church
Another view of this church, taken on the same day, over a year and a half ago.
I just went by this place at Christmas, and it looked about the same. Maybe a few more shingles have blown away, and perhaps the building’s succumbed to gravity just a tiny bit more. But, mostly – the same.
Only this happened, and it’s not the first time: scenes that I’ve photographed always seem much smaller when I see them again. What’s with that? Also this: I shoot in color and convert to monochrome. But once I’ve converted a photo, I have very little (or no) memory of what the colors used to be.
(My mind: it’s scary in here.)
Young County, Texas
photographed 5.27.2012
Posted on January 13, 2014, in architecture, Photography and tagged 365 photo project, abandoned buildings, architecture, black and white, black and white photography, melinda green harvey, monochrome, one day one image, photo a day, photography, texas, young county, young county texas. Bookmark the permalink. 14 Comments.
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I admire both versions of this church. Although I like looking at things that are falling apart, in the case of both your photographs of this church I think what does it for me the most is the wonderful light, maybe especially in the clouds in this shot and on the grass in the other one.
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Thanks, Linda. One thing about shooting in the parts of Texas where I usually am is that there’s nearly always sunlight! In fact, I don’t think I know how to shoot in cloudy conditions….
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I like what Linda mentioned in her comment but the best thing about this particular photo is the framing. Outstanding!
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If I remember correctly, I chose the spot because it wasn’t full of angry red ants. There might have more to my decision, but that’s the part I remember….
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Not scary, not scary: interesting, creative, unique… I mean inside your mind…
PS: I love photos of tall growing wild grass.
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My son (Nathan, the one you read about on the other blog) has a mind similar to mine. He says his mind is powered by a ping-pong playing monkey. I don’t know what that means, exactly, but it would account for, well, a lot.
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Interesting to be able to make the comparison between the two shots, Melinda. I prefer the other one – to my mind the lightness and brightness has more of a spiritual feel to it, this one feels a little foreboding. I’m interested by your last sentence. When I convert an image to B&W that is always done in Photoshop and saved under the same file number but with a suffix ‘_BW’. That was the original RAW colour version is fully preserved.
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I keep the original RAW images as well. Because you just never know what else might need to be done on the photo. But while those original RAW shots hang out in my archive, and the modified versions live on the blog, I really do forget what the scene looked like in color; when I see one of the original photos, I usually say something to myself along the lines of, “Oh…that fence was GREEN!”
Thanks for comment comparing the two shots of the church. I very rarely sit down to work on a shot with the idea of making it look a particular way. If there were a way (an easy way, I mean!) of tracking my state of mind when I worked on the photos to the relative lightness/darkness of the final images, I wonder if a correlation would emerge?
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I love the textured foreground – one of your hallmarks, though not usually grass. Sad to see these buildings sagging into oblivion.
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That’s a good observation about the types of foregrounds I tend to have.
Also, I’d like to point out that photographers who are lining up this shot while wearing shorts have a fairly high risk of work-related scratches on their legs.
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Photographers wear shorts? I guess I am not a photographer. I do have a perpetually dirty and slightly worn knee (right hand side) on most of my trousers now though. Soon I will have to cut that leg off the pants. Do half-shorts make for half-photographers? What if they are shooting half-frame film cameras? Would that be quarter-photographer?
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Yes, your math is correct. Be careful – don’t add a half-pint of anything or have a half-ass attitude, or you’ll be in danger of multiplying yourself into oblivion.
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Fractions are always my undoing when it comes to math.
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Math is VERY dangerous. Please be careful.
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