Story Behind the Photo
December 2024: Member’s Best of 2024
Lyle Becker
The ceiling over the Sanctuary of La Sagrada Familia.
©Lyle Becker
The image was captured with my iPhone in RAW: ISO 160, 13mm, f1.8 1/50 sec. It was edited using Lightroom.
Barcelona, Spain, La Sagrada Familia and Antono Gaudi are three that go together. La Sagrada Familia Cathedral in Barcelona has been under construction for over 140 years. It is the masterpiece architectural design of Antoni Gaudi. It has so much to photograph.
From the entrance with the nativity façade of the birth of Jesus done is a 19th century tradition.
When you get into the main church columns rise up like the trunks of tree with the ceiling held up like branches of trees.
The exit is in a modern style depicting the crucifixion.
The stain glass is incredible how it casts the colors throughout the Cathedral from the cool tones of greens and blues to the warm tones of reds, oranges and yellows.
Gaudi experimented with structures based on parabolas. He hypothesized that the inverted parabola would hold the structure if inverted. He based the construction of this cathedral and the apartment building La Pedrera on this principle. This principle allows the roof to be supported without interior beams.
The Cathedral was consecrated a basilica by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010. La Sagrada Familia is to be completed in 2026. The main church Steeple will be the tallest in Europe topped with a 4 way cross. There is so much to photograph and I have left off much….