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Some lyrically describe the Augustinerstrasse as Mainz’s 5th Avenue or Champs Elysee.
Well, yes….
It’s an excellent place, but it’s somewhat short on width to compare favourably with those two.
Which wouldn’t have worried my mate Georg (Schorsch) Lautner (RIP) who used to have a gallery at the top end of the road and whose sketches and etchings are still the benchmark of Mainz graphic art of its type.
He wouldn’t bother about having to correct for parallax error and PSing images to death – he’d just ignore the fact that there are houses a couple of metres across the road from whatever he was sketching and metaphysically place himself 30 metres back to get everything in….
This is the Baroque façade of the Augustiner Church, the monastery church of the Augustine order in the 18th century and now a seminary church.
I think Schorsch would have quite liked the perspective……
Mainz Daily Photo 
>An arresting photo! Your and AL’s discussion about lenses makes me feel so incompetent! I just point and shoot, which is okay, I guess. Back to your photo: quite an angle–did you shoot it while lying on your back? I think I’ll resurrect snaps of my lampposts because I love those in your photo!
>I’m using an 18-70 lens (which equates to 27-105 in 35mm terms) and I’m very tempted by Tamron’s 10-20 kit. Which still wouldn’t do the job!
>Well it is quite a beautiful building and fitting for a church. The angle is nice too. I guess it would take a super wide angle to get the whole church in.