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Inside/Outside
My favorite part of the chapel was the way the window design blurred the boundaries between inside and outside, making sitting in a pew in the chapel feel like sitting on a log in the woods.
Thorncrown Chapel
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
photographed 10.6.2018
Lights frame the view
This place had been a church and had later been partially renovated by new owners. It seemed apparent that they’d run out of money and/or interest by the time we were there, but this little string of lights was keeping vigil.
Centreville, Nova Scotia
photographed 7.28.2015
Churchyard
A wooden church. A graveyard. A misty day.
Three of my favorite things in one place.
And then there’s that dribble of white paint….
Rossway, Nova Scotia
photographed 7.28.2015
Ascendeth
The problem is that when I’ve got non-photographers with me, I am extremely aware of the fact their interest level and mine are not even close to the same. In this case, there were three people sitting in a car while I explored the church.
And, so, even though the light would have been completely different in here in another half hour*, I ended up shooting-and-dashing, in the interest of family dynamics. Please do not mention this to my photography teachers who advocate the “compose and wait” method…
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Brenham, Texas
photographed 11.24.2017
*Would it have been better? Or just different? Who knows – but it would have been a fun thing to find out.
Every Opportunity
Even the fence around the sewage-treatment plant has become a place to hang crosses in memory of loved ones.
El santuario de Chimayó
Chimayó, New Mexico
photographed 5.27.2018
