my adorable M, who i miss much. it's beautiful. I fell in love with old churches in Europe and have always been mystified by the bizarre expression of religion in buildings in the south (the names of churches, the signs for them and etc).
i hope all is well and you don't disappear into the fog.
it's good to hear from you too, katy-- and I also felt my first strongest pangs of meaning from churches in europe. it's insane to be in something that's been solemnly standing for longer than our country has been in existence.
congrats on graduating and the new job and all that real world madness.
aw, thank you. yeah, it's almost hard to believe that people worship and feel inspired in buildings that have just been built and haven't been worn in at all! I tried to take one or two pictures of huge brand new types of churches down south, and there was hardly ever a way to make the pictures say anything interesting.
I think it's the same way with second-hand/recycled/already worn-in clothing-- there's already something to it, much moreso than things you can buy new.
I usually write my journal-esque things over here, even though I still check LJ pretty religiously. I hear rough things about LJ's RSS aggregator and am not sure that I'd be good at replying to comments most days, so I haven't hooked that jank up yet.
i noticed some hancock county/sparta/etc. pictures. i have some cousins who live in white planes. were you just passing through, or do you have other reasons for having gone to that area?
I passed through a few times. If you plotted all the small towns on a map, you'd see the hints of the path that 78 takes between Atlanta and Athens, and (for Hancock/Sparta) that 15 takes from Athens down to Savannah.
Hancock County has an amazing church (the Mt. Zion plaque with the historical description, but also the very first picture with the window panes of old handmade glass reflecting a cemetery) that's not far at all from White Plains, I think just a few miles south. It was the first place that I was shooting and simultaneously realizing I wanted to put all these things together and say something.
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i hope all is well and you don't disappear into the fog.
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congrats on graduating and the new job and all that real world madness.
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I think it's the same way with second-hand/recycled/already worn-in clothing-- there's already something to it, much moreso than things you can buy new.
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What other website?
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Hancock County has an amazing church (the Mt. Zion plaque with the historical description, but also the very first picture with the window panes of old handmade glass reflecting a cemetery) that's not far at all from White Plains, I think just a few miles south. It was the first place that I was shooting and simultaneously realizing I wanted to put all these things together and say something.
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Hee.
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