Mission - San Xavier del Bac - #6 by diomedes66
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Mission - San Xavier Del Bac
Mission Altar
Obviously, this is the mission's altar - a tad ornate for my personal taste - almost everything up there has been gilded in either gold or silver. This was a particularly onerous shot as I felt that bringing a tripod into a church while people were praying would be a bit gauche so I sat in the first pew, rested the camera on the railing in front of me and squeezed off the shot - 1.5 seconds at f3.1 - one could spend weeks just photographing the detail up here.
Another artistic scribbling - Your comments and suggestion are very highly valued and quite deeply appreciated.
Comments (48)
Wonderful and incredible altarpiece......!!!! Splendid photo......!!! V
AMAZING Detail! Absolutly beautiful shot!! Xcellent!
You are right, it is very ornate, but when you think of all the painstaking time and effort it took to create this, it is truely a wonder!! Excellent shot!!
A fine Image of ...."over opulence"...a Peon would feel out of place in Heaven :]
Just beautiful! I love looking at churches such as this one..it is amazing the amount of work and money that goes into them! Beautiful!! V!
THAT IS SOOOOOO AMAZING!!!! Amazing details!!!! Wonderful capture Paul!!! You nailed it! Have a great upcoming week. #:O)
amazing altarpiece......!!!! this was the thing to do back then. lol but this is super looking
Excellent image, perfectly done work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tr jolie sie ces photos de mission, bravo!
great, lovely shot!
Wonderful interior shot with fine detail, particularly well done without a tripod. Kudos!
Wow fantasticphoto V!
Wow, wealthy ornaments filling this church building, impressive artwork!
love the " baroque " churches! this one is toomuch! your pic is a delight!
Wonderful - erweltigend sch!
What was it Rummy said: 'shock and awe'?
It looks amazing!!! This is so impressive, but in my mind I see all this poor mexican people, specially 100 and more years ago who had not enough to eat and this church is stuffed with gold, what a blasphemy and this was called a mission!!!! However I love this wonderful image, it is from overwelming beauty!!! Excellent captured!!!
very ornate and reminds me of some cathredrals in the Filipines. often hard to make a good capture in a church with poor light but yours came out perfect
You did a fabulous job capturing this Paul.A tad ornate? What an understatement!!!!!-M :)
This is a beautiful capture! And the history is interesting to this church as well. http://emol.org/tucson/sanxavier/history.html It is so easy for non-Christians to blame Christians for everything. :-(
Impressive ornate altar and a beautiful shot... wonderful lighting!
wow, an impressive altar. its a pleasure to explore the amazing details. wonderful image,Paul. * bravo * again #:O)
Wow, very elaborate! Great shot, love the lighting!
This is very elaborate, but it tells a story of devotion and love and great faith. Someone spent many many hours and attention to detail, to accomplish this very driven decoration.
Another excellent photo to this series!! :)
Wow ...such detail! What an amazing subject and image. Beautiful!! :-)
i can't believe how it looks inside! i certainly didn't expect this! it's a gorgeous capture, Paul!!! you show us fantastic detail!!! I could spent hours shooting this place too! :)
Oh wow!! Now this is a real piece of art!!! I'm always amazed when I see that kind of architecture and its complexity! No wonder it took sometimes centuries to finish one of those!!!
Many different images in this capture. Excellent. Aloha
they spared no expense when they built that alter..great pic getting all the details