Coventry or Avignon

Whilst I admit my obsession with photographing steps is starting to get boring, I do have a point to make with this photo (well, two actually).  Firstly, I had never noticed this feature of Coventry’s Holy Trinity Church before.  I have passed it many times whilst either shopping or taking photos, but never noticed a door half way up the wall.  If I didn’t have a strange addiction to taking photos of steps, I probably would have missed it (and, yes, I will be going back because the light was rubbish and I couldn’t get a good photo of the steps themselves).

The second thing that struck me is that it is very similar to a photo I took at the Papal Palace in Avignon.  Whilst this should not be a surprise as the two buildings are contemporary, I still think it is interesting that there are similarities in buildings built for different purposes hundreds of miles apart in different countries.  However, I also found it interesting that with my 50mm lens in hand I was drawn to the same feature on each building.  But that’s just me.

The light wasn’t brilliant when I took this shot and the side of the church is in shadow for a lot of the Winter, so at ISO200 I was down to f/5.0 to give a shutter speed of 1/100secs.