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The Beauty of an Ukranian Church

Saints Volodymyr and Olha Church is a beautiful church in Chicago’s Ukranian Village.  Photographing from the choir loft, I was able to create unique compositions such as this one. It captures the dramatic curve of the choir loft railing and still includes the beautiful view of the church windows, arches, and a huge radiant chandelier.

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Advanced Techniques

Daisy Daisy

For this image, I wanted to experiment with the blur effect in Photoshop.  I wanted it to look like there were streaks of energy or light shooting out radially from the prominent daisy.

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Composition

The Calatrava

The Milwaukee Art Museum was designed by Santiago Calatrava. It is a stunning white curvy and lacy building that offers a multitude of perspectives to shoot, inside and out. The images below were shot on a on a sunny cloudless afternoon, only from the outside. When you visit there, have fun coming up with compositions…

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Inspiration

The Beauty of an Ukranian Church

Saints Volodymyr and Olha Church is a beautiful church in Chicago’s Ukranian Village.  Photographing from the choir loft, I was able to create unique compositions such as this one. It captures the dramatic curve of the choir loft railing and still includes the beautiful view of the church windows, arches, and a huge radiant chandelier.

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Musings

Why Do We Like an Image?

The camera club only allowed nature photographs.  A rule of the club defined a nature photograph as a photograph that did not have evidence of hand of man, so I have looked mostly to create nature images, eliminating such hand of man images from my own artistic consideration. Is this a problem?

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