Mission San Gabriel

Tee Why

Mission San Gabriel was built in 1771, fourth of a set of Missions that lined up California for the travelers to seek shelter and such. It's actually from here that people traveled to south to found a little city called Los Angeles.
San Gabriel is now a dense suburb of mostly Chinese and Hispanic ethnicities. And amongst this new population exists a monument to times when California was more of a Spanish Colony.

1. Mission Bells.


2. Inside the church


3. Flower in the garden


4. Prayer


whole gallery is here http://tomyi.smugmug.com/gallery/3299941#183327217

c/c welcome.

Morbid Andrew

Awsome eye, love the angles

Frog Lady

Nice shots Tom - very interesting angles that really (IMO) add to the composition.

On a side note, it's nice to see the mission looking so good. I lived literally around the corner from it in the late 1980's. The mission had been seriously damaged in the Whittier Narrows quakes in the fall of 1987 (?) and was still roped off when we moved a year later. I hadn't been back since, so I was pleased to see that it looks like it's been repaired/renovated

thanks for sharing,

C.

Tee Why

Frog Lady wrote:

Nice shots Tom - very interesting angles that really (IMO) add to the composition.

On a side note, it's nice to see the mission looking so good. I lived literally around the corner from it in the late 1980's. The mission had been seriously damaged in the Whittier Narrows quakes in the fall of 1987 (?) and was still roped off when we moved a year later. I hadn't been back since, so I was pleased to see that it looks like it's been repaired/renovated

thanks for sharing,

C.

Hmmm, I didn't know it was damaged in the earth quake. Yea, no visible damamge or things like that when we were there.

Marc Muench

Your first image is great

This looks similar to what others have been doing with the tilt/shift lenses by tweeking the tilt at a shallow depth of field. However, it does not really matter how you did it, it just worked

Tee Why

Marc Muench wrote:

Your first image is great

This looks similar to what others have been doing with the tilt/shift lenses by tweeking the tilt at a shallow depth of field. However, it does not really matter how you did it, it just worked

The first shot was with a Lensbaby 2.0. It's basically a poorman's tiltshift.
I added a wideangle adapter as my camera has a 1.6x crop factor and b/c the lens baby is a 50mm lens without the adapter.