We shot this church from all angles (and, psst, inside!) during a rainy day on a road trip to France and Luxembourg. Part of the itinerary was to visit the buildings of Le Corbusier in this region, and while this is a particularly sleepy and backwards-looking part of France, once we were on the hill, we were surrounded by tourists, trendies and a very rude group of Dutch architecture fans.

Notre Dame Du Haut replaces an older church, which burnt down at the beginning of the last century, its second incarnation heavily daamged by German bombs in the Second World War. It is said that Le Corbusier enjoyed working on the Couvent de La Tourette a few years earlier, that he jumped at the chance of working for the Catholic Church again. This Chapel is part of the St. Jacobs Pilgrims path and a pilgrimage site in its own right, so it houses a separate quarters for pilgrims, a intimate interior as well as an outdoors altar for large scale masses, seen on the far right.

This is an HDR image combined from one RAW corrected at different exposures. It turned out somewhat dark, which many of my HDR's do if I try to keep the natural look. More of this church, soon, hopefully.