Testament
Local pickled blue granite was used to build the Currawong Anglican Church, which I captured here under a dark and starry sky late in February of this year. The building is one of the finest-looking examples of rural chapels that I’ve seen and stands as a testament to the dedication of the region’s residents over the last 100 years. The church was built on land donated by one local property owner, and other family members funded the construction. When the land and building faced disposal in the late 1980s after years of disuse and destruction by vandals and thieves, the local community once again rallied, saving and restoring the buildings and grounds.
The Currawong Church was one of the shooting locations that I visited with Geoff Sharpe on the crazy weekend when I drove 1377 km to (try to) satisfy my obsession with photographing Australia’s night skies.
I took eight overlapping single-frame photos to create a vertical panorama that includes the church grounds, the beautiful building and the superb sky. For each of those individual images, I shot with my Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera, a Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 lens @ f/3.2, using an exposure time of 15 seconds @ ISO 6400.
Testament
Local pickled blue granite was used to build the Currawong Anglican Church, which I captured here under a dark and starry sky late in February of this year. The building is one of the finest-looking examples of rural chapels that I’ve seen and stands as a testament to the dedication of the region’s residents over the last 100 years. The church was built on land donated by one local property owner, and other family members funded the construction. When the land and building faced disposal in the late 1980s after years of disuse and destruction by vandals and thieves, the local community once again rallied, saving and restoring the buildings and grounds.
The Currawong Church was one of the shooting locations that I visited with Geoff Sharpe on the crazy weekend when I drove 1377 km to (try to) satisfy my obsession with photographing Australia’s night skies.
I took eight overlapping single-frame photos to create a vertical panorama that includes the church grounds, the beautiful building and the superb sky. For each of those individual images, I shot with my Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera, a Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 lens @ f/3.2, using an exposure time of 15 seconds @ ISO 6400.