I only have four photos today from my 1985 trip to Germany. The first major stop on that trip was to Cologne to see the cathedral I had read about. I had heard that it was huge but even with that knowledge, I wasn't prepared for the massive size of it.
There was not a single spot where I could get a photo that captured the whole thing. I needed a wide angle lens, something I didn't have at that time.
I was certainly not the only tourist wanting to see this place. There were tour buses parked everywhere around the front of the cathedral.
When I finally got past all the parked buses and cars, I was so close to the front of the church that it was filling my view finder. I was only capturing about a quarter of the whole front. Look how tiny the people look compared to cathedral.
There is no doubt that the Cologne Cathedral is a giant in the world of grand churches. Do you suppose it's massive size was planned to make humans feel small in the scope of things?
I did a
Google search to see if there were any better photos and the image results speaks volumes. It's not an easy place to photograph unless you are in the air.
3 comments:
My first visit to Cologne was in 1977. I too was awed by the size of the cathedral. I returned in the late nineties and arrived by train, the station being right across the way. I can remember getting off the train and the cathedral filling to widows on the station confirming that it was as large as I had remembered.
My parents visited it in the late eighties. They were impressed.
Amazing scale
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