christ chapel

An old photograph of a new church. This is one of my very first polaroids taken with a vintage polaroid 100 land camera. Scanned, photoshopped the contrast, gave it the sepia tone, posted it on my blog. Wa-la.

the congregation

"The Congregation" is a shot I'd been itching to get for months now. I'd seen these pigeons on this same overpass time and time again and always thought it'd be a great, humorous take on the stereotypical church ladies. But once I had the shot in mind either my timing was off, when I'd drive by they weren't there, or worse-I had failed to pack my camera for the day and so I'd pass up my opportunity, not a camera on me, cursing myself the whole way. This morning, I made sure to pack my camera in my car for this very purpose and whaddaya know, there they were, perched and ready to be preached to.

It's been a typical overcast, winter day, so I didn't have any sun to deal with, but still the sky is lackluster just the same, not even giving me good storm clouds to photograph. So, I did my artsy thing with photoshop, adding the vignette, and words, and the sepia tone until I thought it reached the proper balance of serious, religious undertone offsetting a group of gossipy pigeons on their 'pew' awaiting their pastor. It was well worth the wait.This next shot was just a different angle, and sort of lets you see the color and the lighting before I added all my 'magic'. It didn't work for the picture I had in mind, but gives you a better idea of all the birds that were on that ledge. There's just as many opposite them if I had panned to the right and took a shot as well. More to come.

creepy

This photo of a church in downtown Fort Worth is just a bit unsettling. The sun was behind the church causing the hot spot in the top right hand corner of the photo, but even the church fades into darkness the further away it is from my lens. I just thought it was a very haunting photograph.