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<blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 824596" data-attributes="member: 53455"><p>I hope I haven’t posted that one before. Boring you with my long stories is one thing, doing it again with repeat postings shall not be tolerated. If anyone has spotted this one already, do let me know and I will take it down at once! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite11" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></p><p></p><p>That being said, on with the boring story.</p><p></p><p>When one sees an enormous church like this one in a small Burgundy village (Bonnay, barely more than 300 inhabitants), with three naves and tall, forbidding, keep-like crenelations, not to mention sheer defensive mass, one wonders how come such an apparently oversized temple was built here, and whence the monies came. The usual answer is: monastery. In Romanesque days (for this is clearly a Romanesque church: notice the <em>bandes lombardes</em> decoration on what used to be the bell tower?), only abbeys had the financial resources, plus access to the technical and artistic resources, to undertake such a project. And indeed, it is none other than the abbey of Cluny, the largest and most powerful ever in Christendom, that undertook the construction of this church, dedicated to Saint Hippolyte, and of the adjacent priory outbuildings of which almost nothing remains.</p><p></p><p>The church was then fortified around 1200, one of the very first of the kind in Burgundy, and contrary to what will happen in most cases elsewhere, the fortifying was not carried out by the local populace as a refuge against danger, but by the monks themselves.</p><p></p><p>Saint-Hippolyte was listed as a Historic Landmark in 1913. There are still people who come to pray before the altar; in fact, I had to wait for a small group of those to finish their devotions before I could take this photo; I had ample time to set up the 25-second exposure using an ND1000 (i.e., 10-stop) filter in order to have the clouds “fly away”.</p><p></p><p>Nikon Z7, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens, manual focus, FTZ adapter. Gitzo GT2530 Mountaineer tripod, Benro GD3WH geared head. NiSi V7 filter holder, WCC Blackstone 10-stop ND filter.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]410746[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue439, post: 824596, member: 53455"] I hope I haven’t posted that one before. Boring you with my long stories is one thing, doing it again with repeat postings shall not be tolerated. If anyone has spotted this one already, do let me know and I will take it down at once! :rolleyes: That being said, on with the boring story. When one sees an enormous church like this one in a small Burgundy village (Bonnay, barely more than 300 inhabitants), with three naves and tall, forbidding, keep-like crenelations, not to mention sheer defensive mass, one wonders how come such an apparently oversized temple was built here, and whence the monies came. The usual answer is: monastery. In Romanesque days (for this is clearly a Romanesque church: notice the [I]bandes lombardes[/I] decoration on what used to be the bell tower?), only abbeys had the financial resources, plus access to the technical and artistic resources, to undertake such a project. And indeed, it is none other than the abbey of Cluny, the largest and most powerful ever in Christendom, that undertook the construction of this church, dedicated to Saint Hippolyte, and of the adjacent priory outbuildings of which almost nothing remains. The church was then fortified around 1200, one of the very first of the kind in Burgundy, and contrary to what will happen in most cases elsewhere, the fortifying was not carried out by the local populace as a refuge against danger, but by the monks themselves. Saint-Hippolyte was listed as a Historic Landmark in 1913. There are still people who come to pray before the altar; in fact, I had to wait for a small group of those to finish their devotions before I could take this photo; I had ample time to set up the 25-second exposure using an ND1000 (i.e., 10-stop) filter in order to have the clouds “fly away”. Nikon Z7, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens, manual focus, FTZ adapter. Gitzo GT2530 Mountaineer tripod, Benro GD3WH geared head. NiSi V7 filter holder, WCC Blackstone 10-stop ND filter. [ATTACH type="full"]410746[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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