church – bushboys world

Columns and Vertical Lines

Published on June 14, 2018 by bushboy10 Comments

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Columns and Vertical Lines

A rather fat column in Seoul South Korea

The columns in a church in Bologna

One of the many colonnade in Bologna

Some old columns in Pompeii

Some newer columns in the Sagrada Familia Barcelona

March Square – number 22

Published on March 29, 2018April 14, 2018 by bushboyLeave a comment

Another part of a church for #MarchSquare.

This time the church is in Springwood in the Blue Mountains
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Looking inside of an old glass. I think it looks happy
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March Square – number 14

Published on March 20, 2018April 14, 2018 by bushboy4 Comments

Time to pop back into the Grafton Cathedral for #MarchSquare

Three stained glass window circles in a square. If I paid more attention they would be three circles in three circles in a square. A bit of crap cropping…bugger
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March Square – number 12

Published on March 17, 2018April 14, 2018 by bushboy2 Comments

Back into the church for some squares in squares…..lots of squares

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March Square – number 6

Published on March 11, 2018March 9, 2018 by bushboy6 Comments

Another part of the tiled floor in the Grafton Cathedral. Perhaps not a Gold Star for #MarchSquare this time. Maybe if I stood on something to get more of the floor in the photo I could have had five squares within a square

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March Square – number 3

Published on March 7, 2018 by bushboy8 Comments

A few squares within a square within a square and a yellow triangle for #MarchSquare
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Black and White Sunday – The Cathedral

Published on February 28, 2018February 28, 2018 by bushboy17 Comments

For this Traces of the Past, I recently spent a bit of time on a rainy day in the Cathedral Church of Christ the King in my town of Grafton NSW Australia. The Cathedral was finished in 1884. Originally there was a small wooden church on the site built in 1842. The Cathedral is in a great green space in the heart town with the bell tower ringing out the time, a tradition I love.

The hand carved foundations made of sandstone

This side of the Cathedral has lots of lichen

The northern face. You can see the two halves of the church in the roof line where the second part was added

Looking toward the front door and the white roses in the garden.

Looking towards the old bell tower

Looking along the aisle to the back of the Cathedral

The pews have been replaced by comfortable chairs with cushions

Some of the old pews have been retained

The old wooden seats in the front of the cathedral have been kept as well but with cushions added for the comfort of the cathedral officials.

There are many parts of the Cathedral that have been kept in good order

The font in front of the dedication to the Indigenous history of the Clarence Valley.

The ceiling is wonderful highlighting the history of the Valleys timber history

One of the brick arches that support the structure

The back of the Cathedral where you can see the shapes of the stained glass windows

Looking inside. Aren’t the lights lovely

A bit of selective colour

I couldn’t not show you the colour version

And of course I also had to include a bit of the nature who live around the Cathedral. You will always see a Skink or two on the walls.

Hope you enjoyed a look around the Cathedral in my town.

Black and White Sunday: After and Before

Published on September 26, 2017October 18, 2017 by bushboy24 Comments

I love seeing the results of other peoples after and befores on Lost in Translation. This photo challenge allows a bit of creativity as well. This time I have chosen a photo that I was thinking of taking in black and white at the time but didn’t for some reason. Now is my chance to see it as I saw it in a church in Dijon.

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Which photo do you prefer?

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Thursdays Special: Traces of the Past

Published on July 13, 2017August 17, 2017 by bushboy3 Comments

Australia isn’t an old country. Settled in 1788, many of the buildings have gone and there is still some Traces of the Past.

I have, as in my last blog, gone back thousands of years. This time I have a bit of the architecture from the not too distant past.

Many of the buildings in Sydney and the surrounding settlements were made of sandstone. Sydney sandstone is a valuable building material now-a-days. This church is in Springwood in the the Blue Mountains which surround Sydney to the west.
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