From: Luiz Felipe
Great shot - glad you made it. One of the places I scouted to return
and get the shot is not there anymore...
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John Sessoms escreveu:
I've had this image in my head for about 30 years now, and have
never been able to do anything with it until now. Never would
have been able to do this with film.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/3214812646/
That kind of happened with this shot. This church is a couple of blocks
around the corner from my house.
I bought the house I live in about 35 years ago. The winter with all the
snow storms that led the city to enact their gotta' have chains or 4WD
if you go out in the snow happened soon after.
I was walking back home from where my car was stuck when I saw the
church surrounded by the snow with a full moon rising just off to the
left. It's an image that stuck with me.
It doesn't snow much in Raleigh. I'd tried to get the image on film a
couple of times when it did, even though that meant waiting for years on
end until a winter when we had a snow storm. But I could never get a
decent exposure ... there's just too much tonal range for the latitude
of film. I did try combining different transparencies making masks using
lith film, but it was just too much for the limited facilities I had
access to.
In the meantime, the front lawn of the church has been replaced by a big
parking lot. They added a private school there, so the parking lot gets
scraped as soon as the snow stops so the parents and teachers have a
place to park when the school re-opens after the snow.
The shots from the angle I wanted to shoot from don't have snow in front
of the church. I can probably clone it in, but I'm not sure how I feel
about that.
From this angle, you don't see the giant sea of asphalt.
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