London, England - Westminster Abbey Part 2 - August 2024

Here is a continuation of a sampling of my Westminster Abbey photos. The first several are with my good camera, but there are a few covert ones that I had to take with my phone. Not that I suggest doing that.

I hope you like this well-lit transept as much as I did, because you're going to see several different angles of it. I love the light and the fan ceiling. I've debated using one of these in this series for Iowa State Fair Photo Salon, but I'm not sure if they'd be a good fit.

This side is pretty amazing with the flags and the sun flare. I could dehaze it some, but I don't want to.

This sort of combines the two above.

I really like this in a pano, but not sure if it works as well?

The other end of the transept. I love this little archangel just peering at you. I think he needs to eat a sandwich.

I don't remember whose grave this is. I think it was a king or something; most of them were kings or queens. I'm pretty sure it was someone important, or else I wouldn't have taken a photo.

The rosette window on the front of the Abbey is a lot more impressive from the outside when the sun is shining on it.

A crummy phone photo, but this is one angle of Mary, Queen of the Scots' tomb. The little flowers in the canopy are all Scottish thistles, even though they sort of look like spray nozzles from here.

Another angle of Mary, with the windows behind it.

This is the Coronation Chair. There is an older one that is kept upstairs in that Abbey Attic (or whatever it's called) that I mentioned in the previous post, but this is the current one that was used by both King Charles and previously by Queen Elizabeth II. (Another phone photo.)

Phone photo of A and I bumming in the Cloisters.

This is the entry to the Abbey Attic. It is the last photo I took with my good camera until we went back downstairs, as photos were forbidden.