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Saturday, February 20, 2010

Joan of Arc



Interior wall of Dahlgren Chapel of the Sacred Heart on the campus of Georgetown University. The stained glass windows in the chancery represent American saints or those notable in the realm of education. One exception is in the window at the center of this image - her caption reads The Blessed Joan of Arc - which dates the window's construction to sometime between 1909 when she was beatified by Pope Pius X and 1920 when she was canonized by Pope Benedict XV.

This is the final in a week-long series of images of Georgetown University.

ISO 500
1/20 sec
f/4
25 mm

Posted by Kevin at 2:58 PM

1 comments:

Unknown February 20, 2010 at 6:42 PM  

Absolutely love it, Kevin

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Why "A Message From Earth"?

In 1979, Voyager I launched to the outer limits of the solar system and beyond. It carried onboard a gold plated disk for the reference of any intelligent life that found it to learn about earth. The disk contained images of the human figure, greetings in 55 languages, 115 sounds from nature, 90 minutes of music from a variety of cultures and eras, along with a greeting from the President of the United States and Secretary General of the United Nations. These are the only relics of human civilization outside the solar system.

Like Voyager, this record here beams elements of this life into the digital ether. Who will find it? What meaning will it have to them? I hope if the one who finds it is you, this record will have meaning to you of some sort.