Day 133 of 365 - St Mary's Guildhall!

Welcome to day 133 of 365 (Finished image after Editing)

The original photo was taken early this afternoon. It is mainly of of the outside of St Mary's Guildhall in the center of Coventry. St Mary's Guildhall has a long and distinguished history, it is considered to be the finest medieval guildhall in the country. It was built on part of the site of the former Coventry castle, building started in the year 1340 and was completed two years later. It was built to serve as the admin and ceremonial base for the richest merchant guilds of the area such as the guild of the Holy Trinity. Notable guild members such as Kings Henry V, VI and VII and Dick Whittington (famous Lord Mayor of London) were all members of the guild. Mary Queen of Scots spent two months detained in the city of Coventry during the winter of 1569 stayed at the Guildhall. Another monarch, King James II was once entertained as a guest of the guild. Up until 2002 the Guildhall was the location for the annual ceremony of 'mayor making' for Coventry's Lord Mayors. Other notable buildings in the image include. The Old Cathedral ruins of St Michael (a Grade I listed building to the Left side of the image) and an Old Tutor Cottage (a Grade II* listed building on the Right side of the image). The main entrance to the Guildhall is in the bottom center of the image (just below the large dome style window).

The building is classed as a Grade I listed building. The building is number 12 on my list of 19 (Grade I) Listed buildings in Coventry that I hope to photograph.

As always the shot was taken with my iPhone 5. The photo was taken using the camera App ProCamera for iPhone. The original image can be found here: Unedited original Image.

First of all I used the app PhotoToaster to edit the photo, this was done by applying Park Slope preset to the image. I then added a color burst vignette. Next I used Distressed FX to add extra texture to the image using the Stirred overlay and the Lade Texture. Finally I passed the image through the App Alt Photo using the Old Kodachrome Vintage Color filter.