Austin is known for bats, live music, the University of Texas, and the Capitol.
Justin's grandparents are in town so we went down to the State Capitol.
Standing underneath the dome, built in the style of Renaissance Revival, reminded us of other places we'd visited on our honeymoon.
Hong Kong didn't have too many domes, but it did have a church, and many other churches have domes, so...
While the wats in Thailand were mostly pointy, the stupas behind them were kind of dome-shaped.
In India, we started to see more domes. While most of India is Hindu, there are many Islamic buildings like the Taj Mahal.
In Egypt, many of the mosques had domes, like this mosque in the Citadel in Cairo.
Now Greece was full of domes. And not all blue, like this one in Santorini.
We didn't get inside any big domes until Italy. Something about the Catholics, they love to put up big domes that make you feel incredibly small. Like this one at St. Peter's Basilica.
The Duomo in Florence is one of the more iconic domes in Italy, and one of the most stunning.
While the insides of some domes had patterns, others, like this one in Valencia, Spain, had intricate paintings depicting different stories from the Bible.
The dome of Basilique du Sacré Coeur looks over all of Paris.
The Panthéon in Paris is a dome that most resembles the capitol buildings you see in the United States. And guess what, it was originally a church.
4 comments:
Those are some really nice shots. I even put the Texas Capitol in my screensaver rotation at work. Did you get a shot from *directly* under the dome?
Nice framing on the Taj Mahal. The scaffoding, of course, is just a serendipitous bonus.
I hope you weren't thinking St. Peter's Basilica was actually in focus? :)
Almost directly. The best way to get a shot directly under the dome is to set the camera on a timer, then place it on its back in the center of the floor.
As for St. Peter's, lets just say they don't light the place very well, so what you're seeing is half difficulty focusing, half noise from using a high ISO.
That's a huge relief. I so did not want to go to "photographer ineptitude".
like your clusters or series of domes. is there one on little duckies? :)
two big vocabulary words used on the same day, craig!!! i'm so proud!
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