Homage to the Potosi Methodist church....which burned down this past weekend :(

It was brought to my attention by my clients that the church they were married in barely 3 years ago just burned down this weekend.  

There were a lot of things I loved about this space!  It was cute, over 100 years old and was full of history.  When you spend time in smaller towns - there is something to appreciate about a simpler life.  Less clutter, less noise and more community.  

I wanted to share some of my favorite images from the space as an homage. 

All images taken by Pink Light Images
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And here is the article about the church: Memories shared after Potosi Church Fire

Enjoy....

I took this through the doorway stained glass window.  It was a super super tiny pane.

The windows where I made the image!

Some sweet memories from a historic building.

Sending my love out to you Potosi for your loss.

My best memory was being able to have an opportunity to capture a wedding there and on that trip was able to also see my grandparents.  It was amazing! Thank you for the hospitality.

Much Love,
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"beauty's moment"

I was in a restful state today.  Even though it seems that I don't ever "simmer down" to be still.  I had some good quality quiet time combined with a couple of movies...and THEN a quick trip down to a venue to scout for a wedding coming in March.

Sometimes, I create when I see the waves and motions of other creators.  I ask myself WHY NOT CREATE right now in this moment?  It only takes a few minutes sometimes.  I've been pretty occupied with wedding bliss and all of my clientele that I had not made anything for a few days!

So I stopped to re-visit my moments inside the abandoned theater.  I stopped to be thankful we even got to go inside.  I'm thankful we had flashlights.  I'm thankful I had a model that was willing and eager to be creative and create along with me!  I'm thankful we had eyes to see things maybe we would not have normally seen when walking into darkness. :)

I give you "beauty's moment"

beauty's moment - Model: Mikaela Carson

After staring at all my original images - I began to think about these windows.  I took a small piece of one of the panes to make a haze around her.  I then played with duplication and reversing all the directions I could think of to give me that visual 'ease' about her moment here.  I wanted something semi-distorted.  I wanted something a tad on the creepy side.

As I stare at this now, I feel that she is longing for someone to rescue her.  I had seen this room and it felt locked away from the other parts of the building.  Very much like a princess tower where someone could have been locked in and forgotten.  However, this room had the most light coming in.  There were several stained glass windows with only one missing that was boarded up.

Behind the scenes - part of the tower room - Mikaela Carson modeling/testing

I feel too, this space is longing to be rescued.  We were able to speak to a local architect who was doing some measurements of the space.  I do hope they take this space and make it thrive alive again.  The structure and crisp details are still on the outside, but makes me wonder just what it might have looked like years ago before all the drywall and divisions.

Here's to new life and resurrection.
To creation and LOVE!!!!!

Much love to you,

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