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Falmouth town green with "First Congregational Church of Falmouth, Massachusetts of the United Church of Christ was originally gathered on October 28, 1708. Previous to that, the congregation worshiping in Falmouth had been considered a “branch church” of the Puritan church in nearby Barnstable, which was originally gathered in 1616 in Southwark, England.
Even before Falmouth was incorporated as a town in 1686, Jonathan Dunham, a layman, served as the minister to our community’s residents. Dunham later moved to Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard, where he was ordained and served the Puritan church there until his death.
Falmouth’s first meeting house was built in 1700 or earlier near the Old Burying ground off today’s Mill Road in Falmouth. A second larger meeting house, near that site, was completed in 1717. Continued growth of the town led to that meeting house being moved and rebuilt by 1756 on that portion of the original Meeting House Lot which was then laid out and called the Village Green. That meeting house was replaced in 1796 with a fourth building in the style of a church, erected on the same site. In its steeple a bell made by Paul Revere was placed. That bell continues to ring out over Falmouth. Its inscription reads: 'The living to the church I call, and to the grave I summon all.'" firstcongfalmouth.org/Church%20History.htm
Follow up photos shot today of the shipwreck at North Beach Island. Note the charred wood. Most wrecks were burned down to the waterline at some point in their history.
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Part 4/5 of a sequence of photos taken on a whale watch cruise over the Stellwagen bank near Cape Cod, MA.
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About the Photograph
A photograph of Little Guilda taken in October, 2008 while at Cooks Camps – commonly referred to as Cooks Cottages, Cooks Cabins or Cooks by the Sea – in South Wellfleet Massachusetts along the National Seashore of Cape Cod.
Cooks consists of some 14 dune beach cottages spaced out over many acres of ocean beachfront setting atop the 125-foot high dunes that Cape Cod and Wellfleet are so famous for.
Shot Information
- Composed with a Nikon D300, handheld without the assistance of the Tripod
- Single exposure with a Nikon 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-S VR DX Zoom-Nikkor Lens
Adobe Lightroom 1.4.1
- White balance adjustment
- Slight exposure tweaks, avoiding highlight clipping using recovery
- A bit of Clarity
- No noise reduction
- No sharpening
- Slight lens vignetting for darkened edges
- Exported for final processing in Adobe Photoshop CS3
Adobe Photoshop CS3 10.0
- All processing prepared in LAB color mode
- S-curve added to Lightness channel for contrast
- S-curve added to the A/B channel for color correction
- Slight high-pass filter, applied as Overlay (decreased opacity)
- Sharpening applied to the Lightness channel only (1.0 pixels, 69%, removing Lens Blur)
- Final adjustments to Lens Vignetting with Lens Correction filter
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