April 8, 2020
Mission Santa Barbara
I'd been to Mission Santa Barbara before, about 25 years ago with Madame, but I didn't have any really good pictures. So when the local photography meetup group scheduled a trip(I did have a bit of input into the planning), I signed right up. When we arrived, we found that the interior of the Mission was not open due to maintenance on the power lines in the area. I got some good shots of the mission's exterior, but really wanted some shots of the interior. A few weeks ago, I decided to see 3 missions in one day, with Santa Barbara being on the way home.
Mission Santa Barbara is known as the "Queen of the Missions", was the 10th of the 21 Spanish mission founded in 1786. It is the only mission with 2 bell towers in the chapel whose construction began in 1812 and was completed in 1820(the earlier chapels were destroyed in the 1812 earthquake). The interior of the chapel looks much the same as it did when it was completed in 1820. The bell towers suffered significant damage in the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake, but were repaired.
Read MoreI'd been to Mission Santa Barbara before, about 25 years ago with Madame, but I didn't have any really good pictures. So when the local photography meetup group scheduled a trip(I did have a bit of input into the planning), I signed right up. When we arrived, we found that the interior of the Mission was not open due to maintenance on the power lines in the area. I got some good shots of the mission's exterior, but really wanted some shots of the interior. A few weeks ago, I decided to see 3 missions in one day, with Santa Barbara being on the way home.
Mission Santa Barbara is known as the "Queen of the Missions", was the 10th of the 21 Spanish mission founded in 1786. It is the only mission with 2 bell towers in the chapel whose construction began in 1812 and was completed in 1820(the earlier chapels were destroyed in the 1812 earthquake). The interior of the chapel looks much the same as it did when it was completed in 1820. The bell towers suffered significant damage in the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake, but were repaired.
