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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Ninety-two: Cruising the Inland Passage from Charleston to Jacksonville > Faith Chapel, Jekyll Island Historic District, Georgia, 2014
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28-NOV-2014

Faith Chapel, Jekyll Island Historic District, Georgia, 2014

The Jekyll Island Club built this interdenominational chapel in 1904. It holds a magnificent signed stained glass window by Louis Comfort Tiffany, installed in 1921. I was not permitted to make photographs inside of the chapel, so was restricted to exterior imagery. I decided to place the sun behind the simple chapel steeple, and abstract it as a silhouette. As I was framing the steeple, I noticed a small cloud drifting across the frame. The adjacent sun brilliantly illuminates that cloud. I waited for it to almost touch the steeple, and made this image. I combine the black steeple with the small white cloud and the deeply underexposed blue sky to express a mystical presence, an appropriate tribute to a place known as the “Faith Chapel.”

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Phil Douglis09-May-2015 20:31
After shooting with you for the past decade, your passion for the symbolism inherent in lonely and luminous clouds has influenced my own approach to a considerable degree. Thanks, Tim, for sharing your response to this image with us.
Tim May08-May-2015 22:10
Of course I resonate with this one - wow! The light and the cloud - favorite themes of mine. I love this.
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