Prayers & Photos

This is a group of OLD pics from last weekend when dma headed to St. James Cathedral. This is one of my favorite places in Seattle; I have been there quite a few times for the Friday evening Taize service.

Usual MSG
The pic below is a standard MSG style pic... using flowers in the foreground with the main destination in the background.

The Door

This pic is a close-up of the iron work on the door to the cathedral. It is such a beautiful door; it has simple images that tell stories from the Bible. DMA and I stood there in deep thought for awhile, thinking about the history that this door represents.

Blue, blue blue
This is the front of the cathedral. Pretty, yes? I used my gradient cokin filter then did a wee bit of editing to get that gorgeous blue sky.

This was the Place

... where I learned my first lesson about low-light shooting: you need to steady the camera. A few years ago, my mom and I attended a Mozart concert at the cathedral. While we were waiting to get in, I tried taking some pictures of the cathedral with my A520. I kept getting frustrated with the blurry images, even though I was using "night mode." The gentleman in front of us told me that to avoid camera shake I would need to keep the camera perfectly still, and suggested that I steady my camera on the side of the building. It worked, and from that day forward I have been steadying my camera in any random way I can in order to get the sharpest shots. It is a moment that changed my photographic approach; so I had to take a picture from the same spot, eh?

Inside

Well, we were lucky enough to make it into the cathedral, but only had a few minutes to take pictures (although, we always, always, always take our time, so we actually had about 20 or so minutes in there?). Anways, these are the two frames that I liked from inside the cathedral.

Thank you for checking out these photographs, I hope you have a lovely, beautiful day.