Temples, churches, chapels...

[Kushnirenko]

Kazansky Sobor.
Kharkiv. Ukraine. Olympus C-765UZ. Jun, 9, 2005

[Kushnirenko]

Map crop for previous post

[Kushnirenko]

Pokrovsky Monastery
Kharkiv. Ukraine. Olympus C-765UZ. March, 25, 2005

[Kushnirenko]

Map crop for post #3

[Kushnirenko]

Svyato-Ozeryansky Temple
Kharkiv. Ukraine. Olympus C-765UZ. Jun, 1, 2005

[Kushnirenko]

Map crop for post #5

[Geoff Chandler]

This is a thread I have thought of starting myself several times -
Thanks for posting these pics.
Hopefully well see some others from around the globe...
I will dig around and see what I have got - maybe a few nice English / UK
buildings?
I am a bit busy at the moment - working nights - but I will see if I can grab
a moment when I am at home

[Geoff Chandler]

Here's one ~ near Kemply in the vacinity of the Malvern Hills
(England)

[Geoff Chandler]

Inside the Church in Ledbury. (Malvern Hills)
England

[deadman]

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[Geoff Chandler]

Here's one of Ledbury Church - made from 2 pics
one was a portrait and one a landscape - different sizes/ zooms
and then a bit of quick cloning
Done using Autostitch

(There's a few others I posted on the page before, but it's gone over onto this page,
I always like to check that on these threads)

[meillana]

here are some pics of manila cathedral located in the walled city of intramuros, manila, philippines
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y281/meillana/Architecture/P1100594.jpg

[meillana]

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y281/meillana/Architecture/P1100638.jpg

[meillana]

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y281/meillana/Architecture/P1100622.jpg

[meillana]

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y281/meillana/Architecture/P1100614.jpg

[explorer]

St. Mary's Church, Chesterfield, UK..

http://www.pbase.com/explorer/image/52653120.jpg

[Kushnirenko]

The Kharkiv church

[Kushnirenko]

The Kharkiv church
Fragment and the first snow

[meillana]

St. Mary's Church, Chesterfield, UK..


nice shot of that interesting spire.... did you ask why it happened to be twisted?

[Phill D]

Yes nice shot of St Mary's. I drove past it a few weeks ago on a similar sunny day but didn't have my camera with me & vowed to go back & capture a shot to post. Looks like you travelled a lot further than I had planned to get that shot though. I'm no expert but I think the reason the spire is so twisted is that it was originally built with unseasoned timber & when it dried out that is what happened.

[explorer]

Yes nice shot of St Mary's. I drove past it a few weeks ago on a similar sunny day but didn't have my camera with me & vowed to go back & capture a shot to post. Looks like you travelled a lot further than I had planned to get that shot though. I'm no expert but I think the reason the spire is so twisted is that it was originally built with unseasoned timber & when it dried out that is what happened.

Phil, i thought it was the bad spirit that caused it to bend. LOL :D

[cayugan]

http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/mka22/Photos/buildings/slides/kocatepe_mosque001.JPG

http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/mka22/Photos/buildings/slides/kocatepe_mosque000.jpg

[cayugan]

http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/mka22/Photos/buildings/slides/kocatepe_mosque003.jpg



http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/mka22/Photos/buildings/slides/kocatepe_mosque006.JPG

[Esoterra]

Anyone here been to Salt Lake City? The Mormon Temple is quite the sight, especially the day after Thanksgiving where they light up all the trees on the acres of land. Here are a few shots I took in the freezing cold wintery night.

http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/5468/temple18wp.jpg

http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/2295/temple26sq.jpg

http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/466/temple36dc.jpg

[Kushnirenko]

Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. 28, Nov, 2005

[Kushnirenko]

Svyato-Ozeryansky temple. Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Dec, 4, 2005

[Kushnirenko]

Kind through a fencing. Svyato-Ozeryansky temple. Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Dec, 4, 2005

[Kushnirenko]

Svyato-Ozeryansky temple. Fragment. Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Dec, 4, 2005

[Kushnirenko]

The house of a pray of baptists. Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Dec, 4, 2005

[sbnr]

Mission San Luis Obispo...

[Kushnirenko]

Dome of a synagogue. Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Dec, 7, 2005

[lnsyone]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v226/lnsyone/aa2.jpg

Valley of Temples, Honolulu Hawaii

Photographed with a Sony Cybershot H1

[Kushnirenko]

Valley of Temples, Honolulu Hawaii
Photographed with a Sony Cybershot H1

Thank for a photo, lnsyone!
In this thread I also wanted to show all variety of religions and beliefs of mankind!

[Kushnirenko]

The crucifixion near the Kharkiv church. Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Dec, 12, 2005

[American Nomad]

A Lutheran Church in New Britain, Connecticut.

[Alina Borovikova]

monastery in Svyatogorsk, Ukraine

[Kushnirenko]

Svyato-Pokrovsky monastery . Kharkiv, Ukraine. Olympus C765UZ. Jun, 24, 2005

[Alina Borovikova]

shoted by olympus

[Alina Borovikova]

with holy water...

[Esoterra]

monastery in Svyatogorsk, Ukraine

I like this picture...

[Alina Borovikova]

I like this picture...
Thanks it's iportant to know this.....

[Geoff Chandler]

Westminister Cathedral, evening shot of top.
A-200, 80th sec, f3.2, ISO50, 70mm equiv

[Geoff Chandler]

No prizes for guessing this one!!
Winter time - it's getting dark by 4pm

[Fz5_newbie]

Thought the lights gave thiis archway character........

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11/toddler19/arches.jpg

[Kushnirenko]

Cathedral "Blagoveshchensky" Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Dec, 24, 2005

[Kushnirenko]

Present difficultly, but:
Church "Svyato-Dmitrievskaja". At the Soviet authority the cinema here was. Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Dec, 27, 2005

[Kushnirenko]

Church "Svyato-Dmitrievskaja". So it looked in a before last century. Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Dec, 27, 2005

[Kushnirenko]

Church "Svyato-Dmitrievskaja". Divine services are renewed in 1993. 2 shots. Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Dec, 27, 2005

[Norm in Fujino]

http://www2.gol.com/users/nhavens/resource/P4210875-01a.jpg

A Shinto jinja (shrine).

Records indicate this shrine has existed in some form since the 10th century or before. It was burned down once during the civil wars of the 16th century. The oldest of the current structures dates from 1724.

Olympus E-300, 14-54mm lens, RSE (test)

[fizbin]

More of a humble Church out in central Texas

http://www.fizbinphotography.com/images/posts/joppa_church_IMG_2987.jpg

[Ali_baba]

Camera: C-765

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/4670/p7240014largesmall1dm.jpg

[Ali_baba]

Seems that I should plan a trip to Ukraine :)

[Prospero]

The San Michelle in Lucca. Each collumn is decorated differently in some way. Two pictures have been stitched together to create this one, by the way.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/sanmichelle.jpg

[Kushnirenko]

Bell ringers. Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Jan, 07, 2006

[American Nomad]

This is two pics stacked on each other. I didn't have enough overlap to stitch them together. In downtown Boston, MA.

[bigger al]

great shots. Do you have any shots of the sistine chapel or other churches throughout Europe? I would appreciate it
Kind regards
Bigger al

[D70FAN]

About 2 blocks from old Route 66, this unique church is striking for it's white on dark stone construction and the gargoils that line the eves of the roof. Like other gallery projects other pictures of this church are part of a work (not quite) in progress.

[D70FAN]

Mission San Carlos Borromeo (or Carmel Mission) in Carmel, CA. This wonderful mission, built as part of a group of missions on the El Camino Real is also where the founder of most of the missions in California, Junipero Serra, is burried.

[American Nomad]

This is a Catholic Church in downtown Asheville, North Carolina.
Taken with my new wide angle lens received for Christmas.

[American Nomad]

Here is a closer detail of the artwork above the door.

[bigger al]

Hey all,
A quick thanks to all whom have posting photos of places of worship. Wherther it's a chuch, temple or whatever, the purpose is the same. Maybe we all should visit these places more often. Hope to see more soon
Kind regards
Bigger Al:)

[Drago Dundee]

are you a prist?
here is pic of a church in my country peru...
St la puta madre catholic church,llama chica peru...

[Bill Markwick]

are you a prist?
here is pic of a church in my country peru...
St la puta madre catholic church,llama chica peru...

Marvelous! How do you think of these things? :p

Are you using Photoshop or something else?

Regards,
Bill

[D70FAN]

Marvelous! How do you think of these things? :p

Are you using Photoshop or something else?

Regards,
Bill

Obviuosly you don't read Spanish. You might want to translate the name of the church.

[Buco]

Hmm I would guess from my little spanish I know that it interpreted it means: Son of a Biatch Catholic church? How WUDE!

[Drago Dundee]

could you imagine this miracle?????

[Drago Dundee]

i am using photoshop element 4,plus adobe photoshop cs2,.....
i am pleased that you like'it....



regards,
drago,d.

[Prospero]

Here is a picture of the ceiling of one of one of the chapels of the Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. Personally, I really like the angel in front as it adds some depth to the picture.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/angel.jpg

[Prospero]

great shots. Do you have any shots of the sistine chapel or other churches throughout Europe? I would appreciate it
Kind regards
Bigger al

Here is a picture of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. It was actually not allowed to take photographs there, so I had to make this one without flash or tripod. I could keep my camera steady by sitting down on one of the benches on the side of the chapel and holding the camera firmly between my knees.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/sistine1.jpg

Here is a picture of the most famous scene on the ceiling. I used to pictures to make this one, because I didn't have any which showed the hole scene (aiming your camera while holding it between your knees is surprisingly difficult ;) ) The image quality is not superb, unfortunatly.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/sistine2.jpg

[American Nomad]

St Marks Episcopal in New Britain, CT.

[cat]

Here is a picture of the ceiling of one of one of the chapels of the Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. Personally, I really like the angel in front as it adds some depth to the picture.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/angel.jpg

Agree totally - think the angel makes the picture a bit special, I love unusual angles! The lights are a bit distracting though - although not sure how you would get around that!!!

[Prospero]

Thanks for your comments. You're right about the lights, they are somewhat destracting. Though I do not think cropping them off would make the picture any better. Perhaps I should just have asked some priest to turn off the lights :D.

Here's another one of the same church:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/monk.jpg

[Drago Dundee]

i took a picture of the prist....:D

[zdzislaw]

hi drago d.

is this es 335 model ?
zdzislaw
ps. almost forgot...drago congratulations no more a junior
(rising my plum brandy glass ...)

[coldrain]

On Santorini, Greece

[Glenn Kennedy]

First of all, Coldrain, thanks for the memory of Santorini. I haven't been there for years. Long before I got my first digital camera. Long before I got a decent film camera, now I think of it.

There's one temple shot here. It's an old Khmer temple, datng back about 800 years. Older than Angkor Wat. Scene of many border disputes, it's on a ridge, in Cambodia, seldom visited by westerners just overthe Thai border.

A couple of other shots to follow, more for background than anything else.

[Glenn Kennedy]

The signs of a troubled past aren't far away.

A Japanese tourist is alleged to have stepped off the marked trail for a pee and blew himself up on an undiscovered mine a few years back.

I am no hero (big yellow streak down my back). I stayed on the paths and held on 'till I got to a regular toilet !

[Glenn Kennedy]

Last one.

This kid was dancing around in the ruins of the temple. An orphan, apparently. God knows what sort of a life she will grow up to have. Unloved, abandoned by her distant relatives, making a living on what she can scrounge from tourists.

What an insulated life we all lead, with our flashy digital cameras, etc, when half the world gets by on less than a dollar a day.

there but by the grace of god, go any of us here.

[sparky]

How about a church on fire? If this offends anyone I will gladly remove it.

[American Nomad]

coldrain, I enjoyed your photo.

Glenn, I enjoyed your words. So true.

[Joker]

Long Island...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v348/r3ckless/churchjpg.jpg


And St.Pats. It didn't come out too well, but this one's got a certain message to it, and if anyone's offended, I'll glady remove it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v348/r3ckless/OneWayjpg.jpg

[sherlock]

And St.Pats. It didn't come out too well, but this one's got a certain message to it, and if anyone's offended, I'll glady remove it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v348/r3ckless/OneWayjpg.jpg


Hey Joker,

I really like that picture and the message, wellif I interpreted it right lol.


Andrew

[tim11]

....
There's one temple shot here. It's an old Khmer temple, datng back about 800 years. Older than Angkor Wat. Scene of many border disputes, it's on a ridge, in Cambodia, seldom visited by westerners just overthe Thai border.
.......


Nice shot Glenn, That's Preah Vihear which marks the Cambodian-Thai border. The temple is Cambodia's but it's more accessible from Thailand. It's on the extreme part of nothern Cambodia and you will have to travel many long dusty roads from Phnom Penh to reach it. That's the one place I want to visit for personal reason but I don't have the chance so far. Do you have more photos of that temple?
Did you reach the area through Thailand?
Thanks for sharing.

[Kushnirenko]

Church. Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Jan, 31, 2006

[Glenn Kennedy]

Nice shot Glenn, That's Preah Vihear which marks the Cambodian-Thai border. The temple is Cambodia's but it's more accessible from Thailand. It's on the extreme part of nothern Cambodia and you will have to travel many long dusty roads from Phnom Penh to reach it. That's the one place I want to visit for personal reason but I don't have the chance so far. Do you have more photos of that temple?
Did you reach the area through Thailand?
Thanks for sharing.

Well spotted, Tim! Definitely impressed !

Yes, the boss (wife) and I were staying in Ubon Ratchathani province (NE Thailand) for a few days after Christmas and we went over the border with our delightful Thai guide (Ning). The exact spelling for the name of the place seems to vary a bit from book to book, website to website. I have more piccies of the place than you could possibly ever want to see. I am out for the night tonight. I'll try and post a few more in a day or two. It's well worth a visit - but it'd be a helluva long way from Phnom Penh. Even from Ubon it was a 2.5 hour drive each way. Worth it though.

[Prospero]

Here's a picture of an ancient greek (or etruscan, I'm not certain on that one) temple in Paestum, near Naples. Some say these tempels are more beautiful than those on the Acropolis in Athens. They are in comparison to these tempels in a much better condition.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/temple.jpg

[Glenn Kennedy]

Prospero,

Some nice pictures you've posted here and there.

It is Greek, not Etruscan, is about 2500 years old, and looks in far better condition than the Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens which did suffer slightly when a Turkish arms dump exploded inside it in 1687 - the Venetians were shelling the Turks at the time.

Plus ca change, plus ca meme chose. The sheller and the shelled may change about a bit - that aside not much changes, does it.

Your temple is the Temple of Hera. I've been to Naples (for a short time) but didn't know this place was nearby. Is it far away - and did you like Naples itself??

[Prospero]

Glenn,

Thanks for correcting the details and giving some information on the temple :).

Paestum is about 100 km away from Naples. During rush hour, when the traffic is horrible, it would take you a couple of hours to drive this distance. When we visited the region we initially planned to camp in Sorrento, which is a lot closer to Naples, but we didn't really like the camping there. Therefore we decided to go to a camping in Paestum.

Unfortunatly, we took the wrong road and ended up driving on the very narrow Amalfi-route. It was so busy on the roads we arrived in Paestum late in the evening. The next day we came to the conclusion that Paestum was too far from Naples to visit this city and all the other touristic highlights in the region, so after visiting the tempels we ended up going back to the camping in Sorrento from where we visited Naples, Vesuvius, Pompeji, Capri and more.

I liked Naples. It has a nice atmosphere. Also, there are many beautifull castles, churches and other buildings. The traffic in this city is horrible, though. You really have to be careful crossing the road. Cars tend not to stop for red traffic lights. It's really a chaos. On the whole its a nice city. However, you cannot compare it to for instance Rome, Venice and Florence.

Here is a picture of a church in Naples, by the way:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/church-napoli.jpg

[penz]

Here is a church in Maastricht, The Netherlands.
This was taken with a Finepix 3800.

http://penz-world.com/churchdusk.JPG


This is the Dom in Trier, Germany.
This was taken with a throw away camera.

http://penz-world.com/domtrier.jpg

[Glenn Kennedy]

[QUOTE=Prospero]


"I liked Naples. It has a nice atmosphere. Also, there are many beautifull castles, churches and other buildings. The traffic in this city is horrible, though. You really have to be careful crossing the road. Cars tend not to stop for red traffic lights. It's really a chaos. On the whole its a nice city. However, you cannot compare it to for instance Rome, Venice and Florence. "

Prospero, You're right - it isn't Rome, etc, that's for sure ! My first impressions of Naples may have been a bit harsh - thought it was a seedy run-down mess (speaking of seedy run down messes - ever been to Belfast??)

I took one look at Naples and immediately headed off down that narrow road to Amalfi for a week's walking (too many steps up and down hills). We started at coast-level each day, walking up to this sort of height and back down again in the evening. Quicker and easier by bus - but not as much fun(?)

[Esoterra]

Great shot Glen. I especially like the clouds.

[Prospero]

Amazing picture ! I would have loved to walk there, but somehow I can almost never convince my family to take such a walk. Anyway, when I was there (in the summer) it was way too hot to go for such a long walk.

Exploring the peninsula of Amalfi and Sorrento is a lot of fun as well, though. Lots of great curves and nice views. Also, it doesn't really make you tired :). We drove to Ravello from where there was a nice view on the coastline (not as nice as the one you've just posted, though):

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/panorama/amalfi-ravello.jpg

Just to stay on topic, here's just a random picture of the Duomo of Milan taken from my huge collection of pictures of Italian churches. I guess I have seen a bit too much of Italy the last couple of years :).

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/milan-duomo.jpg

[Prospero]

Prospero, You're right - it isn't Rome, etc, that's for sure ! My first impressions of Naples may have been a bit harsh - thought it was a seedy run-down mess (speaking of seedy run down messes - ever been to Belfast??)

Here's a picture that illustrates your point of Naples being a seedy run down mess. This church is maintained so badly that there is grass (or some other type of vegetation) growing on top of it. I had never seen something like that before in Italy. All churches I have seen in other regions were either in mint condition or in the process of reconstruction.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/napoli-grass.jpg

[sherlock]

Hey,

Wow great shot of that intricate church Prospero! Those are the times you wish for a tilt/shift lens ;) Well here's my contribution, the Three Churches in Nova Scotia, Canada (yes that's what they are called, even though there are actually four there). Fuji 3800. Enjoy:


Andrew

[Prospero]

I forgot to mention that that shot of the church is actually a stitch of two photographs I took with my previous camera, the Olympus C-450. Any errors in the perspective are a result of the stitching.

By the way, nice picture of the three (or four) churches, Andrew.

Here are two pictures of Isola San Giullio in Lago di Orta in Northern Italy. The island has been named after Saint Julius, who has cleared the island of snakes and demons. Now there is a large church and monastry on the island.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/orta1.jpg

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/orta2.jpg

[Kushnirenko]

Cathedral "Uspensky".
The left shot- 1971. Right - 2005. Trees have a little grown. ;)

[Prospero]

Nice comparison between these two shots, Kushnirenko. The difference in the tree size is amazing. It's always startling to see how fast things are changing, don't you think?

Here's a picture of the twin churches in Rome. The two churches are largely identical except for having been mirrored.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/twinchurch.jpg

[GabOrcinus]

http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/4378/dsc002316qa.jpg

The 1560 Catedral San Basílica, in Cuzco-Peru. You can notice a reconstruction 'patch' on one of the towers. It was destroyed in an earthquake in the 1970s.



http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/2497/dsc003045ag.jpg

Me reading. :p



http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/6158/dsc003793gc.jpg

Part of the gold altar. We weren't allowed to take photos from inside. :(

[Prospero]

Nice pictures, GabOrnicus. It's a pitty you were not allowed to take pictures inside. I always hate it when they do not allow photography, because I think the most beautiful part of most churches can be found inside. OK, i can understand that flash may hinder those who go to the church to pray, but if you switch it off, it shouldn't be too much of a problem, right?

Anyway, here's a picture I took in a church in Genova, Italy, last year. I don't remember the name of the church, but I believe it was the Jesuit church near Piazza di Ferrara (or was it Ferrari).

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/eyes.jpg

[GabOrcinus]

Nice pictures, GabOrnicus. It's a pitty you were not allowed to take pictures inside. I always hate it when they do not allow photography, because I think the most beautiful part of most churches can be found inside. OK, i can understand that flash may hinder those who go to the church to pray, but if you switch it off, it shouldn't be too much of a problem, right?
Thank you, Prospero. Actually, the reason they gave us was that they didn't want to take the risk of illegal copies of the paintings and sculptures being made.

Besides, with my FZ5 I wouldn't be able to take a decent photo, without flash, inside the cathedral.

Yours are very beautiful pictures too. :)

[Prospero]

Thanks, Gabornicus.

If they ban photography for that reason, it's not likely to have any effect. If someone really would like to make illigal replica's of one of these works, they would get the picture sooner or later anyway. It's easy to take an illigal photograph, you just behave normally and wait until nobody is watching. That way I for instance took pictures in the Sistine Chapel, I posted them a couple of pages back. (I'm not planning on painting a replica of that one on my ceiling, though ;)).

Don't say your FZ-5 is not able to take a decent picture without flash in a church. I took all the pictures taken in churches with a Olympus C-450 point and shoot. Your camera is much better than that one. If you use a tripod, or rest your camera on something (e.g. a church bench) I think you can take absolutely amazing pictures with your FZ-5.

[GabOrcinus]

Thanks, Gabornicus.

If they ban photography for that reason, it's not likely to have any effect. If someone really would like to make illigal replica's of one of these works, they would get the picture sooner or later anyway. It's easy to take an illigal photograph, you just behave normally and wait until nobody is watching. That way I for instance took pictures in the Sistine Chapel, I posted them a couple of pages back. (I'm not planning on painting a replica of that one on my ceiling, though ;)).
They're trying to make it harder to do that, I suppose.

I guess it's like shoplifting. They can make it harder for you with cameras and guards, but if you really want that pair of gloves you'll take it sometime. :D


Don't say your FZ-5 is not able to take a decent picture without flash in a church. I took all the pictures taken in churches with a Olympus C-450 point and shoot. Your camera is much better than that one. If you use a tripod, or rest your camera on something (e.g. a church bench) I think you can take absolutely amazing pictures with your FZ-5.
Hmm... I messed up. I took them with this (http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/cameraDetail.php?cam=562) camera :p. But I was talking about the FZ5's performance at 200-400 ISO.

[tim11]

Well spotted, Tim! Definitely impressed !
.......
The exact spelling for the name of the place seems to vary a bit from book to book, website to website. I have more piccies of the place than you could possibly ever want to see. ......
As you name the picture 'Khao Phra Vihan', it is definitely Thai, while Cambodians call it Preas Vihear (in common tongue). You are right the name varies from book to book since it can be Thai, Khmer written in French, English, Latin, Sangkrit; etc. The temple was at flash point again even as recently as late last year, and I'm surprised you visit it last Christmas.
You shouldn't be too impressed with my knowledge of the temple since I was born in Cambodia. I had seen too much in a few incident that was forgotten (or ignored) by the world not far from that very temple. That was 1979... and a very long story.
I am keeping an eye for your next post of the temple and the surrounding area, hopefully. I could be wrong here but I think tourists can only reach it from Thailand.

[JTL]

Canon S2, ISO 50, f/5, 1/250, 39mm
http://JTL.smugmug.com/photos/55807159-L.jpg

Below is one from inside. Sorry it's a little soft and not up to my usual standards, but they don't "let" you take pictures inside (bastards). So, I had to put my camera on mute, hold it a waist level and attempt to use the tilt/swivel display to surreptitiously take shots. Several people (who are not quite as devious as me) were escorted away from the alter area for "allegedly" taking pictures (fascist bastards). It is pretty amazing inside, and I wanted my memories and wanted to share those memories, so screw them...here it is....

Oh, by the way, I DID NOT apply any noise reduction to this shot. So don't let people tell you that the S2 is no good at ISO 400...because that is just a steaming heap of rubbish...

S2, ISO 400, f/2.7, 1/8 sec, 36mm
http://JTL.smugmug.com/photos/55807995-L.jpg

[Glenn Kennedy]

Tim11

with a name like "Tim", i didn't think that you might be Cambodian! Tim sounds too wasp-ish - if you know what I mean. Life here has been chaos (endless trips to Scotland and England over the last 2-3 weeks). So, I'll try to get a few more posted over the weekend.

Specific incidents from the bad days in your country are largely forgotten in Europe, now. However, I'm old enough to remember "Year zero" and some of the terrors that followed. You did well to get out.

Certainly I got there from Thailand. It's about a kilometer or two to walk from the car park. From the Cambodian side - it would be an hour's climb - once you got to the base of the ridge, assuming you could even get that far.

[Glenn Kennedy]

A few more shots of a far-flung corner of his (once) troubled land. The Cambodian guy who followed us round, selling postcards, told us that the Khmer Rouge had shelled the place several times during their bloody reign. Across the Thai border, the evidence of previous conflict is still there. Concrete dugouts line the hillsides. The postcard seller pointed out a shell casing buried in a rock and claimed it was a Khmer Rouge shell. I doubt it. If it was real - it would have exploded. If it didn't explode - it would not have been left there for us to trample over (I hope !!). I haven't tried to level any of these as the place is a bit higgledy-piggledy and decided what's level and what's not wasn't possible.

[Glenn Kennedy]

More of the same

[Glenn Kennedy]

the Cambodian village from which the postcard seller walked every day (an hour or so of a climb he said)

[Glenn Kennedy]

Almost there - I promise

[Glenn Kennedy]

another shot of the Cambodian orphan (see p 8 of this thread). I assume she made the climb up from the plain below every day too.

The inequality in this world is staggering.

[zdzislaw]

castlemaine, victoria

zdzislaw

(not as heart breaking, glenn....)

[danielg]

Very nice sir!! :)

[tim11]

A few more shots of a far-flung corner of his (once) troubled land. ........

Thanks Glenn,
Nice (and rare) photos indeed. Believe it or not this is the first time I saw many photos of Preah Vihear from different angles. All I saw was those in books and they were always the same angle.
I was born in different part of the country but I had ONCE IN A LIFETIME honour of crossing one of those live mine fields. The year was 1979 and I was one of thousands Cambodian refugees trucked for hours from Aranyaprathet to drop off at some point not far from the temple; all were herded and pushed off that ridge back toward Cambodia. It happened because Thailand couldn't handle the sudden influx of refugees - so they said.
I notice the area around the Cambodian village as bare of vegitation? I remember seeing jungle as far as eyes could see and it took us days (or weeks?) to reach the first village.
I didn't do well to get out of it, it was just lottery. Well, it was just one of the many craps that happened around the world.
I went back to Cambodia a few times now but haven't been to that part of the country yet. Maybe next time.
Glenn, Thanks again for the photos.

BTW: I did agonise if I should post this reply. At the end, after taking out graphic details I decided to post away since one of photography main aims is about bringing back memory; whether good or bad. There is no more bitterness on my part though. I'm too busy with present life and improving my photography whenever I have spare time.

[Glenn Kennedy]

Tim11

Life was a bit difficult in Northern Ireland in the 70s and 80s, too. However, nothing by comparison with what you and your people went through.

We can all be thankful that the bad days are behind us, hopefully for ever.

Glenn.

[Prospero]

Thanks for sharing your story, Tim. You really have been through a lot.

Here's a picture of a church in Rome overlooking Piazza di Spagna (the famous Spanish stairway). The church was in restoration, and sponsored by Bulgari.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/sponsor.jpg

[tim11]

Thanks Glenn and Prospero,
That was the lowest but (thankfully) last chapter of my hard time.
I want to go back to the place and replace bad memory with better ones; that's why I want to see those pictures. :)

[Kushnirenko]

Cathedral "Uspensky" in the morning. Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Feb, 14, 2006

[Kushnirenko]

Entrance in a monastery "Piously - Pokrovsky".
Court yard of a monastery "Svyato - Pokrovsky" -
http://www.dcresource.com/forums/showthread.php?p=104503#post104503 Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Feb, 14, 2006

[Glenn Kennedy]

Kushnirenko - all that snow. If we get more than about 5 cm - the whole country stops.

A picture from a recent holiday. No snow anywhere.

Grand Palace Bangkok, Thailand

35C

[Kushnirenko]

Kushnirenko - all that snow. If we get more than about 5 cm - the whole country stops.

A picture from a recent holiday. No snow anywhere.

Grand Palace Bangkok, Thailand

35C
Glenn, you the visionary! A snow and palm trees. Similar on the script film - accident! ;)

[Prospero]

A church in Voltera, Central Tuscany, Italy. It is a pretty old one; if I remember correctly it originates from the 12th century or so. The style of the front wall is indeed medival, a style which has often been imitated in the Baroque.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/church-voltera.jpg

[zdzislaw]

twenty first of century williamstown(just trying to be smart...)
sorry prospero, no punt...
( but i like yours, have seen them all,honest!!!)

zdzislaw
ok,ok i take it...;)

[Prospero]

twenty first of century williamstown(just trying to be smart...)
sorry prospero, no punt...
( but i like yours, have seen them all,honest!!!)

zdzislaw
ok,ok i take it...;)

I'm sorry for including so much useless detail with the picture. I did that because I wanted to post a picture of a Baroque church afterwards as I thought it made a nice comparison. However, as it turns out I have no pictures of churches of which I am certain they have been build in the Baroque, so the information is now really useless. I'm sorry if it seemed I was only trying to be smart.

Here's a picture of another church, the Santa Maria Novella in Florence:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/church-baroque.jpg

[zdzislaw]

prospero...

enjoy your pictures,
enjoy your writing,
hope you watch mine,
the thread is so serious, so i tried different approche,
nothing wrong with details,
just me ,bit of 'a wise guy'...
i have fun with pictures,
taking them,
or commenting upon...
dont stop,
hope to see more of yours,
(your pictures taking me places)

kind regards

zdzislaw

ps on my way to work,will post more soon...

[Prospero]

prospero...

enjoy your pictures,
enjoy your writing,
hope you watch mine,
the thread is so serious, so i tried different approche,
nothing wrong with details,
just me ,bit of 'a wise guy'...
i have fun with pictures,
taking them,
or commenting upon...
dont stop,
hope to see more of yours,
(your pictures taking me places)

kind regards

zdzislaw

ps on my way to work,will post more soon...

I'm sorry, I think I took your previous post a bit the wrong way :o. Must be because I'm really tired...
I agree with you that the thread is really serious. Taking a different approach really is not that bad an idea.
Of course I won't stop posting pictures here ;). I really love showing my work to people all over the world. Moreover, it's nice to watch the pictures of others, including yours, from different places. Your right, pictures can take you to other places :).

Here's another picture. It's an example of optical illusions in the Sant'Ignazio di Loyola in Rome. The people of this church wanted to have a dome on their church, but sadly they could not afford it and the people in the monastry did not want their view to be ruined by yet another dome. So they made a compromise. They hired a famous painter - can't remember his name - to paint dome in the church. If you enter the church it seems to be a genuine dome (though somewhat darker then that in other churches). However, if you stand right underneath it, you will see it's all optical illusion.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/optical-illusion1.jpg

[tim11]

Some thing different from SE Asia.
Snapshots of Buddish temple from North Western Cambodia. I can't wait to go back taking proper photos of the place.

http://www.geocities.com/tim_ung/storage/100_0979.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/tim_ung/storage/100_1000.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/tim_ung/storage/100_1001.jpg

[tim11]

I'm sorry for including so much useless detail with the picture. ........
Depends on what you mean by useless detail....
Personally, I would want to see some details describing the place - what/where/why/when. The places maybe familiar to some but not to others on different parts of the earth.
I don't find your details useless at all.

[Prospero]

Depends on what you mean by useless detail....
Personally, I would want to see some details describing the place - what/where/why/when. The places maybe familiar to some but not to others on different parts of the earth.
I don't find your details useless at all.

Thanks Tim.
Like I said before, I misinterpretted Zdzilaw's post and overreacted a little. So you can just ignore that post, I was not making any sense then... :o.

Nice pictures of these Buddhist temples in Cambodia.

Here's a picture of the Duomo in Florence. This picture shows the front wall of the church which has been completed in the 18th or 19th century. The rest of the church originates in the Renaissance.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/duomo-firenze.jpg

Here's another picture of the same church I already posted somewhere else, I think it was the panorama-thread. It is a stitch of three photographs.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/panorama/duomo-small.jpg

[Glenn Kennedy]

Keep the details, Prospero. Otherwise it's just a building.

Incidentally, it really pi**es me off that everywhere you go, every nice shot you set up has a bloody piece of scaffolding somewhere!! (e.g. Top of Dumo, on your last post)

[Prospero]

Keep the details, Prospero. Otherwise it's just a building.

Incidentally, it really pi**es me off that everywhere you go, every nice shot you set up has a bloody piece of scaffolding somewhere!! (e.g. Top of Dumo, on your last post)

Those scaffoldings are indeed very annoying. I get that way to often. Why didn't they make those buildings more durable ;)??? However, the scaffold in this picture is really not that bad. I have seen worse cases. When I was in Milan I wanted to visit the Duomo of Milan, which is famous for its famous facade. Guess what, the entire facade was scaffolded :(. And when I was in Florence I paid quite some money to enter the Gallerie di Medici. Once I was inside it turned out that the entire interior was scaffolded.

I have no clear pictures of either cases. I threw them because of a lack of memory space. On this one you can see only a small portion of the giant scaffold on the duomo of Milan...

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/scaffold.jpg

[D70FAN]

Thanks for the pictures prospero. Descriptions and histories very much appreciated.

[Kushnirenko]

Cathedral "Uspensky". Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Mar, 04, 2006

[Glenn Kennedy]

It's too cold to go out. This was taken over Christmas in Bangkok.

Grand Palace, with the Temple of the Emerald Buddha in the background with some mondops in thre foreground.

Some PS fiddling to correct converging parallels

[Glenn Kennedy]

And another, same time same place with my (now) sick Nikon...

More PS tweaking to make the golden spires point straight up !!

[Prospero]

Hey Glenn,
Nice pictures. Sorry to hear about your Nikon. What kind of disease is BGLoD, anyway. I hope it's not contagious :eek:.

Here's another picture of a church in Italy. Well, San Marino actually. The church is dedicated to Saint Marinus, the founder of the republic San Marino, the oldest republic which still excists.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/sanmarinus.jpg

[Glenn Kennedy]

BGLoD = Blinking Green Light of Death. Not uncommon in early D70 cameras (like mine). An electrical fault causes it to lock up. Won't turn on, and the green LED indicating memory card access blinks continuously. Stuff-all else happens.

I suppose the good news is that Nikon recognise the problem and will (allegedly) fix it free.

I'll find out on monday, when I call them.

[JTL]

WOW Glenn! What cool shots of a really cool place!

Looks like now I have to go to Thailand as well!!! :D
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Hindu temple, Chittaurgarh, Rajassthan, India...

Canon S2, ISO 50, f/4, 1/60, 35mm
http://JTL.smugmug.com/photos/58648900-L.jpg

Lots more from India to come...:D

[Glenn Kennedy]

Some really nice shots from India starting to appear here and there, JTL.

Was it work or fun that took you there? I'm trying to get a trip there in 2006/07 - but no success yet ! I think your owl is an Indian Eagle Owl (take a look at http://www.owls.org/Species/bubo/indian_eagle_owl.htm) but I am not even an amateur !!

[JTL]

Some really nice shots from India starting to appear here and there, JTL.

Was it work or fun that took you there? I'm trying to get a trip there in 2006/07 - but no success yet ! I think your owl is an Indian Eagle Owl (take a look at http://www.owls.org/Species/bubo/indian_eagle_owl.htm) but I am not even an amateur !!Thanks Glenn! :)

It was purely a fun visit (except for when I returned to Delhi to find Bush and thousands of protesters had virtually shut down the city!). I'll be traveling to Hyderabad on business later in the year and will take that opporutunity to explore South Central India...

You really should go. I was there for two weeks and barely scratched the surface. I only saw Dehli and parts of Rajassthan (was not able to get to the Jain temple at Mount Abu...so I have to go back). I estimate that it would take 6 to 8 weeks minimum to get a full picture of the place...so, you better get started! :D :D :D

[tim11]

It's too cold to go out. This was taken over Christmas in Bangkok.
....
A man from Ireland finds it too cold in Bangkok? I find that hard to believe.
Glenn, how do you make the vertical lines perfectly parallel? Software?

[Glenn Kennedy]

Ah, no - not exactly. It was too cold to go out last weekend, here at home. I have never felt even remotely cold anywhere in Thailand !

The processing was done in CS2. I was trying to improve on this perfectly awful shot using filter / distort / lens correction, then reducing the edge transparency to about 70, to allow room for image distortion and to keep the top of the mondops (or are they chedis - the gold things, anyhow) in the picture, then adjusting the vertical perspective (by eye, in this case to about -60) to make the verticals vertical. After that - crop, resize, etc.

takes about 1-2 mins, once you've done it once or twice.

[Prospero]

Ah, no - not exactly. It was too cold to go out last weekend, here at home. I have never felt even remotely cold anywhere in Thailand !

The processing was done in CS2. I was trying to improve on this perfectly awful shot using filter / distort / lens correction, then reducing the edge transparency to about 70, to allow room for image distortion and to keep the top of the mondops (or are they chedis - the gold things, anyhow) in the picture, then adjusting the vertical perspective (by eye, in this case to about -60) to make the verticals vertical. After that - crop, resize, etc.

takes about 1-2 mins, once you've done it once or twice.

Thanks for sharing your method of reducing the perspective. I always used to do this with the crop tool with perspective ticked on. Though this is faster (less than 30s), your method is more accurate by far. I'll try to remember that one ! :)

Sometimes, when adjusting these things I always wonder how far you can go. After all, isn't it natural to have some vertical perspective in your picture considering that you shot it from a lower point of view? However, the picture certainly does look better this way.

[Glenn Kennedy]

Sure, prospero, vertical perspective exists - but not to the extent shown in the "before" shot above. "Free transform" in CS2 works as well - but I haven't figured out how to stop the top of the image going "off frame". that's where the reduction in "edge transparency" comes into its own. There's bound to be other ways of doing this - I just don't know (or can't remember) them. That's the onset of senility, I guess.

[Prospero]

Sure, prospero, vertical perspective exists - but not to the extent shown in the "before" shot above. "Free transform" in CS2 works as well - but I haven't figured out how to stop the top of the image going "off frame". that's where the reduction in "edge transparency" comes into its own. There's bound to be other ways of doing this - I just don't know (or can't remember) them. That's the onset of senility, I guess.

You're right, in the before shot is too extensive (though I cannot really judge because I have never been there).
To stop the top of the image going "off frame" when using free transform, I suppose you could just increase the canvas size in advance. Besides that I wouldn't know any other ways of doing this either (or I'm getting senile as well ;)).

[Glenn Kennedy]

Damn and blast!! When I was fiddling with this over the weekend, I couldn't see how to resize vertically in free transform. Tonight, it worked first time, That is senility. The method I used in the original post is, I think, a slightly more controlled way of getting the parallels parallel.

Bad hair day today. i'm off for a walk across the fields, to calm down, before it starts raining....

[Prospero]

A Catholic church with a Roman facade on Forum Romanum in Italy.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/forumromanumchurch.jpg

[Prospero]

Here is a picture of the Baptisterium of Pisa.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/baptisterium-pisa.jpg

[avi777]

St. Philomena's church in Mysore, India

[avi777]

Side View of the same church

[avi777]

Was quite late in the evening. Someday I'll hafta take this pic in the afternoon. Not in the near future though

[Glenn Kennedy]

It looks so solidly Victorian/English/Gothic in style. Hard to belive it's in India - memories of the Empire are long-since gone.

[avi777]

The memories will always remain I guess. There are some awesome churches in Goa, India too. Someday I'm gonna go there and get some pics for this thread, if someone doesn't do it by then :-)

[maksla]

Cathedral hill

[JTL]

The Jama Masjid mosque in New Dehli....the site of a terrorist double bombing on Friday, 4/21...

http://JTL.smugmug.com/photos/65578823-L.jpg

[maksla]

Недавно восстановленный храм.

[rhesusv]

http://static.flickr.com/49/144463126_7ba7122aea.jpg

The LArgest Church in MOSCOW

[Kushnirenko]

Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Jun, 21, 2006

[Kushnirenko]

Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Jun, 21, 2006

[Glenn Kennedy]

Rhesusv


The Largest Church in MOSCOW[/QUOTE]

What's it called?? I was in Moscow many, many years ago and cannot remember the place too well.

[mickisdaddy]

I recently got a Nikon D50 and went on my first photo excursion. Here is a little church that I saw on my way.

http://www.sportscardsource.com/wilhelmfamily/photos/others/picture025a.jpg

It looks a lot more blurry than it actually is. When I reduced the picture it got a lot more blurry.

Let me know what you think.

Sean

[maksla]

Rhesusv


The Largest Church in MOSCOW

What's it called?? I was in Moscow many, many years ago and cannot remember the place too well.
He was recovered about 10 years back. After revolution of 1917 he was blown up and in his place long time there was a pool.

[Peleg]

I found this on some private property here in Alaska.

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g29/Peleg/FixerUper.jpg

[Prospero]

Here's a picture of the church of the monastry of Montserrat. I took this picture with the Sigma 10-20:

http://prospero.cabspace.com/pictures/montserrat1.jpg

[AllanC]

the first picture is of Carcassonne cathederal taken from the old cite walls. The second is of a small church nestled directly under the walls of the cite.

[Kushnirenko]

Pantelejmonovsky cathedral.
Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Oct, 04, 2006

[Esoterra]

Here is a classic view of the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City.

http://chrisross.smugmug.com/gallery/2019560/1/103442186

[toriaj]

Very nice. My favorite is #2. I like how you framed it with the foliage. I've been thinking about going down to photo the temple, too. Now I want to do it more! (As they say, imitation is the best ... you know the drill. :D ) Do you know when they put up the lights?

[JMBZ71]

St. Augustine Church - New Diggings, Wisconsin. Built in 1844 by Father Samuel Mazzuchelli.
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l7/JMBZ71/Rustic%20Fence/St-1.jpg
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l7/JMBZ71/Rustic%20Fence/St.jpg
JMBZ71

[Esoterra]

Very nice. My favorite is #2. I like how you framed it with the foliage. I've been thinking about going down to photo the temple, too. Now I want to do it more! (As they say, imitation is the best ... you know the drill. :D ) Do you know when they put up the lights?

Yup! The Lights go up the day after Thanksgiving... but its awefully crowded. Seeing that you are not too far away, try going there the second week of December for less of a crowd. Because Its a long drive for me, I will have to make do with the crowds the day after Thanksgiving or that weekend. I look forward to seeing you post your results.

[rawpaw18]

I was asked to take a picture of my church for the directory. It is a very plain structure, so I tried shooting at dawn to add a little something to it. What I did not see was the falling star I captured at the time, only after loading it up on my pc.

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[toriaj]

That's a beautiful shot! How long was your shutter speed? Really lucky that you caught the falling star there. Did you make it into the directory?

[rawpaw18]

I had the shutter open for just 1 second f/3.5. Shot with a tripod using a two second timer. I was just lucky. The shot is not without its flaws but they want to use it on the cover of the brochures, which are seen even more than the directories. Wow, my first cover shot!

[FLiPMaRC]

St Paul's Cathedral in Malta from last August
http://ct.pbase.com/g6/58/693558/3/69211225.MlcpMutM.jpg
http://ct.pbase.com/g6/58/693558/3/69211234.RxgPYATI.jpg
http://ct.pbase.com/g6/58/693558/3/69211244.iyKRwMMk.jpg

The rest of the pictures are here: http://www.pbase.com/flipmarc/st_pauls_cathedral&page=all

[Prospero]

I had the shutter open for just 1 second f/3.5. Shot with a tripod using a two second timer. I was just lucky. The shot is not without its flaws but they want to use it on the cover of the brochures, which are seen even more than the directories. Wow, my first cover shot!

Very nice shot, Rich. No wonder they want it on the cover of the brochures. The falling star adds something divine to the shot.

Before you mentioned the settings for a moment I thought the falling star might have been the trail of an airplane, but an exposure of just one second definitly rules that out.

[T06]

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[T06]

........................

[T06]

...because I thought this to be a thread worthy of bringing back to life

[avi777]

Pics were taken during once of my rare trips. Always in a hurry, no time to use a tripod

http://inlinethumb56.webshots.com/1591/2784206480088440057S600x600Q85.jpg

http://inlinethumb49.webshots.com/2352/2449821620088440057S600x600Q85.jpg

http://inlinethumb19.webshots.com/2642/2387184490088440057S600x600Q85.jpg

http://inlinethumb35.webshots.com/2402/2080799990088440057S600x600Q85.jpg

http://inlinethumb08.webshots.com/199/2197044100088440057S600x600Q85.jpg

http://inlinethumb25.webshots.com/280/2136387030088440057S600x600Q85.jpg

http://inlinethumb27.webshots.com/282/2208690010088440057S600x600Q85.jpg

http://inlinethumb13.webshots.com/2636/2742531040088440057S600x600Q85.jpg

http://inlinethumb21.webshots.com/1812/2791107800088440057S600x600Q85.jpg

[sbnr]

I recently went to Mission San Juan Bautista [spelling], California.

Here's a few shots:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v314/snbr21/San_Juan_1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v314/snbr21/San_Juan_5.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v314/snbr21/San_Juan_4.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v314/snbr21/San_Juan_3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v314/snbr21/San_Juan_2.jpg

[tdfugere]

St-Gervais, Paris, front and back
Sacré-Cœur, Paris in sepia
church of Genté, France
clock tower of the church in St-Porchaire, France
St-Pierre-le-Vieux ruins at Maillezais, France
Ruins of St-Étienne, Marans, France
Doors of St-Martin-de-Ré on the Île-de-Ré, France
Detail of Sacré-Cœur water spout gargoyles, Paris
Another detail of Sacré-Cœur, Paris

[Prospero]

Nice pictures of the churches in Paris, tdfudgere.

Here are two pictures of the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft. Both were made of 7 exposures that were blended and tone-mapped with photomatix.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/157/421353309_48fd5ed76c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennis87/421353309/)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/177/421353507_979d0c3c3d.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennis87/421353507/)

[TheInstaller]

I'm new here, and to taking more than just snapshots. I got these shots after work while trying to learn about adjusting the stops.

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q54/theinstaller72/Night%20Shots/100_0213.jpg
Camera model: KODAK Z612 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA
Flash used: Yes (manual)
Focal length: 11.7mm (35mm equivalent: 70mm)
Exposure time: 0.500 s (1/2)
Aperture: f/3.2
ISO equiv.: 200
Whitebalance: Auto
Metering Mode: matrix
Exposure: Manual
Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q54/theinstaller72/Night%20Shots/100_0216.jpg
Camera model: KODAK Z612 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA
Date/Time: 2007:04:05 20:07:08
Resolution: 800 x 601
Flash used: Yes (manual)
Focal length: 13.2mm (35mm equivalent: 78mm)
Exposure time: 1.300 s
Aperture: f/3.2
ISO equiv.: 200
Whitebalance: Auto
Metering Mode: matrix
Exposure: Manual
Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing

[sbnr]

Here's a chuuuuuuch high in the Sierra's.

[SpecialK]

The Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California.


From the eastern "Point".
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The tower on the north side, and a statue named "The Smiling Jesus".
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The southern side, with a double reflection of the Welcome Center and Tower of Hope (?)
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The walkway through the point.
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And, there is this alternative...
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[jjlaughner]

http://www.jjlaughner.com/photography/scottishchrurchindy1.jpg
http://www.jjlaughner.com/photography/scottishchrurchindy2.jpg
Some hand held snapshots... Canon XTi ISO 1600, 1/50sec, tokina 28-70 F2.8 at 28mm, F2.8

[Alina Borovikova]

Uspenskiy cathedral. Kharkiv. Ukraine

[zmikers]

Here's a temple in Taiwan. I liked this one the best for two reasons. First, I just plain like the composition, but second, luckily, this was the only place a could shoot from to get rid of the ugly buildings in the background. What do you think? C&C always appreciated!:D

[SpecialK]

St Casimir's in Los Angeles

[toriaj]

Here's a temple in Taiwan. I liked this one the best for two reasons. First, I just plain like the composition, but second, luckily, this was the only place a could shoot from to get rid of the ugly buildings in the background. What do you think? C&C always appreciated!:D

Beautiful, zmikers! I love the composition, and the B&W suits it very well. I'm no expert in B&W conversions, but this one looks pretty good to me. Very nice!

[Bynx]

Nothing special about this. Simple picture with some added Photoshop alterations to improve the appearance.

[Packt]

Here's a few of the Notre Dame in Paris

http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n73/gnurlam/DSC04373.jpg
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n73/gnurlam/DSC04541.jpg
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n73/gnurlam/DSC04540.jpg
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n73/gnurlam/DSC04544.jpg
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n73/gnurlam/DSC04945.jpg

[Benjamin2007]

Was browsing the archives and came across this thread, so thought this would be a good place for my latest photo of St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, taken from Potts Point at night in Manual mode supported by a brick wall and the lens cap for some elevation under the lens:

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Exif: Manual exposure mode, 3sec, F5.6, ISO400, 35.8mm (in a 6.3mm to 63mm range), Pattern metering, WB/Focus auto, Sharpness Hard, Flash off.

PS: Packt, hope you're still active in Forum land, I really liked your shots from Notre Dame, Paris.

cheers,

[tim11]

Good shot of St Mary's Cathedral, Ben. I think we are treading the same ground.
I just found 2 of the same cathedral here. I admit the original were a touch over exposed but since I shot in RAW I can manipulate the colours a bit here.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m116/tim11_2006/buildings/N71212039nx.jpg

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m116/tim11_2006/buildings/N71212046nx.jpg

[Benjamin2007]

Hi Tim,

That's a great photo of St Mary's, what PP did you do with it?
It's much better than anything I've taken, but then the whole PP caper is a whole new world for me, the only things I do are with the bundled software that came with my camera, i.e. FinePixViewer, which transfers, organises, views and permits basic processing. I've yet to venture into the world of GIMP, Lightroom, Elements etc... cann't decide on what to use, need to do more reading about it all and perhaps trial a few trial versions of various programmes etc.

Anyhow, that's ^^^a great shot! :)

cheers,

PS: I really enjoyed your Sydney Aquarium shoot with the F30 btw :)

[toriaj]

Great shots, both of you.
Benjamin, when are you going to get a DSLR? You absolutely have the eye and the knowledge for it :D
Seriously though, I'd spend your money on a DSLR before on PP programs. Unfortunately there's probably not too much you could do with your Fuji images (other than "playful" manipulations like stretching someones head.) You need a better quality image, less noise, hopefully RAW :) to really excel in the PP.

BTW, if your camera is supported during a night shot, I'd say knock your ISO back down as low as it goes and extend the shutter speed. You'll probably get less noise that way.

I hope my post wasn't discouraging ... I'd just love to see the right equipment in your hands, you'd be a standout :)

[tim11]

Here's a few of the Notre Dame in Paris
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n73/gnurlam/DSC04540.jpg


Hey Packt, Some impressive shots of Notre Dame you have there; especially the one from the back. This is the first time I realised, the view from the other side is more impressive and intimidating. Thanks for sharing.

[tim11]

Hi Tim,

That's a great photo of St Mary's, what PP did you do with it?
It's much better than anything I've taken, but then the whole PP caper is a whole new world for me---

Thanks Benjamin,
I use Nikon Capture NX to bring out more from RAW. I totally I agree with Toriaj - I think the difference from yours and mine is that the camera and PP, and I can get more from a DSLR. I only do basic post processing stuff and you can get a lot more from it; but I can't be bothered. :D

Now that I think about it, Toriaj did have an excellent advice for you. There is really no reason to shoot in high ISO if you use manual mode and a tripod for put the camera on a flat surface. Only raise to next level of ISO, if certain ISO setting doesn't give you enough shutter time for a good exposure.

Thanks for the comment about my Sydney aquarium shot with F30. I thought it was dead. I think I will have to revisit it with a D80.

[Benjamin2007]

...Benjamin, when are you going to get a DSLR? You absolutely have the eye and the knowledge for it :D
..., I'd spend your money on a DSLR before on PP programs. Unfortunately there's probably not too much you could do with your Fuji images ...You need a better quality image, less noise, hopefully RAW :) to really excel in the PP.

BTW, if your camera is supported during a night shot, I'd say knock your ISO back down as low as it goes and extend the shutter speed. You'll probably get less noise that way.

I hope my post wasn't discouraging ... I'd just love to see the right equipment in your hands, you'd be a standout :)

Dear Tori

Thanks very much for your kind words of encouragement, you really were being very generous. :)

I totally agree with the lower ISO longer shutter speed idea to reduce noise in my shots, particularly in a night shot if the camera is supported.

I guess I'm pushing the Fuji to its limits in my night shooting.
The limits btw are:
Min.-Max. shutter speed: 4 seconds - 1/1,000sec
Max. & Min. aperture: f/3.5-3.7, & f/13.6
ISO: 64, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600
Min.-Max. focal length: 6.3mm (38mm, film equiv')-63mm (380mm, film equiv')
Sensor size: 1/2.5" or 0.4in (i.e. a standard compact image sensor), with
Resolution: 7.1MP (effective MP)

The St Mary's shot was taken at 400ISO, 3secs & f/5.6, I guess I could've lowered the ISO to 200 and upped the shutter speed to 4secs, but to drop the ISO further to 100 or 64 would've meant opening the aperture from f/5.6 to f/4 or f/3.5, just do-able, within the camera's limits, but I wanted to maintain a smaller aperture for greater DoF (to ensure the whole of the cathedral was in focus, but then again I am using a Fuji ultrazoom/compact and not a dSLR, so even at f/3.5 it has a pretty deep DoF, ... (oh well, that was the idea...).

I also totally agree that the best PP starts with a good image, I cann't remember who wrote it (I think it was in the Self Portrait Thread) but he wrote something like: "You cann't turn chicken shit into chicken salad" referring to the same issue. lol ;) (Pungent, succinct, but so true! :))

I can certainly see the Fuji's limits in image quality due to the sensor size, MP density, lens elements/construction etc and it'd be great to upgrade soon, but my circumstances wont permit that for a while yet. I was hoping to buy around August (best case scenario) or September this year, but I may have to wait a while longer still.

I was thinking of trialling GIMP in the interim so I could take advantage of the Fuji's exposure bracketing feature and maybe do some HDR's with the resulting 3 Jpeg files, but when I upgrade, probably to the D80, I will probably eventually just get Capture NX to do the RAW processing (although I was wondering about the pro's/cons of going with the Lightroom/Elements combo', more food for thought/research...:))

BTW, once I realised how to use the exposure meter to obtain a correct exposure in manual mode I've been having a lot of fun experimenting with different combinations of the exposure variables to try to obtain a creatively interesting exposure. Its amazing that you can actually do that with the Fuji, within its limits!

Once again thanks for the encouragement. :)

cheers,

[Benjamin2007]

Now that I think about it, Toriaj did have an excellent advice for you. There is really no reason to shoot in high ISO if you use manual mode and a tripod for put the camera on a flat surface. Only raise to next level of ISO, if certain ISO setting doesn't give you enough shutter time for a good exposure.

Thanks for the comment about my Sydney aquarium shot with F30. I thought it was dead. I think I will have to revisit it with a D80.

I agree too! :)
Aquarium shoot dead? Not dead, not even forgotten, .... you just need to know how to look or search for the older threads, .... The default display lists posts made in the last month, you can change the time period and take it back to the "beginning" which lists posts from 2005 on. In the Photo Gallery thread that results in about 90pages of posts, which makes interesting browsing on a wintery Sunday afternoon. :D

cheers,

[n20capri]

Arch Street Methodist in Philly
http://www.mikemartinelli.com/ImageFolders/_MeGina2-24-07/IMG_0153.jpg

http://www.mikemartinelli.com/ImageFolders/_MeGina2-24-07/IMG_0154.jpg

http://www.mikemartinelli.com/ImageFolders/_MeGina2-24-07/IMG_0157.jpg

[toriaj]

Benjamin, thanks for your long reply :) I can understand financial situations, I'm there myself. You might have fun with the Gimp. I like Capture NX, I'm still learning how to us it to "heal" a pimple on a face, etc., but I know it can be done. I find myself using Paint Shop Pro (equivalent to Elements) much less now. I like Lightroom too, the interface is much easier to work with, but it can't do as much as Capture AFAIK.

[JPW2020]

...is a small river estuary in Hampshire south of England.The setting shown in the first picture dates back about 500 years and includes a very nice hotel (far right building)and a tiny chapel ( 3rd building from the right ) close up in the 2nd picture.

[tim11]

.... I like Capture NX, I'm still learning how to us it to "heal" a pimple on a face, etc., but I know it can be done. ...
Clone tool on Photoshop or Paint Pro would be more effective and much easier.

[SpecialK]

A Mormon Church of Latter-Day Saints in Newport Beach, California.
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And the the temple next door.
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Two churches in Fullerton, California, a block apart.
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[Benjamin2007]

Benjamin, thanks for your long reply :) I can understand financial situations, I'm there myself. You might have fun with the Gimp. I like Capture NX, I'm still learning how to us it to "heal" a pimple on a face, etc., but I know it can be done. I find myself using Paint Shop Pro (equivalent to Elements) much less now. I like Lightroom too, the interface is much easier to work with, but it can't do as much as Capture AFAIK.

Hi Tori
Thanks for the feedback about the software you like and use, apart from the names that part of digital photography (the digital darkroom/PP) is still largely unknown to me, but I agree with you (from your earlier post) that I should prioritise the upgrade on the camera first and worry about the software later.

I guess my earlier reply was a long-winded way of saying "Thanks for the compliment, advice & encouragement" :) (I guess I can get a little too focussed on trying to communicate what I'm thinking and feeling when it comes to discussing photography, part of the passion I guess...:o:)).

Here is another photo of St Mary's, same vantage point as the earlier photo, taken in the soft light of the late afternoon, about 5pm:

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(Manual exposure mode, 1/40sec HH, f/3.5, ISO100, 42.8mm (in a range 6.3-63mm), Pattern metering, WB/Focus auto, slightly cropped to remove some distracting tree branches in the foreground)

cheers,

[Benjamin2007]

n20capri, JPW2020, & SpecialK, wow there's quite a bit of variety in the facades and architectural styles of the places of worship that you've posted, ...I'll have to take a few photos of some of the synagogues around Sydney to add to the mix! :)

cheers,

[CodyBorrowman]

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j98/MADZUKI/Zeus.jpg

[Maverik]

took this my first time out with a camera... I think it looks ok.

[Bynx]

A few churches I have been studying. Each has interesting features.

[SpecialK]

Three views of the Immaculate Conception catholic church in San Diego.
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I could not divine the name of this apparently Jewish synagogue in the Victorian Village section of Old Town San Diego.
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The first of Father Serra's California missions, in the Presidio of San Diego.
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[SpecialK]

Roca del Salvacion in Ramona, Califonia.
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St. Elizabeth in Julian, Calfornia.
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Baptist church in Julian.
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[Benjamin2007]

Bynx & SpecialK, again I like the variety of your selection of shots. :)
Bynx, I like the domes and art-work of the Macedonian/Eastern Orthodox church and the sky and lead-light windows of the other church have beautiful colours.

SpecialK, the unnamed synagogue in Old Town San Diego was definitely a synagogue, apart from the Stars of David, the two tablet shapes at the peak of the roof and the semi-circular arches, as opposed to the pointy arch of the gothic-style which is favoured by christian churches, are strong indicators, as well as the Aron Ha'Kadesh (literally Holy Cupboard :p;)) or Arc of the Covenant, inside at the front, where the Torah scrolls are kept.

Here are a few photos of a few synagogues in Sydney.
The first is the facade and entrance to the main sanctuary of my own synagogue (the main sanctuary is used by the Progressive/Reform minyan), built in the 1930's (or perhaps 1940's), although the brick-work looks a little boring, amongst the brick-work are feature bricks/tiles with Jewish motifs on them (I'll have to take a few macro shots to highlight those details).
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To the left of the courtyard, in front of the main sanctuary, there is another smaller sanctuary for the Conservative/Masorti minyan (not a great photo...):
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One of the stained glass windows from the small sanctuary:
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Below the home of the oldest Sydney Orthodox congregation, The Great Synagogue (opposite Hyde Park):
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Front-door detail from The Great Synagogue:
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regards,

[cmaw63]

A small country chapel I pass on the way to work...

[SpecialK]

In the mission built in 1776 in San Juan Capistrano. The altar is about 300 years old and came from Spain.
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[SpecialK]

Literally just on the other side of the wall of the mission above is Mission Basilica.
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[SpecialK]

Hollywood United Methodist church.
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Good Shepherd Catholic church.
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[tkbslc]

Cathedral of the Madeline, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Taken with a Samsung L100

[SpecialK]

Wayfarer's Chapel on the Palos Verde peninsula in Southern California. Built by Frank Lloyd Wright's son, Lloyd. It is almost all glass.

Tower and chapel.
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The fountain. It seems a wedding is in the works.
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Looking at the garden.
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The steps to the chapel.
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I think this is a practice run.
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Tower and chapel.
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[SpecialK]

The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.
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The ugliest church I've ever seen.
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It looks like unpainted plywood, but that is the color of the masonry.
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[SpecialK]

This is a Hindu temple known as the Malibu Temple. It is actually closer to Calabasas than Malibu, in Southern California. No shoes, tobacco or non-vegetarian food allowed inside.
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[FLiPMaRC]

Some old pics from last year.

I've forgotten the names of these Churches.

#1
http://www.pbase.com/marcjosef/image/87395202/large.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/marcjosef/image/87396829/large.jpg


#2
http://www.pbase.com/marcjosef/image/88656072/large.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/marcjosef/image/88656075/large.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/marcjosef/image/88656095/large.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/marcjosef/image/88656107/large.jpg


#3
http://www.pbase.com/marcjosef/image/91195325/large.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/marcjosef/image/91195296/large.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/marcjosef/image/91195315/large.jpg

[FLiPMaRC]

#4 Fiesta - Santa Catharina
http://www.pbase.com/marcjosef/image/87393333/large.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/marcjosef/image/87393338/large.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/marcjosef/image/87393346/large.jpg


#5 Taormina, Sicily
http://www.pbase.com/marcjosef/image/88648820/large.jpg

[GabrielC]

Very nice pictures guys! Allow me ot post some of mines - a very old church in Bucharest...

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[DownByFive]

#4 Fiesta - Santa Catharina



#5 Taormina, Sicily


Great pics! I studied abroad for 10 months (2003-2004) in Malta and loved it. Also visited Taormina, which is great. Hopefully I'll get to go back. I really wish I'd had a better camera back then, but I made do with my 3mp Powershot. BTW, #2 is Ta' Pinu on Gozo and #3 is the Mosta Dome...I know I've been to #1, but my memory is too fuzzy to pinpoint the exact church.

[DownByFive]

I wish I'd had more time to think about this shot, but the little girl was only there for a second...Mormon Temple in SLC, btw...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3212/2795587048_828e89736b_b.jpg

[toriaj]

great job, db5.

[tkbslc]

Here's some from my recent visit to the Salt Lake City LDS (Mormon) temple. Taken with my trusty Fuji S700 and then severely overcompressed :):

[FLiPMaRC]

Great pics! I studied abroad for 10 months (2003-2004) in Malta and loved it. Also visited Taormina, which is great. Hopefully I'll get to go back. I really wish I'd had a better camera back then, but I made do with my 3mp Powershot. BTW, #2 is Ta' Pinu on Gozo and #3 is the Mosta Dome...I know I've been to #1, but my memory is too fuzzy to pinpoint the exact church.

:cool: Nice! I know what you mean. All these shots were with my S3 IS.

[Kushnirenko]

Kremenchuk, Ukraine. Jul 2008.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3090/2673640426_116439d2cc.jpg?v=0 (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3090/2673640426_14d1c08e89_o.jpg)

[GabrielC]

Kremenchuk, Ukraine. Jul 2008.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3090/2673640426_116439d2cc.jpg?v=0 (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3090/2673640426_14d1c08e89_o.jpg)

Very interesting one, what is it ?

Meanwhile, let me post you two shots in Oradea, Romania

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The same church viewed by / with the statue ...

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Which one you consider better?

[Spookonthe8ball]

Nice shots. I prefer the one without the statue. It has a better composition and sky color. The statue would be better without the shadow, but when you are there shooting, there are some things we can't control. Keep up the good work.
Spook

[JakeNsa]

This is a Mission in San Antonio, TX. This was my first trip out with my Canon 20D w/18-55mm lens. I'm an amateur. Let me know what you think!

[SpecialK]

Nice pictures, but 3 suggestions:
1. Level the horizon.
2. Keep them to about 900 pixels high or wide on the forum (reduces scrolling)
3. Put a blank line betwwen the images so they don't run together on the page.

[GabrielC]

This is a Mission in San Antonio, TX. This was my first trip out with my Canon 20D w/18-55mm lens. I'm an amateur. Let me know what you think!

Fully agree with SpecialK, plus the following:

1. I like the second picture the most, composition, lighting and subject
2. In the first I think if you moved several steps to your right you had
about the same view but with different angle from the sun and probably a better color for the sky.
3.The third one - probably a good ideea would have been to step back and frame the full facade - the top is cut in your photo.

Overall - nice pictures with good subject. A little overexposed to my taste
though.

[GabrielC]

Nice shots. I prefer the one without the statue. It has a better composition and sky color. The statue would be better without the shadow, but when you are there shooting, there are some things we can't control. Keep up the good work.
Spook


For the second photo, the shadow was there and actually it was even deeper than it looks in the photo. I did not want to force it in photoshop,
as I prefer to keep the images as little altered as possible.

Thank you for your comment

[Gintaras]

my small contribution to this thread. never knew such a thread existed here.

#1 Heart of Jesus Church in Graz, Austria

#2 the same church from inside

#3 Catholic Cathedral in Mariazel, Austria

#4 The Church near the UN city center in Vienna

[Benjamin2007]

Gintaras,

An interesting set. I particularly liked the first and second shots! :)
What camera settings did you use for the second shot, the one indoors, and did you do any pp on it?

cheers,

[GabrielC]

Another two, also from Oradea:

Church included in the front street houses (they started maintain old buildings here ...)

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The entry door from the church in previous post...

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And a church tower

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[SpecialK]

St. John's in Orange, California.
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[GabrielC]

Some images from an old church (300+) in Bucharest, called Stavropoleos...

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[Budo7]

First time posting as well as being brand new to taking pictures and editing them.
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g83/Budo7/chapelholy1.jpg

[D70FAN]

Wow it's been a while for this thread. You would think that this subject would have unlimited photo's...

Here is one of the images picked up on Hiway 88... An old goldfield area (Lost Dutchman Mine) near the Superstitions.