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<blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 829012" data-attributes="member: 53455">A Procession in Stone (2022)The façade of the abbey church of Saint-Gilles in southern France is a veritable open book of sculpture, telling in images many of the most essential stories of Christianity for the benefit of the illiterate crowds of pilgrims. I could post dozens of photos illustrating those various episodes. This one, making the most of the space offered by a lintel, depicts the procession of Christ and His followers entering Jerusalem.Of course, all the faces were hacked away by barbarians during the French Revolution. The quality of the sculpture is amazing for the early 1100s. Too bad I cannot upload a photo larger than 1,200 pixels. On the 16,000–pixel original TIFF file, the details are mind-blowing...!Nikon Z7 II. This is a 2–shot panorama composite, and the PTGui software I used to stitch them stripped away the EXIF, but the lens used was the Nikkor Z 100-400mm, ƒ/4.5-5.6 S on the usual Gitzo tripod with the Benro geared head.[ATTACH=full]415214[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue439, post: 829012, member: 53455"] [B]A Procession in Stone (2022)[/B] The façade of the abbey church of Saint-Gilles in southern France is a veritable open book of sculpture, telling in images many of the most essential stories of Christianity for the benefit of the illiterate crowds of pilgrims. I could post dozens of photos illustrating those various episodes. This one, making the most of the space offered by a lintel, depicts the procession of Christ and His followers entering Jerusalem. Of course, all the faces were hacked away by barbarians during the French Revolution. The quality of the sculpture is amazing for the early 1100s. Too bad I cannot upload a photo larger than 1,200 pixels. On the 16,000–pixel original TIFF file, the details are mind-blowing...! Nikon Z7 II. This is a 2–shot panorama composite, and the PTGui software I used to stitch them stripped away the EXIF, but the lens used was the Nikkor Z 100-400mm, ƒ/4.5-5.6 S on the usual Gitzo tripod with the Benro geared head. [ATTACH type="full"]415214[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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