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Published: 2009-02-25 12:20:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 1198; Favourites: 45; Downloads: 2
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Taken on Christmas Day in Plains, Georgia, when my husband and I went out and about to test my new wide angle lens.This is Plains Baptist Church, a modified Victorian structure that sits about a block off of the main street.
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I found this image so intriguing.......still dont know really why!!
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Thanks! I really appreciate it, Alastair!
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Very nice! I love the perspective. With the dark clouds and bare trees it makes it look almost menacing and gothic.
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Thanks so much! I love this building.
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An excellent photo, a beautiful church and a nice composition framed by trees.
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I like your new tehnique and photo, Alicia...
The building is fine as well.
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NoPs, Alicia!
Congrats on 1-st Spring day!
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i just absolutely love the looming sense of this, the house looks almost alive
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Thanks! One might say that it is, with all of the activity it gets on a regular basis.
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..great shot - where slanting lines add rather than detract from the photo.
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I truly have no words to convey just how powerful an image this is.
The crispness and clarity of the shot itself was wonderul, but the treatment post is truly a work worthy of high praise, just an amazing job.
Bravo!
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Thanks so much, Michael! I really, really appreciate the very encouraging comment!
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It looks fantastic on the small view,but it simply won`t open correctly for me on full view,it`s all pixellated with rough edges
Could you add the Download option Alicia so I can check if that opens fine for me?
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Hi, Jonathan: I've enabled the download of this. Hope it helps!
A
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Thank you Alicia,that downed fine for me and it looks great,fantastic use of the wise boy
Really strange why it looked like it did just by clicking it for full view though,never seen that before
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dA does some pretty strange stuff sometimes. I've heard of people having a terrible time just getting a pic to upload. Various problems seem to crop up in various places. Glad you like the pic! 
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Yeah,on my sub before last I couldn`t upload it for 5 days until I figured out it was a Firefox Cookie problem,just deleting it solved the prob
Welcome of course
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Ooh. I'll remember to suggest that next time somebody tells me they're having a problem with uploading. It could very well be the same thing.
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this is neat, Alimuse
from wideangle, a gothic tilt
though daylight, foreboding
only appears symmetric
a dimension we can't see
quantum fold reality
spooky geometrics,
pip
you do not
"just take pictures"
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Thanks so much for the great and well-thought-out comment! Much appreciated! Thanks for the encouragement!
Alicia
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Alicia, (one of my favorite names)
my daughter does some amateur photography,
tending to some of your themes. i must
send her your link. with her new camera,
maybe she will become active on dA once more.
i'm in CT. she's in Santa Fe, so far away...
pip (Lawrence)
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Sad to be so far away. I have a daughter who is getting ready to graduate from college (art) and I'm sure we'll be facing these issues soon. Currently, she lives at home.
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scary time to be finishing
an education, but hopefully,
with the "stimulous" things
will soon get better.
pip
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Interesting shot with the wide-angle lens, Alicia! 
Do you know why they built this church asymmetrically?
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Oh, and also, I think the higher tower offset by the shorter one is seen fairly often. Perhaps the asymmetry was a part of the style of the time? It's not uncommon to see. As a matter of fact, I didn't really notice it until you mentioned it. Isn't that funny?
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Oh, really? 
Maybe do the two different towers of your churches represent any kind of symbol?
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Perhaps it is representative, but I've never read anything that indicates that it is so. Hmmm... an interesting point and may merit some research!
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In my experience, these churches start out with one building and then gradually grow with added wings to accommodate growth. The wing you see out to the right is a covered space where someone can drive up and drop off an older, infirm person so that he or she won't have to get wet from rain or have the danger of slipping and falling. The building to the right of that covered space (of which you can see only an edge) is actually the "parsonage," the house where the preacher and his family live.
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Thank you very much for this information, Alicia!
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