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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Fourteen: Expressing the meaning of buildings and structures > Saint Sofia Cathedral, Kiev, Ukraine, 2009
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17-OCT-2009

Saint Sofia Cathedral, Kiev, Ukraine, 2009

The setting sun bathes the ornate façade surrounding the crowded courtyard that stands before Kiev’s oldest church. I fill the frame with the façade, suggesting that the façade continues well beyond the limits of my photograph. It dwarfs the shadowy figures that surge through its entrance, a monument to both a religion and Ukrainian history.

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Phil Douglis25-Nov-2009 19:27
I liked the shadowing as well, Tim -- it also abstracts the crowds and stresses the beauty and history of the place instead.
Tim May25-Nov-2009 18:52
The shadows on the facade make this image seem almost as a drawing.
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