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Challenge: Holy Places (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM
Location: Kongsberg, Norway
Date: May 9, 2006
Galleries: Animals, Architecture
Date Uploaded: May 9, 2006

 A monument in my hometown of Kongsberg of a church made of glass mirrors. Taken with a circular polarizer on an EF 16-35 f/2.8L.

post editing:
crop
selective color
reduce noice
unsharp mask
image size
levels
color balance

Thanks everyone for votes and comments - I really appreciate it!

This 'church' is actually very small and not at all meant for people to go inside although there is enough room in there for some lights to make it shine at night.
The church can't be more than maybe 15 ft tall from ground up to top of steeple.
This angle was the best I could do to make it look big. Basic editing doen't allow for perspective alterations but in this particular angle it didn't seem to matter too much as I thought it added to the overall picture.

Here's the one I submitted first before I changed my mind:

Statistics
Place: 3 out of 250
Avg (all users): 6.7529
Avg (commenters): 7.1852
Avg (participants): 6.6136
Avg (non-participants): 6.8229
Views since voting: 2587
Views during voting: 389
Votes: 263
Comments: 33
Favorites: 6 (view)

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 05/17/2006 04:19:00 PM
Wow - thanks everyone! I appreciate the comments and votes. :)
 05/17/2006 07:40:33 AM
My absolutely favorite in this challenge.....Congratulations, and so richly deserved, and so, so close, to a ribbon.
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 05/17/2006 07:26:11 AM
Top 5! Congratulations!!! Well done!
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 05/17/2006 05:22:30 AM
Congratulations on your top five finish!
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 05/17/2006 12:39:31 AM
Beautifully done Are! Congrats.
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 05/17/2006 12:31:41 AM
I'm an architect and I have never seen nor heard about this interesting building. Mind telling me more? Great job Are! Congrats on top 5!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/16/2006 06:17:39 PM
What an interesting structure!
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 05/16/2006 10:40:40 AM
NEAT-O
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 05/15/2006 11:02:57 PM
Fountainhead kind of Holy! Beautiful composition.
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 05/15/2006 03:56:20 AM
What an amazing building! Good title!
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 05/14/2006 06:33:31 PM
been there!
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 05/13/2006 06:24:53 PM
Clever title! Nice.
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 05/13/2006 04:51:50 PM
Love the perspective as it fits the building really well.
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 05/13/2006 03:03:36 PM
Nice place!
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 05/12/2006 07:52:54 PM
What an interesting building. I'm struggling to find anything constructive to say here. Maybe the tree reflections but I'm really stretching here. One of my favorites.
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 05/12/2006 10:45:53 AM
Very unusual looking building. Super colours.
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 05/12/2006 03:13:17 AM
Neat architecture.
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 05/11/2006 09:54:06 PM
This is beautiful, unique and unusual! Love the reflections and the blue roof and sky.
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 05/11/2006 09:34:21 PM
Something a little different and you appear to have caught an angle that reflects (pardon the pun) the subjects best side - 8
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 05/11/2006 08:26:23 PM
Amazing building and I love how you captured the reflections. Nicely done.
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 05/11/2006 06:49:45 PM
I feel like the sky might be a bit overprocessed compared to the reflection in the church ...
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 05/11/2006 04:12:22 PM
cool church. it seems like you could've gotten a better shot from a different angle, though.
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 05/11/2006 01:41:30 PM
Very vibrant. I like how you've only got two colors primarily in our photo.
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 05/11/2006 10:23:57 AM
Remarkable building and good title.
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 05/11/2006 02:35:27 AM
haha, nice play on words.
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 05/11/2006 12:19:31 AM
very punny, I mean funny. good sky and colour in this one.
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 05/10/2006 10:43:11 PM
Very interesting and creative...
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 05/10/2006 08:00:41 PM
nice play on words Ü
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 05/10/2006 03:28:55 PM
An interesting building
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 05/10/2006 03:10:11 PM
Wow! That's neat!!
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 05/10/2006 02:03:46 PM
wow, what a find. thats amazingly beautiful. guess the members of that church know where there tithe is going. thats one nice church(outside at least)
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 05/10/2006 10:54:20 AM
The overall reflection is really good. But some kind of different angle, or a crop, in which we could not see the trees would've been perfect. I know it's impossible sometimes.
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 05/10/2006 07:53:23 AM
This is amazing, as I love the modern look of the church against the sky.....
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