At my job, I “touch-up” and enhance photography on a regular basis. Most of the time it isn’t artistic work but a piece of rusty machinery with labels all over it, or a locomotive in a boring train yard that desperately needs some clouds added to the sky.

I work with the communications director and talented designer Danielle on the website for our home church, Grace Baptist. We are at the most intense, soon-to-be-ending phase of an almost 10 year project of relocation. A milestone in the construction of our building happened last week, and the cross was placed on top. This differentiates the structure from others and puts an incredibly strong presence in the rural landscape.

I went and shot some photos of the cross at sundown on Saturday night. It ended up being a beautiful time. The only problem was that the sun was directly behind the cross – this was a hinderance and a help. Anyway, I shot this photo which had some ugly things I couldn’t remove (the trailers) but some that I did, some telephone poles, ugly wires and caution tape. I was also able to enhance the sky and use some other techniques that I saw another professional photographer use. there is something about the composition of the photo that bugs me a tad, but all in all I think it was a successful representation of where we are at in the process of the church building and how poignant it looks in its natural landscape.

grace church 8-4-07

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