Stainburn Church (St Marys)

[martin henson]

Another visit to this lovely place, I used my 4x5 to capture the exterior and details, all the pictures of the church (apart from the first and Ivy) I used the front standard swing and tilt to put emphasis on the main foreground subjects.



4x5
90 and 150 lens
Ilford FP4
Developed in Pyrocat HD

 

[David M]

Very delicate.
Number five, with the tapering and tilted monument must have given you some trouble on the ground glass.

 

[martin henson]

Thank you David, can’t remember number five as hard, number two was hard as the camera was just above ground level, I paid for that the next day with a stiff back

Regards
Martin

 

[roncromberge]

Nice and vintage look and feel.

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[mono]

Nice series!

 

[David M]

I was looking at this again. Worth a look. It came into my head that you have two embryo series here. One on church architecture and details and another that might be called something like Sacred to the Memory. The inscriptions on gravestones vary from very beautiful to charmingly naive. At Whitby, they have eroded in remarkable ways. I'm not trying to make work for you, just offering feedback.

 

[martin henson]

That was the intention to add the connection of the stones to the church, it would make a good project of just the inscriptions, as you say there are some beautiful ones,

A church I visited last week to photograph, alas the weather stopped me, One headstone had the inscription of “died 30th February 1891,” February must have been a longer month then

 

[David M]

If only someone would invent Photoshop for marble...
I think the months have been the same since Julius Caesar. If this was in Yorkshire, it would obviously be a fine example of sturdy, independent thinking.