Tag: churches
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Another Pentax ME
The dumbest thing happened to my Pentax ME. The cap that holds the winding lever on unscrewed itself and disappeared. That part turned out to be impossible to find, so I bought a battered body for parts. But then I couldn’t get that cap off it. The body seemed to work okay, so I just started using it. But…
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Arched door Canon T70, Canon FD 50mm f/1.8, Fujifilm Fujicolor 200 2014
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Captured: Kölner Dom
I spent the summer of 1984 in Germany on an exchange program with other Indiana high-school students. We spent a lot of our time in intensive language instruction, but we also traveled the country. One of our trips was to Cologne, where we toured the great Cologne Cathedral. The locals call it der Kölner Dom. The cathedral…
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Casual portraits on Kodak Tri-X 400
We had another pitch-in recently at church, and I took my camera along again. I was thrilled when several members were very happy to see my Pentax ME hanging from my neck and asked if I’d be sure to photograph them at some point during the meal. Morris was first in line, asking me to photograph…
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Church cornerstones
I love to photograph church cornerstones. I especially like the ones that quote Scripture. This one’s both clever and obvious. In Metea, they hew to Proverbs 3:6. This isn’t exactly a cornerstone. But no matter; I love its lettering. From Romans 1:16. This plate shows the common practice of naming the church and calling out…
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Scenes from a pitch-in
We call them pitch-ins here in Indiana. I guess people in most of the rest of the country call them potlucks. When people from out of state visit our church and we announce a pitch-in, the “hunh?” look on their faces always turns to an “Oh!” look when we say, “That’s what we call a…
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The urban mission
For Easter in 1914, a photographer made this panoramic image of the congregation at West Park Christian Church in Indianapolis. On Sunday, armed with my new iPhone that automatically takes panoramic shots, I tried to reproduce the scene. (Click either photo to see it larger.) Much has changed at West Park Christian Church in 98…
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Captured: Sunrise over the unfinished church
When my church announced its plans to build, neighbors on the side street next to our property flew into a tizzy, worried about Sunday morning traffic on their one-lane street. The only entrance to the property was on their street, so we promised we’d close it and put a new entrance on the main road.…