Roskilde Cathedral Photo

Photographer’s Note

This is Roskilde Cathedral, taken from the backside, the only Danish church that is added to UNESCO's list of the world's most precious cultural assets.

First, there was a wooden church on this place from 985, but in 1280 a church of brick was build, it was one of the first Danish churches build of brick and about 3 million bricks were used. In the years after 1280 it got some more chapels etc.

The church is also used by the royal family. The members of the royal family are buried here.

On the forground you see soms buildings of the Roskilde Palace, which also can be seen here.

About the photo: only sharpened and decreased the light a bit - but somehow it's too sharp now:(

weswang, bertolucci, erdna, Tue, steveegg, singuanti, carper, Jeppe, papagolf21, Hanssie has marked this note useful

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devimeuxbe (56598) 2005-03-18 16:50

Hi Stef
So nice colors !
I like your choise of composition.
Very nice picture
bertrand

weswang (18223) 2005-03-18 16:53

Hi Stef, The colors are lovely, like in a story book. The contrast is excellent. Nice to see the layers of the buildings with different colors. Well done.

bertolucci (12024) 2005-03-18 17:01

Wow Stef, astonishing colour contrast here and much graphic content - I love it. Prachtig ook hoe de bouwvolumes van het paleid en die van de oude kerk in elkaar grijpen. Juist zoals ik het graag zie. Erg goed werk!
Groeten uit Rotterdam,
Bert

alvaraalto (5353) 2005-03-18 17:04

Hi Stef,
Heel mooi, die 3 verschillende nivo's met elk hun eigen kleuren. De gele huizen met de rode daken die overgaan in de steen van de Dom en het groen dat weer overgaat in het blauw
groetjes Rob

erdna (5360) 2005-03-18 17:24

Hey Steft, this is one bright and sharp photograph! Very definitive. I can observe the details of the building.

Tue (25770) 2005-03-18 17:31

De kleuren zijn geweldig! Zo te zien was er een heel fel licht, maar daar heb je goed mee om weten te gaan! Mooie compositie ook, jammer dat ie wat te scherp is, maja, je kannie alles hebben ;-)
Mooi werk!

MvS (4163) 2005-03-18 18:11

Stef,
Underbar solgul färg. Jag känner igen färgen från din Palace bild, och läste just att de ligger bredvid varandra. Är man med på UNESCO-listan är kyrkan "omistlig". Ganska rolig formulering, vilket betyder att alla andra kyrkor skulle man kunna klara sig utan, men inte denna, och det förstår man ju när man ser den underbara gula färgen...
Underbara gamla fönster också - såna vill jag ha, men ja just det - dom är ju omistliga.
M v h
Magnus

singuanti (15240) 2005-03-18 23:18

Wow, what a colorful place! That yellow is extremely pungent. The sharpness is quite to my liking. Seems like this place has a unique history and you captured that well. The chosen angle here is great as it lets the sun do its thing and show us all of those textual details. Well done!

Jeppe (18624) 2005-03-19 2:52

Very fine and colourful angle you got that Cathedral of Roskilde - Thanks for sharing - I only been here on grey days - Must pay a visit on a day like this - thanks Stef for the note to explain.

carper (67302) 2005-03-19 9:13

Prachtige foto Stef,
goede compositie, uitekende kleuren pracht, hele goede contrast, ja wat kan ik nog meer verzinnen. O ja, uitstekend werk. Gr. Jaap

saintclaude (1398) 2005-03-19 9:47

Hello Stef!
Nice colors and nice point of view, really sharp, a good job! May be a little to much compression? Your lines at the roof of the tower?
Bravo!
Claude

hojper (2830) 2005-03-19 13:35

What superb colours, Stef, and another photo that must go into my theme group on Danish churches. It looks just a little bit oversharpened though. But the colours are great.

toni_al (15476) 2005-03-19 13:48

Gorgeous photo with lovely colours. I like your composition. Well done.

papagolf21 (57785) 2005-03-19 14:43

Bonsoir Stef,
Une très belle vue de la façade postérieure (abside) de la Cathédrale qui possède un passé historique hors du commun.
La lumière est magnifique et fait ressortir les couleurs avec bonheur.
Très bon angle de prise de vue. Je remarque que les fenêtres s'ouvrent vers l'extérieur (comme en Angleterre) !
Très bien fait.
Philippe

Hanssie (9133) 2005-03-19 15:44

Wow, this is nice sharp, I always like that !
The beautiful yellow paint on the wall is very, very nice and you've composed this "going-up", great shot !

jrj (34791) 2005-03-29 11:35

Very good choice to use the yellow house as a foreground to the grand church Stef. Good balance, crisp and clear - maybe a little oversharpened, but not distrubing the fine total impression.

joaoferreira (0) 2005-04-10 9:01

Great colors! I agree it's a little bit "oversharpened"... hehehe But it's a great picture anyway and this doens't affect its result. Good job! Regards!

sekay (87) 2005-04-24 7:29