carol Flisak
March 02, 2014
Chris Budny
March 02, 2014
Phyllis H. Burchett March 03, 2014
Fabulous Chris, congrats on your win! Lovely tribute as well. #10991791
Linda D. Lester
March 03, 2014
Usman M. Bajwa
March 04, 2014
UB. #10992645
Chris Budny
March 04, 2014
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