Author Topic: Photobomb. Post a photo/any photo and I will Hi5 you! (Read 62459 times)

franksolich · « **Reply #175 on:** December 23, 2012, 01:59:11 PM »

Durham Cathedral.

Also designed as a castle to guard against the Scots across the river.

The bishop of Durham was always named a prince, part of the royal court (even if of low lineage), so as to ensure his loyalty to London.

franksolich · « **Reply #176 on:** December 23, 2012, 02:02:37 PM »

Coventry Cathedral, dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel.

This was my least-favorite cathedral in England. They purposely built it as "modern art" rather than the way it'd been before it was destroyed by bombing in 1940. I think they would've done better to simply try to replicate the medieval original.

franksolich · « **Reply #177 on:** December 23, 2012, 02:05:07 PM »

Liverpool Cathedral.

It has the second-longest apse in the world, after St. Peter's in Rome.

It's not medieval or anything; most of it was put up during the 1800s, the Victorian era; Liverpool hardly existed in medieval times.

CG6468 · « **Reply #178 on:** December 23, 2012, 02:07:22 PM »

franksolich · « **Reply #179 on:** December 23, 2012, 02:09:20 PM »

^^^proof that even in the midst of war and destruction and death, God Is.

franksolich · « **Reply #180 on:** December 23, 2012, 02:13:14 PM »

I got a little bothered when visiting Winchester Cathedral when a choirboy irreverently placed the core of an apple he'd been eating atop the effigy of on the tomb of Stephen Gardiner, a Tudor-era bishop of Winchester.

franksolich · « **Reply #181 on:** December 23, 2012, 02:14:31 PM »

^^^the most perfect church possible, York Minster.

franksolich · « **Reply #182 on:** December 23, 2012, 02:17:41 PM »

Westminster Cathedral, not to be confused with Westminster Abbey, which isn't a cathedral.

When built in 1905, so as to not "compete" with the Norman and Gothic architecture of the established Anglican Church, the Catholics decided to put up something entirely different.

It's modeled after Santa Sophia in Constantinople. On the inside, it even looks Arabic.

franksolich · « **Reply #183 on:** December 23, 2012, 02:19:37 PM »

Westminster Cathedral wasn't touched by a bomb during the London Blitz of 1940 because, unfortunately, its tower provided a landmark for the Luftwaffe, guiding them where to turn so as to bomb other areas.

franksolich · « **Reply #184 on:** December 23, 2012, 02:25:45 PM »

^^^the Nebraska National Guard fighting prairie fires near here the summer of 2012.

I believe our colleague dutch508 was also fighting them further west at the same time.

The fires were all over the roof of Nebraska.

franksolich · « **Reply #185 on:** December 23, 2012, 02:27:28 PM »

^^^God's country.

franksolich · « **Reply #186 on:** December 23, 2012, 02:28:25 PM »

^^might be unusual if seen other places, but a pretty mundane sight here.

franksolich · « **Reply #187 on:** December 23, 2012, 02:30:07 PM »

^^^near where franksolich spent his infancy.

franksolich · « **Reply #188 on:** December 23, 2012, 02:33:01 PM »

franksolich · « **Reply #189 on:** December 23, 2012, 02:36:30 PM »

^^^an awe-inspiring photograph, Christmas Eve somewhere in Belgium, 1944.

franksolich · « **Reply #190 on:** December 23, 2012, 02:38:52 PM »

^^^franksolich in rural Illinois, the night of December 31, 1999.

franksolich · « **Reply #191 on:** December 23, 2012, 02:39:33 PM »

franksolich · « **Reply #192 on:** December 23, 2012, 02:40:13 PM »

^^^franksolich's computer, showing Skins's island.

franksolich · « **Reply #193 on:** December 23, 2012, 02:41:07 PM »

^^^downtown Omaha, 1934, during a dust storm.

franksolich · « **Reply #194 on:** December 23, 2012, 02:41:56 PM »

^^^nadinbrzezinski, girl reporter.

franksolich · « **Reply #195 on:** December 23, 2012, 02:42:52 PM »

^^^nadin's firearms instructor.

franksolich · « **Reply #196 on:** December 23, 2012, 02:43:44 PM »

^^^something similar with what the cats tried dragging into the house the other day, but I wouldn't let them.

franksolich · « **Reply #197 on:** December 23, 2012, 02:45:24 PM »

^^^cat apartment, just before I moved out here.

franksolich · « **Reply #198 on:** December 23, 2012, 02:51:00 PM »

So far, 14 new topics and 190 comments today.

The day ends at 3:00 a.m. central time.

I don't think we're going to make it, but it's been fun trying to.

Flame · « **Reply #199 on:** December 23, 2012, 02:55:59 PM »

Quote from: franksolich on December 23, 2012, 02:40:13 PM

^^^franksolich's computer, showing Skins's island.

Frank, that looks entirely too peaceful and serene to be their island!!

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Author Topic: Photobomb. Post a photo/any photo and I will Hi5 you! (Read 62459 times)