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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 830972" data-attributes="member: 53455">Saint Helen in the fields (2019)The chiesa campestre of Sant’ Elena is the cutest and one of the most memorable I ever photographed in Sardinia. Imagine having only vague directions to the place; no road, only a bad dirt track which I picked among several others, and on which I had to drive fingers crossed, very carefully and quite slowly, even with my 4×4... Kilometers pile up, not a soul in sight, no more cultivated fields, only what Aussies would call “the outback”... I must have taken the wrong track, and the weather has become threatening, with a big thunderstorm coming... Several times, I thought I would turn back —only there was no place to turn!— and suddenly, after almost 15 kilometers of this, I saw it, standing quietly in the middle of uncut wild grass, and just then a ray of sunshine pierced through the thick clouds and illuminated the humble façade... Talk about a miracle!Dedicated to Helen, a saint of the Greek church, Sant’ Elena is a very old, pre-Romanesque church, probably built during the 600s with local stones and pebbles and no ornamentation of any kind whatsoever. There is a shelter against the weather to the southern side.Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 24-70mm, ƒ/4 S lens, handheld.[ATTACH=full]417249[/ATTACH]</blockquote>