Photo of the Week #5

This week’s photo is a cluster of lights over a local Hospice building, taken while going on a regular walk around the neighborhood. Other shots from this walk are in the “New Lens N’ Strap” album.

Photo of the Week #4

This week’s photo is First Lutheran’s bell tower. When the evening sun is coming in at the correct angle, you can see the bells in the tower, like you can here. It’s not quite springy enough for the trees to be budding new leaves.

Photo Of The Week #2

It was a hard choice for this week’s POTW. The BonesAndStones has some of the best work I’ve done so far. I think I’ve graduated from “suck” up to “could be worse”.

This photo, of the young woman sitting very still, wasn’t one of my planned shots. I had just finished taking the Wide-Angle view of the chapel (first runner-up for POTW), and taking pains to get her into that photo, I notice she had not moved at all. I shifted over a bit and got this image, luckily without any movement on her part. There was about 5 minutes of camera wankery before getting the shot (moving the tripod, focusing, metering, enjoying the practice organ recital going one).

I like the ambiguous situation this photo invokes. Is it a “Is that you God? It’s me, Jamiroquai” moment? Is it “OK, I’m here Mr. Church, but there’s nobody at the pulpit to Save me.”

I like the blue cast on the BigHuge pillar on the right. The pulpit and pew area were lit by tungsten lights, and that pillar was bathed in the light from the bizarro stained glass (which has a lot of blue in it)

Photo Of The Week #1

OK, it’s a trite and over-done thing to do, but I’ve started a “Photo of the Week” gallery. Each week, I’ll upload the best thing I’ve shot that week (or at least the photo I like the best). Who knows if I’ll stick with it or not, but at least I have the first week done! Plus I’m shooting with Torin this week, so I should have something good for next week. Look here, and/or at my PicasaWeb POTW Gallery on sunday or monday for the latest one.

This particular shot was taken on Good Friday at First Lutheran in Leechburg. I had the camera there to take some pictures of the space for the Spousal Overunit before she heads to a Liturgical Textiles seminar. For Good Friday we have the cross draped in black, and here you can see the eternal candle with the cross in the background. Not much was done to the image in post-processing, just white-balance adjustment, tweaking the brightness/contrast, and adding a little vignette.

The runner-up was the Organist’s BatPhone. It was hard choosing between that and this one for this week’s photo.