Salisbury Cathedral
Seeing as the scaffolding FINALLY came down last week, and the building is now scaffolding-free, it seemed fitting to revisit my photos from it and share some. It's a real mix of photos on this thread, as they were taken over a collection of visits using different cameras and edited using different software etc. I thought I'd leave editing them further, as although I am more familiar with editing photos now, I kinda like the fact that they show how I used to take photos ten years ago. This place was always more about the adventure than the photos; the fact that every time we went the scaffolding had moved or changed in size; the fact that to even get into the grounds of the cathedral you had to circumnavigate locked fortress-like gates to all entrances that are surrounded by houses and curtain-twitchers; the fact that the bell would sound every x minutes and if you forgot this (depending on where you were) you'd have ringing ears for hours. That, and the spire is the tallest in the country, as well as the largest cloister and the largest cathedral close in the country, so it's automatically brilliant.
Visited over a few different trips with @WhoDaresWins @END-PROC and @tallginge , all of which I look back on very fondly.
(And as a quick disclaimer, before anyone asks, no it wasn't us that hung a Russian flag from the scaffolding shortly after the poisonings in 2018...!)
Photos
- seems my ability to deal with the white balance has become better over the years. It's all over the place in some of these #sorrynotsorry
Up into the spire
This is where I have to be honest. Only one of the group made it out onto the top of the spire, as the rest of us were feeling incredibly tired and opted to wait a bit further down. On the next visit, we decided we had to do it as if you're going to top out one UK cathedral spire, it has to be this one. When we got to the top, we discovered to our dismay that the small hatch leading outside was locked tight. Honestly, one of the biggest regrets of my entire 14 years of doing this silly hobby; hindsight and all that I suppose. The friend who made it out to the top only took one photo, and I'll add it here (with a funny blurryface) but with the full disclaimer that it isn't mine regrettably. Fair play to you, sir.
Credit; END-PROC
A very '2013' group photo
One of the loudest things I've ever experienced was being stood next to the bell as it chimed. Fairly sure my hearing has been slightly reduced ever since. Here is a video of it chiming from a safer level:
Hope you enjoyed this throwback thread almost as much as I did reliving it <3
Seeing as the scaffolding FINALLY came down last week, and the building is now scaffolding-free, it seemed fitting to revisit my photos from it and share some. It's a real mix of photos on this thread, as they were taken over a collection of visits using different cameras and edited using different software etc. I thought I'd leave editing them further, as although I am more familiar with editing photos now, I kinda like the fact that they show how I used to take photos ten years ago. This place was always more about the adventure than the photos; the fact that every time we went the scaffolding had moved or changed in size; the fact that to even get into the grounds of the cathedral you had to circumnavigate locked fortress-like gates to all entrances that are surrounded by houses and curtain-twitchers; the fact that the bell would sound every x minutes and if you forgot this (depending on where you were) you'd have ringing ears for hours. That, and the spire is the tallest in the country, as well as the largest cloister and the largest cathedral close in the country, so it's automatically brilliant.
Visited over a few different trips with @WhoDaresWins @END-PROC and @tallginge , all of which I look back on very fondly.
(And as a quick disclaimer, before anyone asks, no it wasn't us that hung a Russian flag from the scaffolding shortly after the poisonings in 2018...!)
Photos
- seems my ability to deal with the white balance has become better over the years. It's all over the place in some of these #sorrynotsorry
Up into the spire
This is where I have to be honest. Only one of the group made it out onto the top of the spire, as the rest of us were feeling incredibly tired and opted to wait a bit further down. On the next visit, we decided we had to do it as if you're going to top out one UK cathedral spire, it has to be this one. When we got to the top, we discovered to our dismay that the small hatch leading outside was locked tight. Honestly, one of the biggest regrets of my entire 14 years of doing this silly hobby; hindsight and all that I suppose. The friend who made it out to the top only took one photo, and I'll add it here (with a funny blurryface) but with the full disclaimer that it isn't mine regrettably. Fair play to you, sir.
Credit; END-PROC
A very '2013' group photo
One of the loudest things I've ever experienced was being stood next to the bell as it chimed. Fairly sure my hearing has been slightly reduced ever since. Here is a video of it chiming from a safer level:
Hope you enjoyed this throwback thread almost as much as I did reliving it <3
