January 11, 2017 by Cynthia
Three years ago on this blog, I wrote about Henry Holiday’s depiction of the Transfiguration in the stained glass window located at Trinity Church in the City of Boston. At the time I was particularly interested in the position of the hands in his window though my research revealed to me that he was especially noted for his execution of drapery.
With a new lens and new perspective I’ve been revisiting the window, and I begin to understand what I read about his work with cloth in glass.
These images are from the top of the window. What’s amazing to me is that much of this detail you cannot see with the naked eye.
And yet the whole of what you see from the ground is quite stunning.
Read an earlier post here: https://wordsandimagesbycynthia.com/2013/10/07/holidays-tranfiguration/
View the window for yourself at Trinity Church: http://trinitychurchboston.org/art-and-architecture
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January 9, 2017 by Cynthia
bared branches touched by the sun
and protecting the moon
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January 9, 2017 by Cynthia
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January 8, 2017 by Cynthia
The icy patterns that form on the inside of the windows in the old house where I live. The first time this season. Now it feels like winter. 🙂
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January 6, 2017 by Cynthia
I asked a certain physicist to help me understand what happened in the sky near sunset in Copley Square. We discussed the interplay of light and shadow. How the sun below the horizon was illuminating the clouds from below. How the sharp line in the sky might result from shadows cast by something on the horizon. Then of course there were the clouds at different altitudes. Shorter wavelength blue light scattered out. Longer wavelength red light left behind. In the end all we could agree upon was that it was beautiful.
The sun set today in Boston at 4:27 pm.
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December 31, 2016 by Cynthia
Happy New Year! No doubt it will be an interesting one.
Best wishes for peace and prosperity and an awareness of the beauty in the world around us.
Strength and courage will be necessary I suspect. As for New Year goals …
… I’ve made none, not really, except perhaps a commitment to continue to pause and to pause without expectation. These photos I took while pausing inside Trinity Church.
It has been my pleasure to photograph there many times over the years.
Each time there is always something new to see in the tower, on the walls, in the windows and even on the doors.
We’ll see what 2017 holds. 🙂
http://trinitychurchboston.org/visit/tours
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