Sunday, September 26, 2010
Les Magnifiques Portes
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Today's Sunday Church Series takes us back to the lovely Église St. Madeleine. I'm featuring this photograph because I think it illustrates the immense size ( 33' high X 15' wide), as well as the bas reliefs of the Ten Commandments on these magnificent bronze doors. (Taken in November 2008, you can see the renovation scaffolding as well.)
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- Virginia
- Birmingham, AL, United States
- I am a former elementary school teacher, a full-time photographer, lover of all things French ( whose French is slowly improving), obsessive Paris traveler, enthusiastic church and community volunteer, and grandmother to 5 delightful grandchildren.
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I fell in love with Paris in March 2007. It was as the French say, le coup de foudre : love at first sight. As a result of that trip, my photography took another direction. Since that time I have pursued a career of sorts in photography and dreamed of returning to the City of Light. November 2008 found me strolling the streets of Paris once again. My first visit I was so overwhelmed with the incredible beauty of the city, I photographed it as a "tourist". In 2008 I returned and I looked at the city with more of a photographer's eye. I wanted to capture the unique, the small details, and oh yes - the people! This blog was started as a photo diary of that trip, but I have been most fortunate to return to the city j'adore 15 times since. Each time I leave, I wipe a tear and start planning my list for the next trip. Paris may well be a moveable feast, but I think it's best savored in person! Someone told me that once you have been to Paris, you will leave a piece of your heart. I left mine right there, but I brought home some wonderful memories. It is my pleasure to share them with you.
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12 comments:
33' high, that is 3 stories... A wonderful documentary of it.
You really picked the perfect angle to communicate those massive dimensions! Great work.
I'm still grasping the enormity of those doors, V. Quite glorious.
Great lighting on the door, Virginia, and the angle of your shot enhances the dimensions. Nice detail in the panels.
What a detailed door! The angle is really magnificent in this image.
Ps. I love your "mot du jour" on the side of your blog. It's a new feature, non?
Thank you all. Actaully I can't b elieve I still had this photo. I didn't like the scaffolding in the corner but decided the doors are so grand I'd post it anyway.
Brittany,
Genie found it and I copied. I love it because I can make that lady say it over and over ! :)
Wow! how on earth do they manage to open these monsters? They're fantastic! Such detail and beauty.
Very well composed and great light! Another example of how Parisians are able to take the mundane and make it a work of art! Sometimes it seems we do the opposite - take a work of art and make it mundane. :-)
I love your new header..gorgeous flowers!!
I'm going to move to Paris and see if I can get the job of door opener/closer here at St. Madeleine—that exercise would keep you in shape, I'd think!
Oh Virg, this is superb
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