Thanks, Stan. It's not a very contrasty scene, and it wasn't a very contrasty day. I actually dialed it up quite a bit.
The monks were humble but the Church was not; and the abbots lived very well indeed. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 8:23 PM, Stanley Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > Nice. It seems a bit dark and lacking contrast on my screen, but I think that > is due to my cataracts which are slowly developing… > > I am having a hard time reconciling the notion of monastery with such an > opulant setting. Aren’t monastery’s about humble and self-effacing and > retreat from the world? > > I have been many places but so far mainland Portugal is not on my list. I > think I would like to spend some time in Lisbon one of these days… > > stan > >> On Jan 3, 2017, at 9:53 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I had a meeting in Lisbon in November, and my wife and I took a few days' >> holiday before it started. >> >> This is one of the lesser entrances to the Jerominos Monastery, started in >> 1501, finished a century later, and damaged only slightly by the 1755 >> earthquake: >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18329263 >> >> (K-5, DA 16-45) >> >> Comments appreciated. >> >> Rick >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
