Andrew wrote:Tam, you have a wonderful eye for composition and perspective. I am quite taken by "Looking south down the Vienne River". Beautiful.
Thank you very much. That one remains one of my very favorites also. I have a mounted version of it over my living room mantle. I shot it with a Nikon Coolpix 850, essentially a pocket camera, in August of 2004. Not too long afterward, like days later, the camera's CCD chip fried itself.
THIS PICTURE is one of the very last ones I ever shot with that camera, as it fried while I was taking pictures inside that church.
I have always had a special connection with that church picture because it depicts a church which was built in 972 AD, and has been in continuous use ever since. When I went inside it, the emotional content of over a thousand years of believers worshipping there struck me an almost physical blow and my eyes teared up.
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
― G. Michael Hopf, "Those Who Remain"
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