Salisbury #1 Cathedral (1220-1258) Choir Looking West

I have a great fondness for the old cathedrals - I especially value your precise working with regard to exposure -this one was pretty long- and composition. Well done!
Could you ever hear this -mutually assembled- organ playing?

Thank you MacFred. I love them too. I had an "interesting" trip to Salisbury. I went away for a long weekend with my partner (also visiting Netley). On Sunday night (16th September) we decided to go for a pizza at a restaurant called "Prezzo". We went in the early evening, with my photo gear, with the intention of taking some photos of the cathedral floodlit after dinner. Well......that never happened. We had barely ordered our food when there was a commotion. A diner had been taken ill in the toilet upstairs and his wife was acting very strangely and was distressed and tearful. To cut a long story short, an ambulance was called and they thought it was a nerve agent attack (like the Novichok incidents). Then the police arrived and all the diners (except the 2 people taken ill) were held in quarantine by the police. We spent 7 hours in a derelict department store. Surreal. It now turns out that it was not a nerve agent and may even have been a hoax! Not funny. Anyway, the next morning I went to take this picture (and others) but I was very tired because the police did not let us go until 1.20am. I will have to visit another time for floodlight pictures.......but I do have a photo of the Prezzo restaurant (not obviously at the time of the incident, those I took discreetly on my mobile).

You have captured a three-dimensional result which lends one to a feeling of actually being there. Criticism? Tilt three degrees to the left. Nothing else is able to be criticized it is that good. - David Lyga

@David Lyga Thank you. Do you mean a tilt at the taking stage or the printing? If at the printing stage I can look at that. It only takes 2 minutes of faffing about to make another print (but an hour and half to work out how to print it in the first place). I have to confess that I can't see the tilt but then again my eyesight isn't very good (I am astigmatic).

I just find the vaulting is a bit too rightward. A simple tilt of the easel would satisfy David Lyga.

@David Lyga I will look at the print in the light tomorrow and see what I can do. It is a small miracle that any photos were taken at all after the events of the night before! My experience of other cathedrals is that the vaulting is imperfect and sometimes not even aligned with the centreline. Lincoln cathedral is a prime example of this (there is a picture of Lincoln nave somewhere in my gallery photos). It has had some wear and tear after 800 years.

@David Lyga You have sharp eyes! I have looked at the print in good light this morning. There is a slight tilt to the right. Well spotted and thanks, I will see what I can do (but I might make it worse). The horizontals must stay horizontal so as you suggest, a slight tilt of the easel upwards might sort it (or I can tilt the enlarger head and lens board independently). You have encouraged me to print this bigger which is something I rarely do but I think this picture deserves it. PS: I am in The Times (London) today, 21st September 2018, regarding the Salisbury Prezzo restaurant incident. Page 9 of the print copy. Stephen

A beautiful composition. Must be a wonderful experience to photograph in such a place ... sights, sounds, smell

@PhotoBob Thank you. Yes it is. It's an honour to be able to visit such places so easily.