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<blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 830317" data-attributes="member: 53455"><p><strong>Saint-Martin-de-Londres in Languedoc, southern France (2022)</strong></p><p></p><p>Inspired by Byzantine architectural concepts (hence its trefoil floor plan and its octagonal bell tower on a cupola, topped by a short pinnacle), this Romanesque church was built around 1050 by the local Montarnaud lords. The place had no name back then, but as the church was dedicated to Saint Martin, the village that grew around it was named after it (the “Londres” part has nothing to do with London, or Londinium, as it was named back then: it comes from the Celtic <em>lund</em> and subsequent Occitan <em>loundro,</em> meaning stagnant water, in reference to a nearby marshy lake). Then, in 1088, it was given to the abbey of Gellone and became a priory church until the French Revolution in 1789. The wall separating the enclosure from the village is still visible.</p><p></p><p>Taking a full photo of it was hellishly difficult because of the lack of space to step back from the monument. I needed to shift and rotate the lens to include all of the façade without distortion. All the other photos I have seen online of that church are really lacking.</p><p></p><p>Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens, manual focus, FTZ II adapter. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]416509[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue439, post: 830317, member: 53455"] [B]Saint-Martin-de-Londres in Languedoc, southern France (2022)[/B] Inspired by Byzantine architectural concepts (hence its trefoil floor plan and its octagonal bell tower on a cupola, topped by a short pinnacle), this Romanesque church was built around 1050 by the local Montarnaud lords. The place had no name back then, but as the church was dedicated to Saint Martin, the village that grew around it was named after it (the “Londres” part has nothing to do with London, or Londinium, as it was named back then: it comes from the Celtic [I]lund[/I] and subsequent Occitan [I]loundro,[/I] meaning stagnant water, in reference to a nearby marshy lake). Then, in 1088, it was given to the abbey of Gellone and became a priory church until the French Revolution in 1789. The wall separating the enclosure from the village is still visible. Taking a full photo of it was hellishly difficult because of the lack of space to step back from the monument. I needed to shift and rotate the lens to include all of the façade without distortion. All the other photos I have seen online of that church are really lacking. Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens, manual focus, FTZ II adapter. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head. [ATTACH type="full"]416509[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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