Karlskirche Candles

January 7th, 2008 - 9:16pm

Candles at the entrance of Karlskirche (St Charles Borromeo church) in Vienna.

I took four of this shot — two in portrait and two in landscape. Both were taken with the candles in focus and the background instead in focus. This was the last of the four, and I knew as soon as I pressed the shutter that I didn’t need to take any more as I found the shot and composition I’d been hunting for the whole time.

The candles are right at the entrance to the church, below the pipe organ and the background is right down at the far end of the church. It doesn’t look that far but it’s a reasonably large church.

The roof of the church is domed and has a large mural painted all over. We were lucky enough to ascend the slightly wobbly scaffolding right at the top where you could almost touch the roof (complete with soaring dove).

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