We were fortunate, indeed, to obtain permission from the copyright owner to use these rare and important photographs on our site. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do!
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Art Pieces
Confederation Square is at the centre of the downtown area of Ottawa. It is with 5 minutes walk to many of the major sights in the City – Parliament, The National Arts Centre, the Byward Market and others.
The Square itself is dominated by the National War Memorial and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. It is surrounded by 14 full sized bronze statues and busts of Canadian heroes known for their exploits in War. It is well worth spending sometime exploring this superb square. They are the work of Canadian artist Marlene Hilton Moore.
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We’ve modified the pictures section of the site by adding new pictures and a new system for viewing them. Check it out, we think you’ll enjoy it. And the best thing is, if you see a picture you like in either of the two presentations you can stop the show and download that photo to your desktop for your future enjoyment.
There are still two presentations:
1. for the churches we have visited, and
We work hard everyday to be better than the day before.
In our effort to ensure that our site is a leader in its field we are constantly exploring different things we can do to make your visit with us as enjoyable as possible.
Symphonic Recital, Notre Dame Basilica, Ottawa, Ontario
With that in mind, we have now added background music to each church page. Elevator music it most assuredly is not! We have installed some very nice classical music pieces. We try to have a different piece for each church and we think they will please you.
In fact, we’ve done away with the testing and we’ve installed music on all the church pages and more. Pick any of our churches in any of the volumes and have a listen. The music is set for you to chose to play it or not. All you have to do is press the small “play arrow” and stop it whenever you wish. But most of all enjoy! Remember that we have not touched the Slideshows.
If you like what you hear please let us know your thoughts!
Here’s a sample for you:
Play: Bach’s: Ouverture n.4, BWV1069 in D
Our music is provided by:
My youngest son Noël, who is an accomplished and excellent commercial chef, has now gone back to his first love, painting. He has an interesting collection and has had showings, primarily, in Vancouver. I’m very proud of the work he does and I hope you like it too. He now lives and works in Brockville, Ontario just south of Ottawa, Canada’s National Capital.
Here is one of his recent works.
To view more pieces from his recent collection, press on this link.
St Jerome by Marinus van Reymerswaele, 1490-1546
This is our presentation of original art pieces from the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries of the patron saints of the churches we have visited so far. More will be added as we add more churches to our “visted list”.
Well, scenery pictures don’t seem of any interest. So, because we concentrate on churches here are some of my favorite pictures from the 20 churches we have visited. You pick the ones you’d like to see featured in our proposed calendar for 2013.
For your troubles, we’ll send you a copy of our e-book – either Volume 1 or Volume 2 – your choice. Simply nominate at least one photo by sending us a comment at the bottom of this page and we’ll send you a link to download the book of your choice.
Let’s see just how many books we can give away!
Here are the 20 candidates for the 2013 calendar.
[left click on a photo to view it in larger format]
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- Cabatuan
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- Tubungan
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- Miagao
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- Alimodian
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- Tigbauan
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- Lambunao
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- Passi City
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- Pan-ay
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- Janiuay
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- Igbaras
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- Dingle
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- Anini-Y
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- Duenas
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- Leon
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- Dumangas
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- Guimbal
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- Pototan
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- San Joaquin
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- Oton
Along the Antique Coast
We are adding a new feature today. In our travels through Panay Island we are lucky to see some wonderful churches and equally nice scenery. We’re trying to indentify some of the better photos we have captured that could be classified as “calendar pictures”. We have added some and more will be added as we travel through the provinces. Lets us know which ones are your favorites and we’ll include them in our eventual calendar…to view the candidates click here
FOR EVERYONE WHO SENDS US A CALENDAR PHOTO NOMINATION BASED ON THE PHOTOS SHOWN IN THE CALENDAR PICTURES PAGE, WE WILL SEND YOU A COMPLIMENTARY COPY OF VOLUME 1 OF OUR SERIES OF E-BOOKS ON THE HISTORIC CHURCHES OF PANAY ISLAND. THERE IS A LIMIT OF ONE E-BOOK PER E-MAIL ADDRESS.
