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Re: [OM] Monreale Cathedral

Subject: Re: [OM] Monreale Cathedral
From: Wayne Shumaker <om3ti@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 20:04:48 -0700
You did good.

WayneS

At 2/19/2019 03:41 PM, you wrote:

>Hi, Wayne.  Sorry, no larger view of the door. I estimate it was at least 15 
>feet high. One of the challenges of a cathedral is that there's so much. No 
>lens is wide enough, and if it were, the details would be too small. And there 
>are always so many people in the way. We were on an organized tour. Our guide 
>was a very passionate young woman with degrees in archaeology and art history. 
>She had many wonderful things to tell us as we squeezed and wove between other 
>groups.  So my pictures were very much on the fly and by instinct. "Make the 
>part stand for the whole" was the watchword of the day. :-)
>
>--Peter
>
>>I found the door the most interesting. do you have a larger view of 
>it? It was
>>probably built by the craftsman rather than the artisan.
>
>>Way eS
>
>>At 2/18/2019 12:27 AM, you wrote:
>
>>>Enough snow.�  Back to sunny Sicily.
>>>
>>>Monreale Cathedral really blew my mind. Built by Arab architects for 
>the
>>>Norman conquerers of Sicily, it's a Catholic cathedral that looks 
>Byzantine.
>>>The walls are covered with mosaics of Bible stories, and all that 
>glitters
>>>really is gold.�  If you didn't know you were in Sicily you'd think 
>you were
>>>in Istanbul.
>>>
>
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>>>
>>>Olympus E-M5 and Panasonic 20/1.7 or Olympus 45/1.8.Ã? Enjoy!
>>>
>>>--Peter
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