Trees Beyond
Across the broad lawn, a loudspeaker carried the sounds of Mass (in Spanish) almost as if the ghosts of the Spanish founders of the mission were still trying to convert the locals.
And I found a quiet scene unfolding beyond the ruins of a never-completed mission building.
Mission San Juan
San Antonio, Texas
photographed 9.6.2015
Posted on September 24, 2015, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, abandoned buildings, architecture, black and white photography, melinda green harvey, Mission San Juan, monochrome, NIK Silver Efex Pro 2, one day one image, photo a day, photography, postaday, san antonio, san antonio texas, texas. Bookmark the permalink. 5 Comments.
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It would have been a good thing for the original inhabitants had all the missions reached the “never-completed” status. Good for photographers too.
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We watched a film at the visitor’s center that only obliquely addressed the taming-the-savages part of all of this. And it didn’t even allude to photographers, if you can believe it!
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Photographers are often not detectable on the radar of film makers, as bizarrely unlikely as that might seem.
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Professional jealousy, I reckon.
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That would explain why the hire camera operators, not photographers.
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