495 Comments for Eden Hall Chapel

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I'm impressed that you knew this sign! Usually it's reserved knowledge among us cemetery buffs, and very few people outside of that world think of it as anything more than a dollar sign. :)
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Another great one to enlarge and frame. Great pix, Motts!!!!!
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Now, I'd frame that one and have it in my living room. Say, about 30"x40" with black matting....;-)
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YAY!! First comment!! :-) :-) (OK, not much exciting is happening in my life right now :-* ....) Haven't been on here in a while; this is beautiful. Would've loved to have seen that place. Too bad it's gone. It breaks my heart to see such beautiful work go to waste under a bulldozer. I couldn't do it. Thanks for the pictures, though. At least we get to see these places this way. :-)
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Amazing composition and sense of light.
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Axle grease? To make you slip and fall or to mark you so they could catch you later? ;-)
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Jumpin' Jehosephats! In color the striking craftsmanship of the wood jumps right out at you! Wouldn't you love to have one of these in your entrance hallway? Mike is right - if they didn't strip this place down it would be original sin.
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Well, *I* am not going to be the first one to say it . . . . . . .
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What an angle - I love it! It almost makes me feel like I could somehow get to the top of the ceiling and then slide down one of those beams. Guess that gravity-deal sort of puts it out of the question, eh? :-(
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Incredible atmosphere in this one. I think it's the shadow in the upper right corner that makes it so perfect, and it was obviously never meant to be anything but a black-and-white shot.
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Noah's Ark upside down. I think someone made a similar comment about another building on this site somewhere, but it absolutely puts me in mind of a large wooden boat.
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Absolutely phenomenal - I agree! The architecture is stunning but the angle of the shot pulls you up and up and up.
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Une belle ange!
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I can almost feel the texture . . . . Very nice!

This is another thing I always am blown away by - the amount of hand-eye coordination it would take to carve not just one but hundreds or thousands of intricate details in marble or stone. If you have a large slab you are using for a single piece all it would take would be one little bump at the very end to ruin the piece. I can't even imagine that sort of patience.
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Oh Jeebers, I like this even better than the previous cherub pic! This reminds me of Jean Cocteau's La Belle et La Bete!