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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 824101" data-attributes="member: 53455">The Saint Hillary church in the village of Melle (Saintonge province, western France) is a beautiful Romanesque church from the early 1100s. What I am showing today, however, is part of the polished marble “installation” done in the choir by Matthieu Lehanneur, the French artist who recently became more famous worldwide for having designed the large bowl or basin and the balloon for the olympic flame at the 2024 Paris Olympics. This very modern “piece”, for want of a better word, is extremely surprising at first, but I must admit that, even for someone like me who do not appreciate modern-day intrusions in my “old stones”, it works rather well and is respectful of the canons of traditional Christian faith.Those lovely rippling waves of stone are very dangerous, though, and stepping on them by mistake is almost sure to result in a twisted ankle and a severe fall. It almost happened to me, and I’m sure it happened several times to various priests as they were focused on performing their duties and not paying particular attention to precisely where they were stepping... I am sure they learned the hard way!The central piece is the altar, the one of the left the Gospel pulpit.Nikon Z7 II, Micro-Nikkor 85mm, ƒ/2.8 PC-E tilt-shift macro lens. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head. Natural light, single exposure.[ATTACH=full]410210[/ATTACH]</blockquote>