This is a manipulation of a church I photographed last year after looking at it for 15 years and saying I wanted to shoot it. This will be my entry for the current contest and I believe it works well for Easter week.
Spectacular shot Kathy - great photography and manipulation - this will make an excellent entry into the current contest - it's the perfect image for Holy Week - Wishing you all the best of luck!!!!!!!!!!
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Wonderful capture. The actual structure of the church is beautiful, and the image really conveys a good feeling. Your work on this is spot on. Best of luck in the contest!
Oh my, what a crisp, clear photo and splendid manipulation...so well done and excellent for the contest...best of luck, Kathy...this one should do well.
Those are the good kind of subjects, the ones that will wait years for us to decide it's time to take a photo. I have a few of those around here, waiting for me, and a number of others where I'm waiting for just the right conditions to come to the same place and point. Being Catholic I am familiar with steeples; the second floor of our old one serving a bit as overflow seating, we guys sitting on dusty boxes and stack of hymnals during Sunday service. When I was a boy we'd get bored in that space and pass the time by tearing small strips of paper from old hymnal pages, rolling them into balls and dropping them through the rope holes in the floor onto the heads of parishioners standing in the foyer. That would go on until a roaming priest would come up the stairs to box our ears. Studying the steeple in your photo, Trix, I can't see how visitors could get to the upper floors in it except for circular stairs to the bells at the top, perhaps? This is quite the church... no wonder it's been waiting for you. Good luck with your entry.
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