Grip of Iron

During some fleeting spare moments on the way to work, I called in at the church in Kingsclere, North Hampshire. It is a plain but pleasant building in a nice country village. In fact Kingclere is much improved in the recent decades since the main Newbury to Basingstoke road bypass was built. In exchange for a couple of fields and a short stretch of dual carriageway, the village no longer has constant traffic threading it's way through the high street.

Churches and architecture are favourite  subjects, unless I am photographing something weird (or something else weird) This church features thick walls with small windows and is not over endowed with stained glass, but is very nice none the less. I assume a small country village would not be able to afford large and showy windows like Catherdal Cities can. Here is a view from the crossing point deliberately under exposed to give a feeling of the dark interior on a weekday morning.

Here is a view of a side chapel with the tomb of some local worthy. He clearly merits some stained glass. This very dark area required a hand held exposure of one third of a second, and the result is still sharp enough to read the inscription on the tomb. Thank goodness for Image Stabilised cameras, eh?

But you still need a grip of iron even with I.S. in the camera... :-) I managed this shot without I.S. a few years ago...