Taken facing away from St. Paul's Cathedral in London, England on October 18, 2005 this picture quickly became one of my favorite desktop backgrounds. The cathedral itself is a beautiful and sobering place filled with people shuffled around in quiet reverence, and over 200 tombs and memorials including that of John Donne (a favorite poet of mine), Florence Nightingale, Sir Winston Churchill, and Lord Horatio Nelson, a famous British admiral whose victory at The Battle of Trafalgar would celebrate its 200 year anniversary in 3 days time on Oct 21st. We stayed in the cathedral for a sermon (how could we not?) and climbed the entire way up to the Golden Gallery (530 stairs!) for a wonderful view of the city. Olympus C770UZ, f/5.6, 1/250, ISO 64.
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