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<blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 830040" data-attributes="member: 53455">The Monk on the Fire Ladder (1960s and 2021)My mentor in the field of church photography was a French Benedictine monk, Dom Angelico Surchamp, the publisher of all the Zodiaque books. He was an amazing, unique person. From him I learned a little bit about photography, and tons about life in general. Using Sinar field cameras and Hasselblads, he himself took most of the luscious black-and-white photos that illustrated the Zodiaque books between, roughly, 1950 and 2000, and the most iconic photo of him is probably the one below, where he is, in his billowing black robes, perched atop the very tall firemen’s ladder on a reconnaissance mission of the high tympanum of the cathedral in the city of Angoulême (western France).And so of course, when I happened to be shooting Romanesque churches in that area myself in 2021, I took the second shot below, to show that nothing had changed much, more than half a century after the first one... Angelico had passed away in 2018.[ATTACH=full]416179[/ATTACH]Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens, manual focus, FTZ II adapter. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head.[ATTACH=full]416180[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue439, post: 830040, member: 53455"] [B]The Monk on the Fire Ladder (1960s and 2021)[/B] My mentor in the field of church photography was a French Benedictine monk, Dom Angelico Surchamp, the publisher of all the Zodiaque books. He was an amazing, unique person. From him I learned a little bit about photography, and tons about life in general. Using Sinar field cameras and Hasselblads, he himself took most of the luscious black-and-white photos that illustrated the Zodiaque books between, roughly, 1950 and 2000, and the most iconic photo of him is probably the one below, where he is, in his billowing black robes, perched atop the very tall firemen’s ladder on a reconnaissance mission of the high tympanum of the cathedral in the city of Angoulême (western France). And so of course, when I happened to be shooting Romanesque churches in that area myself in 2021, I took the second shot below, to show that nothing had changed much, more than half a century after the first one... Angelico had passed away in 2018. [ATTACH type="full"]416179[/ATTACH] Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens, manual focus, FTZ II adapter. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head. [ATTACH type="full"]416180[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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