StainedGlassPhotography What's New

I'm nearing completion of a new and exciting project involving images of the Basilica of the National Shrine in Washington DC. Although it is home to some fine stained glass, including windows by Charles Connick from the 1920's, the Basilica is far better known for mosaics and I believe boasts the largest collection of any building in the world.

Here is a link to a small selection of images of some of the mosaics.

Watch this space for further details of the project....

OK, I know that this is way overdue but better late than never...there is a new folder with photographs of the beautiful windows at the Second Reformed Church in Hackensack, NJ in the Buildings folder at StainedGlassPhotography.com

There are some other images which I intend to add including some of stained glass from the extensive collection at Glencairn Museum in PA. In addition I am now working on a project for the National Basilica in the course of which I have been documenting not only stained glass but also some of the gorgeous mosaics which comprise what I believe to be the largest collection of mosaics anywhere in the world.

Earlier this week I learned that the London Borough of Walthamstow recently announced plans to cut back on staff and public access to the William Morris Gallery and museum. In response to protests and negative publicity for these changes the plans to eliminate weekday opening of the gallery have been modified. However, as far as I can ascertain, the plans to eliminate the curator functions and jobs are unchanged.

Personally I believe this to be a very short-sighted move on the part of the council and I feel that there must be ways of funding this resource which has value extending far beyond the museum or the Borough of Walthamstow. If anyone who reads this shares my view then I urge you to sign a petition in support of the Gallery. Modifications to the proposed cuts in opening times have shown that the Council is responsive to public pressure and so a strong international reaction against the curatorial staff cuts may lead to a rethinking of that part of the planned changes also.

This is just a very brief announcement that today I opened a new shop which offers a selection of poetry, prayers and scripture on tiles. It is called, appropriately enough, VerseTile

We have launched the poetry section with some brand new items featuring poems by Emily Dickinson to which we will soon be adding many more works by poets from both sides of the pond. In the prayer section you will find tiles and tile boxes with the Lord's Prayer, the Serenity Prayer and the St Francis Peace Prayer, some accompanied by an image of stained glass. Last, not least, the scripture section begins with quotations from both Old and New Testaments including the ever-popular 23rd and 121st psalms, Jesus The Good Shepherd, the parable of the good Samaritan and Micah 6:8.

Labels: Emily Dickinson, gifts, Lord's Prayer, poetry, prayers, scripture, Serenity Prayer, St Francis Prayer, tiles

I recently had the good fortune to photograph some beautiful windows at St John's in Boonton and have uploaded a selection of them in this folder

There are 3 windows by Tiffany Studios - The Raising of Jairus's Daughter which, sadly, backs onto a church hall with less than perfect backlighting. The Good Samaritan and the Good Centurion.

Several of the images have been used to decorate ornaments and gift items which can be purchased from ChurchGiftshops.com with profits going towards the cost of repairing and restoring the windows.

I am pleased to announce that two important books on theology by Alister McGrath have been published with cover art incorporating two of our images. Both are the work of Blackwell Publishing and I have to say that they did a superb job of reproducing the images, which were of Henry Holiday windows in Calvary Episcopal Church in Summit, and the results look simply stunning. Here is a link to one of the two books on Amazon

There are a couple of artists whose work on CafePress I greatly admire and which, I strongly suspect, has far more sales potential than they are presently realising. I therefore decided to take advantage of the CafePress affiliate programme and create a new domain specifically to sell the items from these CafePress stores.

This has absolutely nothing to do with stained glass, the only reason I am mentioning it here is to create links so that it will be more quickly picked up by Google, Yahoo and other engines. If you are only here for stained glass then this entry is not for you but if you like dogs or have a dog-lover you occasionally buy gifts for then this might be of interest.

The domain which I chose is OurPetDog.com . When I began trying out new names at GoDaddy I fully expected to be there for hours trying ever-more-obscure word combinations and was very pleasantly surprised to find that something as simple as "Our Pet Dog" was still available. Not only is it meaningful and quite easy to remember but also it only has 9 letters which, this late in the game, is pretty incredible.

The artists whose work I am showcasing are really very talented and although I know that they are already doing quite well I also know that they are only scratching the surface and will do even better if I can find them some new customers.

If you are not already familiar with CafePress they offer an amazing selection of items ranging from t-shirts, sweatshirts and other apparel to cards, posters, calendars and other paper products to tiles, ornaments, decorative boxes and lots more.

Do check it out and also bookmark it because new designs are being added constantly as well as designs featuring different breeds of dog.

Neil

OurPetDog.com

Labels: affiliate, cafepress, dogs, pets, shopping