If Turner had painted...

...Cathedrals.

We all know that Constable famously painted Salisbury Cathedral, but Turner, of course did all those amazing seascapes with those even more amazing skies...

Billowing entrails of fiery sunrise red
slabbed on heartily, like a Turner painting.

Cascading hastily in the bitter breeze
as summer winds push, forever on.

The pirouetting spire
skewers forever upward
piercing that stolid Wiltshire sky.

A mere snapshot, a moment in time
bringing together beauty and stature
- Heavenly, majestic, superbly sublime.

The cathedral Close gate was open early and so I had planned to do some scudding cloud time exposures, using the 10 stop ND filter, which I did use for later shots. After a faltering, grey start, the sunrise was at its peak here. Unfortunately, the cloud then thickened again and so the those scudding cloud images lacked any sort of definition in the sky. But I will be back - when the clouds are better. It did mean that I was able to use the tripod though for this, for a shot with no compromise to quality.

I uprighted the Cathedral after in Photoshop as it did lean over backwards somewhat - plus a little shadow extraction of detail in the building itself. Not so much as to make it look odd, or sickly but just enough to raise it above a large grey lump.

Lens is Nikkor D 17-35mm f2.8, on full-frame

HUGE thanks for all the support and Hearts etc on my Romsey Abbey with stars Blip of yesterday - currently #2 in the Spotlights!