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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 822925" data-attributes="member: 53455">This is typical Sardinia: very cute, very old (this one was built around 1050) little churches standing literally in the absolute middle of nowhere, with no settlement of any kind for the next 10 or 15 kilometers... Yet, you do recognize the bandes lombardes decoration around it, don’t you? Yes, just the same as the ones I described in the previous post... So, we know that, even in those far ago days, there were regular communications by boat between Sardinia and the mainland, and that architects and masons were called upon to make the crossing, come and build churches...Nikon D850, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens. Gitzo tripod.[ATTACH=full]408972[/ATTACH]My old mentor Dom Angelico, osb, used to advocate black-and-white photography because it allows us to better concentrate on the subject matter we have in front of us, without being distracted by color information. And, looking at this capital from a late 12th century Romanesque church in the Saintonge region of France, I must admit there is merit to that opinion. Here, we see what seems to be a battle between dogs and eagles. Of course, many of those capitals were meant to educate, back in those days when almost no one could read, and even fewer people had ever seen a book, let alone owned it. Thus, they were highly symbolic, and most of that symbolism eludes us nowadays. Many thick tomes have been written on the subject; I own some and keep trying to educate myself. It remains very difficult, if not utterly impossible, to put oneself in the shoes of a man of the years 1100 and see the world as they saw it, in a very naive manner, surrounded by dangers and unexplainable things for which religion always came as the obvious answer.Nikon Z7, Micro-Nikkor 85mm, ƒ/2.8 PC-E D tilt-shift lens, FTZ adapter.[ATTACH=full]408973[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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