A cloister is exactly what it is. Well, the Ambulatory of a cloister to be exact. There's a door at the end of this walk, and another, it's twin, matching it. It's not a full ambulatory, as in on all four sides, this is one on three.
Another blank and white vote! Someday, I've always wanted to learn to do stonework like that. The only problem is that where I live, rocks aren't easy to come by. If I ever live someplace with lots of rocks, I would certainly give it a try and probably never stop until I had a castle built!
Oddly enough, this was the first official building built in peace time using the tools learnt in the European wars for the previous 60 years. What this meant was that as a percentage of the entire building cut and dressed stone amounted to about 5% of the whole. It's sorta framed in cut stone but is built with rubble stone much like you'd rise on the board of a plough. With the biggest held in your two arms. It's actually relatively easy these days to dress stone. The only issue would be it would be quite hard on the electric bill.
Oh, yes. I'm with you on preferring the B&W. It's lovely. Brings to mind a cloister, which is one of my favorite features in cathedral, abbey design.
ReplyDeleteA cloister is exactly what it is. Well, the Ambulatory of a cloister to be exact. There's a door at the end of this walk, and another, it's twin, matching it. It's not a full ambulatory, as in on all four sides, this is one on three.
DeleteThe block stand out better in the B&W, but I like the warm hue of the color photo.
ReplyDeleteYes I think that's due to the lack of other colours forcing your eye to search and make important those hard shaded areas on the lines.
DeleteI like them both, for the reasons the others mentioned. I'm leaning towards the color though, due to its warmth.
ReplyDeleteI was going for the geometry of the thing. Usually I'd use a tripod for such an image, but I hand held this and it was quite hard to compose.
DeleteAnother blank and white vote! Someday, I've always wanted to learn to do stonework like that. The only problem is that where I live, rocks aren't easy to come by. If I ever live someplace with lots of rocks, I would certainly give it a try and probably never stop until I had a castle built!
ReplyDeleteOddly enough, this was the first official building built in peace time using the tools learnt in the European wars for the previous 60 years.
DeleteWhat this meant was that as a percentage of the entire building cut and dressed stone amounted to about 5% of the whole. It's sorta framed in cut stone but is built with rubble stone much like you'd rise on the board of a plough. With the biggest held in your two arms.
It's actually relatively easy these days to dress stone. The only issue would be it would be quite hard on the electric bill.