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20-MAY-2006	Marisa

The flat country, which had cathedrals as only mountains...

Antwerpen - Belgium

The town of Rubens and the Ť Sinjoren ť.
Antwerpen welcomes us with a canopy of dark heavy clouds and its impressive main square.
The cathedral is the biggest gothic church of Belgium and Holland.
It had taken two centuries to build it.
Once they did things calmly and well, they had to last forever.

Canon EOS 350D
1/60s f/5.6 at 17.0mm iso200 hide exif

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Date/Time	20-May-2006 10:33:16
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ISO Equivalent	200
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gina_dl		23-Mar-2007 17:02
ello Marisa, Some trivia I hope you like : As you saw there is only one "lacelike" tower; There were meant to be two but they ran out of money. Some time ago - I suppose when they started renovating - they calculated the strains and weight of the cathedral. It seems that had the second tower been built the whole structure would have collapsed! Secondly the word "sinjoren" : one time Antwerp and the Netherlands were Spanisch : I don't know if the citizens found themselves so important they called themselves "Senhors" or that other people called them that for being arrogant.Anyway the name stayed and is worn proudly by real "Antwerpenaren". Hope you liked it gina

Jim Ross		05-Jun-2006 08:53
Cool perspective.. Lovely detail...

Arnulf M. Elvevold		04-Jun-2006 13:38
Your perspective and the composition are both very good. Great work. (Don't fall back next time photographing right up towards the skies.)

Guest		02-Jun-2006 17:24
And some mountains hah??? A miracle of architecture rather than natures...