This little bird hit my front door on Thursday. I picked this little one up and let the stun of hitting the window go away. After a few minutes the little bird was able fly away.

My View of Life on the Dock
This little bird hit my front door on Thursday. I picked this little one up and let the stun of hitting the window go away. After a few minutes the little bird was able fly away.

After all those awesome photos from Len, I decided to try my hand at photographing the frost on the window of our storm door yesterday, using my iPhone and an accessory macro lens.

Beyond a doubt, one of the most beautiful depictions of this kind and theme I’ve ever seen. More info about the windows in this series of my posts is available on the church’s website.
Fr. Matthew Green

…which is represented by an anchor in Christian iconography. Nice nautical imagery for a stained glass window in Gloucester. I expect we’ll be hearing a lot about hope as this election year goes forward.

Wherever you find your hope, share it with someone who needs it. Hope grows when we share it, and the more people are inspired by it, the better chance it has of coming true.
Another detail from a stained glass window in St. Ann’s Church in Gloucester (part of Holy Family Parish).
We usually focus on the people and events in the window and can easily overlook the wonderful attention to detail in the backgrounds…
Eventually I hope to photograph the stained glass windows in other churches in Gloucester. Any suggestions of churches with really great windows besides St. Ann’s?
Seen from outside, with a lighted interior, at the office Mark Nestor (Attorney) on Middle Street in Gloucester.

Just for comparison, below I am including the photo as I originally took it. All the changes between the two photos are from post-processing in the powerful free app called “Gimp”. It’s user interface is a bit different from what most people are used to, but it’s very useful, and you can’t beat the price tag (free!).
Seen on New Years’ Day in the morning, on a window in the old St. Ann’s High School building on Prospect St. This is sort of follow-up to my other recent post with a photo of this building; this is a detail of the same window, but on a different day. I like the jeweled effect of the beads of condensation on the glass, absent in the other photo.