Danish church Photo

Photographer’s Note

I took this shot yesterday, this is the church in the village I grew up. I have only been inside it once, but the reason it caught my eye again yesterday was the numbers on it "1768" - I thought "uuh, perfect for the scav hunt something or someone greater than 200 years". The thing is I cannot tell you much about the church and when it was build, since when I try entering the homepage I'm denied acces, guess I'm not a valid member of the church club ;o)
Instead I can tell you that the local church singer, Tage has retired after 30 years and one month of faithful singing and that the priest divorced his wife seven years ago, got a much younger girl pregnant and married her - nothing like small town gossip ;o)

Check out Torbens critique for some more facts about when this church was really built.

RGatward, Jeppe, torben, Kenny10pin, davecall, elihesamian, hojper has marked this note useful

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RGatward (19737) 2004-07-15 8:38

Well spotted, a good entry, interesting crop, and good PoV, with the flowers in the foreground.

Jeppe (18623) 2004-07-15 8:46

Hi Line - Surely a different angle for a church shot - but it works very well - even I would have liked the weather vane in full sight :-) Isen't it a 1787 above the door - never mind a fine contribution to the hunt. Nice to hear stories from your old hometown as well - there seams to be something going on there ;-))

torben (3084) 2004-07-15 9:20

Flowers in the front like this is one of the absolutely worst clichées in my opinion, but because of the imaginative treatment of the rest of the photo, cropping, contrast, color-cast, they actually appears very interesting, I suppose it's something with deconstructing the normal significance of this cliché (ahem). The technical quality is bad but in this case it gives a special mood to the photo.

That internet stuff, it never works does it? I just went to my bookshelf and took "Hvem Byggede Hvad" (Who Built What), easy. About Malling church it say that the church was proably built before 1150 but of course altered through the years. 1787 is the year where the porch and the belfry was added. So it's a bit older than the 200 years.

Kenny10pin (19301) 2004-07-15 9:33

strange angle and cropping, but the flowers at the bottom do it for me, very well seen and good, but I would have taken more of the spire, nice shot upwards though

davecall (575) 2004-07-15 11:28

A unique angle Line. The colours are also an unusual combination and it has the effect of making this photo rather striking. Good effort in trying something different; it's too easy to just do the normal angle.

Michael_Gan (2768) 2004-07-15 11:58

Very creative and striking way of cropping! The combination of bright red, white and the black frame is nice (actually the colours of our kitchen...). Well seen!

milloup (1829) 2004-07-15 16:05

I can't enter that page either, but then I signed gave up my membership of the church years and years ago.. ;-))
Here you'll find something about the early days of Malling church, but only if you can read Danish. Quite interesting, as the church used to be fortified - to protect the population in times of strife. 1787, the year above the door, probably refers to some changes or redecorations carried out to the church that year - possibly by the Güldencrone family of Wilhelmsborg.
btw why did you crop the church, couldn't you get it all to fit into the frame ;-))

Proxilva (2157) 2004-07-16 8:35

hahaha those priests are all the same...
when i was i Denmark a couple of years ago i was quite surprised that almost all churches are white...(sofar my useless contibution to danisch churches)

i like it how you visualized your opinion about this church in the photo... it gives me a very cold and distant impression of it (even before the note)... very good!!!
ofcourse the sky helps to that :|

the pink roses in the foreground also give it a very 'conservative christian look'

amen....

elihesamian (26091) 2004-07-17 4:01

EXCELLENT cropping you did,well done!lovely colors combination you had there,and very well captured & in a great way you composed the all elements .very nice work,lovely shot,You did great,Line!

oochappan (22026) 2004-07-19 6:07

Good composition, crop and pp colors, makes it really impressive.

zapady (282) 2004-08-07 5:17