St Luke and Martina Church Canvas Print

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What caught my eye this wonderful day in Rome was how the light picked out one woman while the other people were in the shadows. Almost as if the church was choosing to enfold her in its glory somehow. Known in Rome as Santi Luca e Maritna. The church was initially dedicated to Saint Martina, martyred in 228 AD during the reign of Emperor Alexander Severus. In 625 Pope Honorius I commissioned construction of the church. Restored first in 1256 during the reign of Pope Alexander IV, it was a simple rectangular structure surrounded on three sides by other constructions until it was rebuilt by the painter and architect, Pietro da Cortona, in the seventeenth century.
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The power of light - often juxtaposed with the lack of it in the shadows, is what permits any photographer to share his or her unique perspective of the world. Stories and moments captured through a lens. I share what impacts me, delights me, disturbs me. I specialize in land / waterscape, macro, black and white, architectural, and minimalist photography. It's difficult to explain why I find capturing the world around me so addictive - a rushing mountain waterfall surrounded by the brilliant colors of fall, the incredible microscopic beauty of a flower center, the graphic simplicity of an architectural element, the distorted reflection of one skyscraper in the windows of another, a violent purple sky traced by lightning are all part...