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Búðakirkja Church, Snaefellsnes Peninsula, Iceland - Study II
The church at Búðir was built in 1703 but was later demolished. In 1816 the parish at Búðir was abolished but Steinunn Sveinsdóttir, one of the ladies of the parish, fought strongly for a new church but the national church rejected her request. Eventually Steinunn received royal permission to build a new, which stood ready in 1848. Between 1984 and 1986 the church was reconstructed and reconsecrated in 1987.
I've always found creativity fulfilling and have enjoyed photography for many, many years, shooting first with film SLRs and then progressing on to digital SLRs once the technology started to improve. Having been working in IT throughout my career, and therefore being confident with PC-based tools, it allowed me to realise the potential that digital photography offered. That's when things started to get more serious.
Producing fine art allows me the creative freedom to use techniques that result in an image that reveal an alternative reality, uncovering hidden aspects of the subject. For example, long exposure photography is a technique that allows the capturing of the magic and beauty of a scene that the human eye would never otherwise see, yet it is still reality.
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Taken in September 2014 just before a small herd of sheep wandered into view and the heavens opened.The church at Búðir was built in 1703 but was later demolished. In 1816 the parish at Búðir was abolished but Steinunn Sveinsdóttir, one of the ladies of the parish, fought strongly for a new church but the national church rejected her request. Eventually Steinunn received royal permission to build a new, which stood ready in 1848. Between 1984 and 1986 the church was reconstructed and reconsecrated in 1987.
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I'm based in South-East England and tend to concentrate mostly on producing fine art landscape and nature, often in black and white.I've always found creativity fulfilling and have enjoyed photography for many, many years, shooting first with film SLRs and then progressing on to digital SLRs once the technology started to improve. Having been working in IT throughout my career, and therefore being confident with PC-based tools, it allowed me to realise the potential that digital photography offered. That's when things started to get more serious.
Producing fine art allows me the creative freedom to use techniques that result in an image that reveal an alternative reality, uncovering hidden aspects of the subject. For example, long exposure photography is a technique that allows the capturing of the magic and beauty of a scene that the human eye would never otherwise see, yet it is still reality.
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