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Friday, 17 June 2011

What a Party!

Three Hundred years since St Paul's was completed it now looks as good as it did in 1711. A fifteen year restoration costing £40 million has finally finished. For the first time in that fifteen years you can now see the cathedral without cranes and scaffolding.



The Reverend Canon Mark Oakley, treasurer of St Paul's, yesterday talked about the mammoth project. The state of the art tecqnics used and the beautiful work restoring the art and mosaics.

To celebrate both the completion of the work and the 3 century anniversary, St Paul's is launching the 300th Anniversary Photograph Competition.

Take your best shot of the exterior of St Paul's. You have until 16 July 2011. Upload your images to St Pauls Flickr.

The ten best images will be displayed in the cathederal crypt. The overall winner will take home a beautiful glass vase made especially for the event by Venice-based firm of Salviati & Co

18 comments:

  1. Are you going to be in the runninng for a glass vase with one of your stunning photos?

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  2. Is that sky from this world? Have a nice weekend.

    Regards

    Valery

    Barcelona Daily Photo

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  3. I love the main photo! Love your blog.

    Happy Friday !

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  4. What a magnificent cathedral! Heavenly!
    You took great interior and exterior photos! I hope you're at least in the top 10 - maybe the crystal vase winner! Good luck!

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  5. Mo, what a great shot and a gorgeous sky!

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  6. Gorgeous! (The cathedral, that it. The Rev - not so much ;) )

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  7. What time of day was that taken? The lights on St Paul's combined with the sky make it so welcoming.

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  8. Well, you certainly have a good chance at the vase. That top photo is wonderful! I have to get there!

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  9. How wonderful to have restored the church and what a great contest to celebrate it as well :o)

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  10. You must be a contender! Lovely pics.

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  11. a really cool competition,i'll go on flickr to see the pics

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  12. I think you're in with a chance with that top shot. Isn't the building gorgeous.

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  13. Outstanding, Mo. The top photo has to be submitted. When you win the glass vase, you are going to show it to us, aren't you?

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  14. This sky adds real drama to your photo.

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  15. Stunning photo, Mo. Bravo!Hope you make the ten. You should!

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  16. I would say top 5 with that shot Mo, it's fabulous!The Cathedral looks amazing, how nice to be able to see it without all that scaffolding.

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  17. Great sky in that top shot, and the light is really nice.

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