Monday, September 10, 2012

St. Andrews Interior

This is a super-wide-angle shot of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Cape Town. You may click on the photo to enlarge to 500k. The minister, Rev. Natalie van Rooyen, is standing beneath the window on the far right. Her US assistant, Steven Leach, is wearing a green(ish) suit. OBSERVATION: One inevitably uses some projection to squeeze all this into one rectangular photo. This is a Miller Cylindrical projection.

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Dane Sherrard

I took this photo on Friday of Scotsman Rev. Dr. Dane Sherrard, who presided over extraordinary turnarounds of a number of Churches. The core of his message was twofold: 1. “When the Church tries to do good things, there is so much good will out there … so many people who are glad to help,” and 2. “When we take risks, God takes us and uses us way beyond our imaginings.”  OBSERVATION: The photo might look like a close-up, but it's a 142mm zoom shot.
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NOTE: With hindsight, there was a third “core” of his message, which one read between the lines:  he brushed off (circumvented, someone said) serious negativism, opposition, and stonewalling. As an example, he wouldn't have it that his Church would be demolished.