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Today I arrived early at the Annunciation of our Lady Greek Orthodox church so I grabbed the opportunity while no-one was there to takes a few images of the architecture. I really love sandstone cathedrals with the exposed timber rafters, black and white is the only way to show this image.

I was there for the baptism of Zayle Pavlos, and I even tried something different, I stepped outside the doorway during the service of the Catechumen grabbing the architectural lines of the cathedrals doorway.

Zayle gave me some great eye contact, taken just before he was going to be baptised.

Of course my mandatory shot of the child in the baptismal font, as usual, black and white.

At the reception was a great looking Christmas tree, it is that time of year after all. Great backdrop to take a pic of Zayle & his mum.

The symmetry and colours of the bombomniere boxes makes an interesting picture. For those that have been following my blog, I used the remote flash triggers to take this image and the ones of the cake. The flash was sitting on a table about 2 metres away from me pointing straight to the ceiling on 1/8 power. Note how there is no shadows, no bright spots from the flash, beautiful soft light. If I hadn’t told you, would you have thought I used a flash ?

Finally the delicious cake.

Check out the detail, they obviously had some kind of stamp to get this done.

That’s it for 2007. Interesting fact or co-incidence? My last entry in 2006 was also a Christening at the Annunciation of our Lady, I’ve got goosebumps down my spine just typing this

Everyone out there, may God bless you & your family with a safe and happy Christmas, and may 2008 bring you everything you desire.

Kapa