Post your churches

[Corran]

St. Mary Basilica
Natchez, Mississippi
Speed Graphic / Pentax 35mm fisheye / TMX / Pyrocat

[Ron McElroy]

St. Mary Basilica
Natchez, Mississippi
Speed Graphic / Pentax 35mm fisheye / TMX / Pyrocat

Excellent Bryan. I also like the other one you posted on IG.

[Corran]

Thanks Ron! I think the one I posted here is my favorite, as the top beams echo the shape of the cross. Getting the image lined up just right is hard - just a little too left/right and the center beam will curve (as it did on a 3rd image), and you can't crop to fix it!

[r_a_feldman]

One of my first LF photos, from last summer, of the chapel at North Park Village, Chicago, the former Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium. Taken on an Okuhara half-plate field camera with a home-made 4x5 back, Schneider g-Claron 210mm f9, Ilford FP4. I still need to work out some kinks, as there is a light leak at the top right. I rephotographed the negative with a digital camera and adjusted the file in Microsoft Photo Editor for the posted image.

Bob

[FishyFishArcade]

I should have framed it to get the whole grave in at bottom-left, but in my defense it was a test shot while I was checking the new back on the camera was working properly. That's my excuse anyway...

Chroma 4x5
Fujinon NW 135mm f/5.6
Ilford HP5+
Ilfotec DDX 1+4 9 mins @ 20°
1/30sec @ f/32


Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Beighton, South Yorkshire by fishyfish_arcade, on Flickr

[Michael Kadillak]

I should have framed it to get the whole grave in at bottom-left, but in my defense it was a test shot while I was checking the new back on the camera was working properly. That's my excuse anyway...

Chroma 4x5
Fujinon NW 135mm f/5.6
Ilford HP5+
Ilfotec DDX 1+4 9 mins @ 20°
1/30sec @ f/32


Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Beighton, South Yorkshire by fishyfish_arcade, on Flickr

Very Well Done! What a marvelous place to make photographs. I can see about five more just looking at this image.

[FishyFishArcade]

Very Well Done! What a marvelous place to make photographs. I can see about five more just looking at this image.

Thanks Michael. It's the local church, so very easy to get to - a 15 minute walk away. One of the things we have in the UK is an abundance of old churches - pretty much every town and village in the land has at least one church that is potentially hundreds of years old. Bigger towns and cities have loads of them.

[Tin Can]

Chicago used to have a church and tavern on every block to serve the many immigrants that built them

Both are almost all gone, condemned for condos

Some of the biggest churches did not want me to photograph from across the street

I lived near the massive Ukrainian church, in Ukranian Village for a long time

No pictures...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrain...llage,_Chicago

[Michael Kadillak]

Thanks Michael. It's the local church, so very easy to get to - a 15 minute walk away. One of the things we have in the UK is an abundance of old churches - pretty much every town and village in the land has at least one church that is potentially hundreds of years old. Bigger towns and cities have loads of them.

I am going to have to get a trip over there with the 8x10 on the agenda. With that much visual potential I would be in hog heaven.

[FishyFishArcade]

I am going to have to get a trip over there with the 8x10 on the agenda. With that much visual potential I would be in hog heaven.

You'd get some amazing detail with 8x10.