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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 831190" data-attributes="member: 53455">“I gift you with this church” (2021)Religious sculpture during the Romanesque Age (1000–1200) sometimes features a motif in which you see a wealthy patron presenting a cleric with a sort of small-sized replica of a church, thus symbolizing that the patron in question had paid for the construction of that church. Here, we see King Louis le Débonnaire of France presenting the parochial church in the Burgundy village of Avenas (southeastern France) to Saint Vincent, patron saint of that church.This relief appears on the side of a very well known sculpted altar I have shown before. I am quite happy with this photo, as I have never seen one so correctly taken anywhere else. Even Dom Angelico in the Zodiaque book couldn’t quite manage it, because of the lack of space to maneuver a camera and perspective-control lens into position... In his defense, he had to use Sinar view cameras and 6×6 Hasselblads, so this explains that. The wall of the apse is very close behind. I myself couldn’t physically fit, so that I had to stand to the side and flip the back screen of the camera to frame, set the lens and focus.Nikon Z7, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens, manual focus, FTZ adapter. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head. Natural light.[ATTACH=full]417522[/ATTACH]</blockquote>