St Lawrence Church by fbailey

St Lawrence Church

This church is in the little village of Church Hougham which is a short distance from Dover.

It stands on a site possibly occupied since Roman times and dates from late 11th or early 12th Century. The architecture is predominantly Norman or early English.

Whilst I was taking pictures, a lovely chap came by who was about to lock the Church for the night and he gave me a potted history of its chequered past. A snippet of information he gave me was that in the 18th Century the churchyard was used by smugglers to store their contraband, and to deter villagers, they used to masquerade as ghosts. One night one of the locals fired his gun at a ghost and killed him. He was subsequently tried for murder in the Magistrates' Court but the judge acquitted him on the grounds that the murdered man was the ringleader of the smugglers, and therefore the man who had killed him had done a public a service. How times have changed!

This is my 2nd attempt at producing a sepia picture of an historical building in my locality. It was taken with the IR camera and tweaked in PS. The main difficulty with producing this picture was waiting for some bright sunlight, the weather here has been dull and overcast for most of this week.;
@kali66 Finally had a little sun this afternoon, so the IR camera came out!
March 11th, 2023  
oh nice effect. the oldest buildings in New Zealand are 150 years old, so a treat to have such a history to a site
March 11th, 2023  
👌❤️
March 11th, 2023  
Very nice vintage feel to your image. Lovely comp.
March 11th, 2023  
Nicely framed
March 11th, 2023  
Looks like a Christmas card.
March 11th, 2023  
Looks like a lovely wintery scene.
March 11th, 2023  
Wonderful
March 11th, 2023  
like a Christmas postcard.
March 11th, 2023  
I enjoyed your commentary on the church. Somehow colour IR even when converted to sepia doesn't do it for me, I much prefer your mono IRs.
March 11th, 2023  
@bob65 Thanks for your feedback. Me too but perhaps I've not got the knack of this yet!
March 11th, 2023  
Lovely capture with a vintage feel.
March 11th, 2023  
It looks very eerie in the sepia tone. Great edit. That story is quite bizarre!
March 11th, 2023  
Great composition and edit.
March 11th, 2023  
Great shot
March 11th, 2023  
I truly like this, IR gives great detail in the leaves and the levels of tones has resulted is most fascinating.
March 12th, 2023  
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