Diagonals

A little over a year ago I started selling images through an online stock photography site called Istockphoto. Although there’s little monetary reward, the egotistical input has been very satisfying with a total of over 1100 sales as of today. One concern I had about going down this route was that it would alter the way I take photographs and lead me to only look for images that had some commercial value. Although there is some truth in this, I can still persuade myself to take pictures purely for the pleasure of doing so. Most of the images I make in churches fall into this category as, with minor exceptions such as some of organ pipes that I’ve sold, ecclesiastical imagery is a non-starter.

So today’s offering. It was taken inside a church but is not overtly religious. The composition appealed to me but it is not, I would imagine, of commercial interest; with a figure in it, it might be but I didn’t have one handy. What I like about it are the strong diagonals, the mix of light and shade and the graduation of the sky tones in the window from white at the horizon to a deeper blue in the firmament above. All arty nonsense but without it the amount of pretentious claptrap floating around in the world would be so much the less.