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[northcarolinajack]

This is Centre Presbyterian Church in my home town of Mooresville. The church was established in 1765 and still going strong. The church in the photographs was built in 1854. In the gravestone shot one stone has the date of death of 1843 after a life of 84 years, so date of birth was 1759.
The church has been a source of faith to many in every war the USA as fought.

The interior and church from cemetery was with a very small Danforth 4x5 wide angle lens, wide open about F5 after wheel stops removed. The gravestones made with Cooke Series 11 8.2 inch lens at F11. Film was HP4.


Jack




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[Gary Sommer]

This little church was also built in 1854 and is still in regular use today.



5x7, Arista EDU 100

Gary

[LelandRay]

This is the Chapel of the Cross in Flora, Mississippi. It was built in the late 1850s on Annandale Plantation to host the wedding of the plantation owner's daughter. Her betrothed died before the wedding, however, and she married someone else, though she actually told her husband that he was her "second choice." All three are buried in the churchyard. The chapel is still in use one or two Sundays a month.

I shot this with my first Speed Graphic, using the focal plane shutter. The camera had a light leak I had sealed with automotive gasket compound. Film was Tri X, exposure unrecorded, exposed in about 1981 or so.

[Zaitz]

Not sure if this fits here but it is in a Cathedral.


St Paul Cathedral Statue 4x5 HP5+:



An older 4x5 negative that I never processed. I only had a super wide angle 75mm at the time and thought this was too vertical. I cropped a good bit off the top and was able to work the contrast a lot. I am going to try a Kallitype soon as I think that will work well here, but who knows.

I am happy with how it turned out and I'm glad I re-stumbled upon the image on my HD. It has given me some ideas to go back to the Cathedral with especially with 8x10 and a couple different focal lengths.

Crown Graphic
Caltar II-n 75mm f/6.8 @f/22
45 seconds
Rodinal 1:50 for 50 minutes.

[Jim Cole]

Zaitz,

That makes for a rather powerful image. Well done!

[Michael Wynd]

It's almost like a see through Dalek. Terrific shot Zaitz

[Steve French]

Wonderful Shot Zaitz !!!
Truly Majestic

[Petzval Paul]

Awesome, Zaitz!

[Zaitz]

Thank you Jim, Michael, Steve, and Paul! I appreciate the kind words.

[Zaitz]

This one didn't turn out how I wanted. Everything ended up muddling together. No depth or separation. Hard to imagine how the tones render in b&w at the Cathedral. Though I do enjoy composing there.



Calumet C1
Kowa Graphic 210mm
8x10 HP5
f/64
10 minute exposure. Metered at iso 320 f/22 13 seconds on my D300s. f/64 and reciprocity failure meant a long exposure. The negative looks great. The chart I have for HP5 has been bang on.