About the Image(s)

Last month, at the end of a workshop titled Birds of Colombia, our last stop was in a very colorful and beautiful colonial town in the mountains of the Colombian Andes chain not far from Medellin in the Antioquia region. The town is called Jardin (Garden in English) and has a very interesting cathedral named Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, a Roman Catholic Diocese and of Neo-Gothic design, erected in 1918, and built with hand carved stones that parishioners brought from a quarry as penance for their sins. I went to visit and photograph early in the morning (around 6:30 AM). There was an early mass going on, so I entered through one of the side doors into a lateral wing. Interesting I noted a lady sitting in the back and when she saw me with the camera, she hid her face behind the edge of the door. Here we can appreciate the characteristics of the stones used to build the church.
The image was created with a Nikon Z8 with the Nikkor zoom lens Z 24-200 mm f/4-6.3 @ 60 mm and these settings: ISO 10000 (auto), f/6 and 1/125 sec. The image was PP in LightRoom, Denoise applied and cropped.