The Baha'i Temple at Blue Hour - a photo on Flickriver

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"Sometimes you just get lucky":
I’ve mentioned before how the light was relatively poor while I was photographing the Baha’i House of Worship in Wilmette. There was no sunrise and I missed the five seconds of great light by being on the wrong side of the building. Despite these setbacks, I came away with a few great images, predominately because the temple is simply stunning. I was taking a few photographs from whatever vantage points weren’t blocked off by a winter’s worth of deep freeze, trying for something specific. Sometimes when you’re trying really hard to do one thing (get a shot of the white stone temple silhouetted against a pitch black sky) you luck out and get something that is quite the opposite, but better than you could have hoped for. A low cloud ceiling, sodium vapor lights, tungsten white-balance, and a rather nasty bit of lens flare coming off the ridiculous front element of the 14mm all intersected to create some very beautiful colors and shapes in the sky behind the temple. This would be an all-time favorite of mine were the foreground to be more interesting. Perhaps I should drop it to black with a little photoshop magic …. :)

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Taken in: United States / Illinois / Wilmette (show map)

Taken on: January 31, 2009

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Camera: NIKON D700, f/5.6, 14mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	NIKON D700
Aperture:	f/5.6
Focal Length:	14mm
ISO:	200
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS4 Macintosh
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