The original Church of St Mary Magdalene, in Woodstock, was built a few years ago for the convenience of Henry 1, William the Conqueror's fourth son. So roughly sometime around the year 1100. OK it's been rebuilt a few times since then but still, that's pretty impressive. It's a really lovely Church and the adjoining graveyard was probably the most peaceful place I have ever had the pleasure of walking around.
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| Beautiful Church stonework. HP5+ on one of the last few sheets of Fotospeed RCVC paper that I have. |
Surprisingly these days the door was open - they are trusting folk in Oxfordshire!
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| I should probably have dialled this down a bit but there's slightly more roof detail present in the print than on the scan. |
You can read a little about the Church here. The church clock is no ordinary clock, apparently - it's a carillon (that's a new one for me) - a musical clock which plays a tune four times a day, with a different tune for each day of the week.
A beautiful church and very impressive printing. Did you have to do much with them?
ReplyDeleteThanks. The first print was just a straight print, out of the box. I considered burning in the stonework slightly more than it is, but that might just dull down the whole print too much, so I left it as it was. I like the bit of detail still present on the left hand side (the darker stone cottage).
DeleteThe interior shot was a bit undercooked first time around, so I exposed it for a bit longer and dodged the ceiling a little. I'd forgotten what a nice paper this is.
Can you buy more of the paper? Or has it been discontinued?
DeleteIt's still available, though it doesn't seem that common a paper any more (most of the usual outlets seem to concentrate on Ilford and Foma papers). Pricewise it's getting close to Foma's fibre papers, which makes it difficult to justify.
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