> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Behind The Photograph: Beverley Minster Sunrise. - URL: https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/behind-the-photograph-beverley-minster-sunrise/ - Published: 2026-08-18T21:46:36.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-22T17:50:56.000Z - Author: Andy Marshall - Tags: art, photography, architectural photography, advocacy of photography, Behind The Photograph, Photography and Composition, Photography and Meaning **It isn't just one photo - but a set of photos that took around ten years to make**. I'd always wanted to get the shot, but the clouds had their part to play in stopping me from getting the ultimate photograph. These images are my most published. They appear in books and magazines and posters, prints and postcards. If anything, these images display the variety of ways a photographer can influence the viewer's emotional response. A photograph isn't merely a point in time - it holds within its two dimensionality and composition the ideas and thoughts of the originator, the subject and ultimately that of the observer. The image below shows the minster in context - an image that uses the landscape to scale down the huge behemoth of a building - it asks questions of our place in this world, the universe. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/revue/items/images/014/374/698/original/original-23.jpg) Our place in the world. This image shows the grandeur and scale of the minster, but in a softened way - the cuticle sun offers up hope of new beginnings. There's a spiritual feel to the photo. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/revue/items/images/014/375/940/original/original-21.jpg) New beginnings. By simply moving my position around 10 minutes after the above image was taken, I was able to capture the photo below. It is a photo that is celebratory in tone. The scene was completely orchestrated by my position and is a powerful reminder of the photographers input into an image. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/revue/items/images/014/391/247/original/original-36.jpg) A celebration. I've moved again (not too far) and captured a photo that converts the imposing silhouette of the minster into a permeability that raises questions about man versus nature. Here the sun is seemingly engulfing the north tower with its presence. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/revue/items/images/014/375/950/original/original-22.jpg) Permeability. I wrote about my experience photographing the Minster in Amateur Photographer magazine. Shortly after it was published I tried to capture the sun rising again at Beverley, and came across a group of amateur photographers with the magazine in hand trying to capture the same image. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/revue/items/images/014/376/002/original/original-25.jpg) Some of these images also appear in the book by Jonathan Foyle: Beverley Minster, History, Architecture and Meaning. I was commissioned to take most of the photos for this book including the cover. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/revue/items/images/014/376/000/original/original-24.jpg) ![Unruly Orb by Andy Marshall](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/revue/items/images/014/374/707/web/cover-1524233740.jpg_resize-281200_630_crop-29.jpg) --- Andy Marshall’s Genius Loci Digest Email address Join the weekly journey – it’s free ↗ Joining… Free. 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