Ocean Star

ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
edited December 9, 2005 in Landscapes
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This steeple of my church can be seen for miles out to sea. It has been there since the mid 1800s to guide ships into the harbor of Charleston, SC.

ginger
After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.

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  • ShakeyShakey Registered Users Posts: 1,004 Major grins
    edited December 8, 2005
    Cool Ginger, also a possible entry to FM monthy challenge:D .

    Cheers
    Tim

    PS I should have checked you probably entered it already mwink.gif .
  • ThusieThusie Registered Users Posts: 1,818 Major grins
    edited December 8, 2005
    Really super Ginger!!!
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited December 8, 2005
    Hi, Tim, you are a mindreader. Except I didn't enter it yet. I thought of FM when I took the photo, though, I had it in mind.

    Now I love the photo for its own sake. I have loved that island church since 1984.

    Being as last night was the service with music for The
    Feast of the Immaculate Conception (yup, they call it all that), I took my camera. That statue was such an obvious thing. But it was like shooting the moon. Settings? Well, I put it on manual and just kept messing around.

    I love it, I have been out in the harbor is a sailboat years ago. You can see that for miles. We sing a "Mary" song often, but on Mary days, we sing about the sea, the ocean star and, "pray for the wanderer, pray for me"...... I just love it. It is home.

    ginger

    I will enter it today. Thanks for the suggestion, smile.
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited December 8, 2005
    Thanks, Thusie,

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited December 8, 2005
    Nice, Ginger, very. Now whatever you do, DON'T under any circumstances enter in the FM MA where my Nutcracker shot will have to compete with it.

    Ah, go ahead. It's a great entry, much more on target than mine.

    And, there will be the added benefit that you'll have to remove that frame!
    If not now, when?
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited December 8, 2005
    Yeah, I have the frameless entry ready to go! All 640 pixels. On this shot I am partial to having a frame. So it should be with great joy that others will see the shot w/o its clothes so to speak.

    It is not an exactly politically correct photo, but it has been there for the taking in my life since 1984. And as I said, it is important to me.

    Now the firestation, a new one since the big hurricane of '89, it is soooo politically correct. No they did not decide NOT to celebrate, they are celebrating any and all occasions in the month of December anywhere in the world, it looks like. With light bulbs, scenes, blow ups, whatever, in great color over a definite wide angle space!

    Somehow I need someplace for my eye to settle, then I can appreciate them all.

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited December 8, 2005
    Oh, on this shot, I did photoshop to a degree. I even used LAB, all the way, lightness, A and B, in curves none the less.

    And a few other things.

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • StevenVStevenV Registered Users Posts: 1,174 Major grins
    edited December 8, 2005
    sorry to intrude, but what is this "FM Challenge" of which you speak?
    -Steven
    my words, my "pro"pictures, my "fun" pictures, my videos.

  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited December 8, 2005
    StevenV wrote:
    sorry to intrude, but what is this "FM Challenge" of which you speak?
    Uh, hi, Steven. It is another forum, another internet photo site.

    www.fredmiranda.com


    ginger (you can join for free and enter challenges or post photos.)

    I think the personalities of different groups are different. I dabble a bit in FM, but dGrin is my main group.
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • VikingViking Registered Users Posts: 178 Major grins
    edited December 9, 2005
    Nice shot
    Terrible FRAME(s)
    I would have move down the roof a bit, I think- It feels abit unbalanced to me. 1drink.gif
  • MikkoMikko Registered Users Posts: 451 Major grins
    edited December 9, 2005
    This one is cool I really like the shadow. Do you have any others of this church? It looks like it may have some interesting architecture to it.
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