The different qualities of light and its impact on a photograph continue to amaze me. I photographed this church -- St. Paul's Lutheran in Boone County -- one afternoon and returned the next morning.
While I like the clouds in the afternoon picture (top), the quality of morning light (bottom) creates a much different image of the church itself. The lack of interest in the sky also centers attention on the church and the direction of the light gives the church some dimension.
A plain, blank sky like the morning shot disturbs me a little, but I may eventually decide that I like the way church stands out against it. I suspect that there will
be more early morning visits to this church in the course of the project.From the start, this project was not meant to be a simple photographic catalog of churches. I'm trying to capture and convey the spirituality that I sense when I visit these buildings. In trying to think of ways to capture such a subjective theme, I thought light would be a critical component. To me, St. Paul's in the morning drives the point home.
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