Stained Glass, Modern Methods, Traditional Values

Places of worship aren’t always filled with ancient stained glass, far from it, there are plenty of modern examples out there to be found. These windows are created using modern techniques, still containing meaning and story, but with acknowledgement to what has gone before.

These pair of windows in Malvern Priory are called the Millennium windows and celebrate the start of the third Christian millennium. They were created by Thomas Denny in 2004 and their design was inspired by Psalm 36.

I love the space these windows create, tucked into a corner, against a more traditional window. Their colours are bright and vibrant and in the afternoon bathe the area in fantastic patterns. The windows seem more accessible, more touchable, more believable. Instead of being one of those big windows, viewed from afar, you can actually touch them! It somehow makes them seem like they are more real.

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Stained Glass - Great Malvern Priory

Millennium Windows - Great Malvern Priory

Millennium Windows - Professor Moriarty

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Europe / UK-England

Lat: 52° 6' 38.031" N
Long: 3° 20' 41.985" W

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Taken with a Nikon D300 and a Nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8G fisheye lens. Mounted on a Nodal Ninja 5 panoramic head and R-D16 rotator atop a Manfrotto 055XPROB tripod. 9 bracketed shots (-4 -3 -2 -1 0 +1 +2 +3 +4) taken at 6 positions 60° apart, tilted 15° down, another set of shots taken looking straight up. Raw files then processed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 before being blended into single views and stitched together using PTGui Pro 10.0.16 and converted using Pano2VR 4.5.3.