kneel in wonder at heaven touching earth

Friday Foto

I used to do quite a lot of Black and White photography when I had an old 35mm SLR Camera, most of the film loaded was B&W. When I was in the newsagents recently they had a Black & White one of a series of Photography Focus Guides. It looked quite interesting so I bought it. On the cover it a CD with various videos and filters on it. Then, earlier this week, Steve put a couple of amazing B&W photographs up on Pencil Dreams, and my interest was really piqued.

Fireworks was fired up yesterday morning, and I started looking at some of the effects available with the filters from the cover-disk. One of them produced the photograph of Godmanchester Church below. I really like this negative effect. It brings back so many memories of when I was a child exploring my parents suitcase full of old photographs. I always enjoyed holding the strips of negatives up to the light, to see things in a very different way. And, yet, it’s an artform that I’ve never explored until now. There’s something about it, that keeps drawing my eye to it, again and again.

Friday Foto

We are very fortunate in Godmanchester as our Parish Church possesses a fine organ of significant historical importance — the 2-manual organ was built by Messrs Bryceson of London in 1859. Over the years it has regrettably suffered some neglect, probably due partly to lack of funds and partly to lack of sound professional advice. However, the opportunity was taken in 1994 to undertake a comprehensive restoration. This hasn’t only remedied the ravages of time and corrected past mistakes, but has also provided some improvements made possible by modern technology; technology which wasn’t available to the original Victorian builders. The result of all of this work is a tremendous musical instrument that the Church can be justly proud of.