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Challenge: Free Study 2011-01 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
Location: Mavrovo, Macedonia
Date: Jan 19, 2011
Aperture: 8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/13
Date Uploaded: Jan 31, 2011

 Immersion is the state of consciousness where an immersant's awareness of physical self is diminished or lost by being surrounded in an engrossing total environment; often artificial.

Well, the engrossing total environment here certainly is artificial! This is St Nicholas Church from 1850, dipped in the artificial lake Mavrovo, built around 1953 (the dam). The church was submerged as the valley was flooded, but never completely gone. The roof and steeple were always visible. According to the locals, the saint Nikola wouldn't allow it to be gone. In recent years with all the climate changes it's mostly like this... just out of reach. Some years ago it was completely out of water, you could walk inside at your own risk (collapsing roof). I believe the walls were rebuilt at that time. Not sure what the stones were but I thought they made a nice foreground for my shot.

Viveza to the rescue, brought out some details and color, and darkened the sky to compliment the red roof. I think I didn't go over the top with processing.

Statistics
Place: 136 out of 307
Avg (all users): 5.7400
Avg (commenters): 6.6667
Avg (participants): 5.6762
Avg (non-participants): 5.8889
Views since voting: 685
Views during voting: 257
Votes: 150
Comments: 5
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AuthorThread
 02/09/2011 12:07:48 AM
I thought this was nicely done - not overprocessed, lovely composition, and an interesting subject. Thanks for the additional information in the notes, too!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/07/2011 03:39:00 PM
What a cool subject!
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 02/04/2011 03:05:12 PM
WOW that's unusual. Must be quite easy to baptise kids in that church.
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 02/02/2011 01:27:34 PM
i hope you live near here because this is a photographer's (at least this photographer's) dream! great find. can't wait to see where this is
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 02/01/2011 10:46:06 AM
Great shot. Nicely framed. Pleasing range of exposure and colors. Looking forward to finding out where this is. Very nice.
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