Norwich Cathedral

I've just made a couple of visits to Norwich Cathedral to take some photographs for the Guardian Camera Club's August assignment - religious buildings and iconogrpahy. It made me realise just what a marvellous building this is, and that I have never really looked at in detail, and certainly not from a photographer's perspective either. I've taken quite a few shots that I'm happy with - in fact it will be hard to choose just six to post on the web site. I will include a few of them in this post. It was great to be there at different times of day, and see how the changing light offers different possibilities - sometimes a shaft of sunlight would pick out a feature of the architecture, but in a few moments it could be gone. Interesting how the little details appealed to me the most - the hymn books, prayer cushions, notices and so forth - maybe I was looking for something a little different.

Norwich HEART has a competition running till the end of October on the theme of Norwich's medieval churches, so it looks like I will be really busy over the next few weeks getting to grips with the local churches and their various uses - a good follow-on to the Cathedral project.

I came out of the first week of my photography course at the Norwich Arts Centre on the 1st of September and wandered into the nearby St Laurence church, which is usually closed, but currently has a display of fashion and textiles. It's a lovely light and airy church and I decided to take some pictures, some of which may well feature in a September post.