Posted on October 7, 2021
The three great main doors of Chartres Cathedral are each framed in a whole series of carved gothic arches.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Arches
Category: Doors Tagged: Arches, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Chartres, Chartres Cathedral, Doors
Posted on October 19, 2020
Another impressive triptych of intricate stained glass in the mighty Cathedral at Chartres.
Category: Windows Tagged: #MondayWindow, Chartres, Chartres Cathedral, Stained Glass, Windows
Posted on January 6, 2020
This week it’s the turn of stained glass for Khürt’s Monday Window challenge.
This is one of the biggest windows you’ll see anywhere: the rose window in the Cathedral of Chartres.
Category: Windows Tagged: #MondayWindow, Chartres, Chartres Cathedral, Monday Window, Stained Glass
Posted on September 24, 2019
Frank is looking for images of stone to meet his theme for the Tuesday Photo Challenge this week. This small portion of the massive façade of Chartres Cathedral has stone aplenty and certainly would have made a powerful statement about the overwhelming power of the Church.
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Stone
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Architecture, Chartres Cathedral, Church, fpj-photo-challenge, Stone, Stonework
Posted on February 2, 2018
The little Rue Saint-Yves lies within the bounds of Chartres cathedral. The gateway dates from 1257. It is known as the Porte de l’Officialité because in medieval times it provided access to the Ecclesiastical Tribunal.
My thanks to the unknown lady who appeared from around the corner just as I was taking the shot. She made all the difference, not least in giving an idea of the scale of the Cathedral itself.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Roads
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Chartres, Chartres Cathedral, Cobblestones, Roads
Posted on April 13, 2017
As promised, this week we feature some of the mightily impressive doors of the great cathedral of Chartres, often said to be the most beautiful cathedral in France and certainly a high point of French Gothic architecture dating from the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries.
As you would expect, the principal entrances seek to impress:
As I recall, my second-ever contribution to Thursday Doors was this mouse’s-eye view of one of the main entrances:
It’s worth seeing from the inside too:
This is the entrance to the crypt:
And finally, this qualifies as a door, I think, although technically speaking it’s actually a reredos – a screen that once stood behind the high altar, but is now just propped up against a wall:
Next week we’re back to the usual diet of tatty secular doors.
Thursday Doors 13 April 2017
Category: Doors Tagged: Chartres, Chartres Cathedral, Church, Doors, Thursday Doors
Posted on April 4, 2017
Lots of texture in this detail of a selection of saints to be found at Chartres Cathedral:
More submissions to Narami’s weekly challenge can be found here
Category: Texture Tagged: Chartres, Chartres Cathedral, Church, Sculpture, Texture, TuesdaysofTexture
Posted on February 27, 2017
The colours in this stained glass window in the cathedral at Chartres are truly stunning:
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 29 – Beautiful Colours
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: 52 Weeks, 52Weeks, Beautiful Colours, Chartres, Chartres Cathedral, colours, Stained Glass
Posted on July 18, 2016
Cee’s Compose Yourself Photo Challenge has now reached Black & White and as a first stage is focussing on texture and contrast. Here are some images that incorporate both these key elements of monochrome images.
This camellia flower was actually a gorgeous shade of purple, but the monochrome brings out the texture of the leaves very well, while the greater contrast enhances the perception of detail at the heart of the flower :
This little imp sits on an electricity pylon, contrasting well with the texture of the concrete post, in the small hamlet of Bonnefont, quite close to here:
Monochrome also brings out the texture in these carvings from Chartres Cathedral….
…and the contrast in this dramatic skyscape
Category: Black & White, Composition Tagged: Black & White, Bonnefont, Camellia, Carving, Cee's Compose Yourself Photo Challenge, Chartres Cathedral, Contrast, Skyscapes, Texture
Posted on April 28, 2016
This week’s contribution was actually inspired by last week’s post from Geriatri’x’ Fotogallery, which showed a range of open doors. After all, who said the door had to be closed?
And who said you had to be looking in? This is one of the big doors of Chartres Cathedral, looking out to some of the exterior stonework. Given the high contrast between light and dark, getting a worthwhile image certainly put Lightroom through its paces, but I think it was worth the effort.
Thursday Doors 28 April 2016
Category: Doors Tagged: Chartres Cathedral, Doors, light and dark, Thursday Doors