Stained Glass Windows

Links to pictures of Stained Glass

Stained Glass Photography

This is my own site. Be tolerant of imperfections, it is a work-in-progess and there is much still to be done. If you have the time browse around but if you just want to go straight to the galleries of images then click here, the folder labelled "Buildings" contains the most images.

Museum Quality Gifts

Some fine and unusual gift items with a common theme - Museum Quality. Here you will find some traditional stained glass panels made using the copper foil method developed and refined by Louis Comfort Tiffany and John La Farge a century and a half ago.

Frameable Art Cards

Beautiful cards incorporating actual photographic prints in a sumptuous, acid-free, archival Strathmore Art Card with matching envelope. A range of subjects includes Advent and Christmas themes, angels, saints and images of Jesus. They are blank so that you can personalise them with your own greeting.

Church Giftshops

A website where you can purchase gift items incorporating pictures of stained glass with part of the proceeds going to the churches which own the windows.

VerseTile

Buy your favourite poem, prayer or scripture on a framed tile or tile box as a lasting gift to treasure. Some of these also include pictures of relevant details from stained glass windows.

Ornaments incorporating stained glass designs

These are not suncatchers, the designs are on white porcelain. However, they are bright and colorful and have many decorative uses whether it be on Christmas trees, in shadow boxes or even being worn as outsize pendants.

My CafePress store

Stained glass designs, sometimes with prayers or scripture, on apparel, posters, cards, ornaments and other items.

The Vanderpoel Window by William Morris

This is a page I put together about a very special window. It dates from 1874 and can be found in Trinity Episcopal Church in Saugerties, New York. What makes it special is that it was the first stained glass window commissioned by the William Morris Company in England for an American client. It features design details by Edward Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown and William Morris and is a microcosm of the work of the Morris company in the 1860s and 1870's.

The Stained Glass Museum in England

A very informative and well illustrated website which has examples of windows going back 1000 years. Most of the images can be found in the catalogue section which is cross-indexed by date, location, designer and subject. If you can get to Ely, in England, the museum itself is worth a visit.

The Smith Museum at Navy Pier

It would be remiss of me not to mention the Smith museum. Although I have not yet had the opportunity to pay it a visit and the fact that at time of writing their website is not as rich in images as the UK museum, I am told that it is a splendid collection of windows. It is also important from a study and conservation standpoint.

A "How to" guide about photographing stained glass windows

This is just a page which describes my own methods. However, be warned that I am still in the dark ages and using a last-century camera and something called "film". I am fully cogniscent of the fact that technology has marched on and when funds permit I intend to try digital but I'm not there yet.

The technique is probably not going to change a lot with digital. Flash is an absolute no-no and a tripod is still going to be better than hand-held so that the film-speed can be kept low and the exposure times long.

When I do eventually make the switch to digital it will need to be via a Nikon SLR body so that I can continue to use my Nikon lenses but I have seen good results obtained from the digital equivalents of 'point-and-shoot' cameras.

The beauty of digital photography is the scope it affords for trial-and-error in determining the best settings and getting the best shots. Even now, after all the years I have been photographing stained glass windows, I still have anxious moments between the time I take the pictures and the time I have the processed slides in my hand.

Michelli's History of Stained Glass

This site deserves a special mention. Pippin Michelli is a highly accomlished Professor of Art History who has put together a history of stained glass which elaborates in detail about some of the techniques and styles. This is a valuable resource which has much depth and is rich in good links.

The Links Section from Stained Glass Photography

By no means comprehensive and, as with the rest of the site, very much a work-in-progress. Nevertheless if you want some good links to stained glass on the web this is not a bad place to start looking.

A lens about James of Ulm

Paul Helm's lens devoted to James of Ulm, a 15thC glassmaker who became the patron saint of glass-painters and other makers of stained glass.