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April 2007 Daniel Bollag

Church*2
by Daniel Bollag

Vallemaggia (Ticino), Switzerland

No, relax, this is *not* Nato’s top-secret satellite antenna
hidden in a lost valley of neutral Switzerland, but

a modern church in rural surroundings:
Swiss architect Mario Botta’s «San Giovanni Battista»,
the interior of which you saw in the last stf-Challenge:
http://www.pbase.com/stfchallenge/image/78960348


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Nuno Borges11-Feb-2011 10:54
Perhaps the antenna is supposed to capture divinity signals.
Daniel Bollag09-Jun-2007 14:13
Please don’t tell anyone, Helen, but it’s my own favorite too ;-) Thanks for your kind remark! — db.
Helen Betts09-Jun-2007 10:33
I like all three of these, Daniel, but I think this is my favorite, with a totally incongrous structure set among a rural village setting. Helen
Guest 01-Jun-2007 16:29
This is kind of a neat view of the church. I like the buildings in the foreground and all of that beautiful green in this image. Nicely captured Daniel!
Daniel Bollag01-Jun-2007 15:16
Thanks a lot, Denise, for your friendly words! The possibly somewhat «special» green of the image might be due to my—first-time—experimenting with Canon’s relatively new digital «picture styles» that try to sort of imitate the effects of certain film-types for specific scenes (e.g. «landscape», in this case, which is supposed to emphasize green and blue hues). — db.
Denise01-Jun-2007 14:10
There is no way I would have ever thought there was a church in this image. Maybe a fancy, short silo?? Love the green and the wonderful exposure of the roof on the church!