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San Xavier Mission


San Xavier Mission
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Copyright: Chris Jules (chrisJ) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 4181 W: 407 N: 6449] (41275)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-11
Categories: Architecture
Camera: Pentax Me Super, Pentax 28mm f:2,8, Fuji 100, Polarizer ø28mm
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2009-02-15 0:47
Viewed: 183
Points: 26
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
San Xavier Mission is a short bus ride from Tucson Arizona. I liked this framed arch view of the mission. If you look very carefully, you'll see a cactus & a dog.

From Wikipedia:

"Mission San Xavier del Bac is a historic Spanish Catholic mission located about 10 miles (16 km) south of downtown Tucson, Arizona on the Tohono O'odham San Xavier Indian Reservation. Named for a pioneering Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit Order), the Mission is also known as the "place where the water appears" as the Santa Cruz River (which runs underground) surfaces nearby[citation needed]. The Mission is situated in the center of a centuries-old Indian settlement of the Tohono O'odham (formerly known as Papago), located along the banks of the Santa Cruz River.

The mission was founded in 1699 by the Jesuit missionary Eusebio Francisco Kino, who often visited and preached in the area. The original mission church, located about two miles (3 km) away, was vulnerable to Apache attacks who finally destroyed it in about 1770. Charles III of Spain banned all Jesuits from Spanish lands in the Americas in 1767 because of his distrust of the Jesuits. From this time on, San Xavier mission was led by the more pliable and "reliable" Franciscans. The present building was constructed under the direction of Franciscan Fathers Juan Bautista Velderrain and Juan Bautista Llorenz mainly with native labor working from 1783-1797 with a loan of 7,000 pesos and serves the Catholics of the San Xavier District of Tohono O'odham Nation. Alone of the Spanish missions in Arizona, San Xavier is still actively served by Franciscans, and still serves the Native community by which it was built. The San Xavier church and its Indian converts were protected from Apache raids by the presidio of Tucson, established in 1775."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Xavier_del_Bac
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Hi Chris,
A wonderful view of architecture vith Great POV and excellent natural frame.TFS.
Cheers,

hAyAti

Olá Chris,
Very good this natural frame as FP. Great DOF.
Very good image.
TFS
Raimundo

Hello Chris! Interesting gate, wonderful POV and composition. Good light and contrast. Nice colours. Good luck!

Hi Chris,

amazing view, impressive colours, nice composition and great depth of the field.

Have a nice Sunday,

Stasa

Hello Chris,

The viewpoint is beautiful with the ornate gate and the sun dappled, highly textured wall, making an impact as the natural frame.

The focal point of the white mission, is a difficult subject with the strong sunlight on its white exterior, and set against a pale sky.
However, you have coped well.
(As an extra thought, maybe a selective saturation of the sky would have been helpful to you. Perhaps!)

Have a good day,
Bev :-)

Helo Chris
View thry...
Like i have say Arizona have lovely church from difrent religions and couple of them have Gnada showed here
TFS
Cheers,Braca

Hello Chris,
Perfect angle of wiew, nice framing effect of gate.
TFS
Selahattin E

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  • mbrito Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1618 W: 118 N: 2771] (11196)
  • [2009-02-15 6:11]

Hello Chris
Excelent peerspective and composition with a superb focus in the distant building. Great light and colours, and an excelent grphic effec with the iron gate.
Great work.
Best regards, mb

I like how you used this gate to FRAME the building in the background! Nice work on this Chris. I am enjoying your photos from your trip. How many did you take? We were talking about that last night. If I were to go to South Africa, with my son this summer..can you imagine the photos?? 1000's!
B-)
Linda

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  • nicou Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1198 W: 0 N: 2344] (19400)
  • [2009-02-15 8:08]

Hello,

quelb eau portal, il se détache à merveille, le cadrage au millimètre et ce merveilleux palias en fond, grandiose.

Bravo et amitié

Nicou

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  • pozaru Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3533 W: 725 N: 2377] (18877)
  • [2009-02-16 4:42]

I like the light&shadows on the "frame".
Beautiful compo.

thanks,
v

Ciao Chris, splendid view of wonderful architecture, well framed by gate, very well done, ciao Silvio

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  • harpya Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 5615 W: 197 N: 2307] (8984)
  • [2009-02-16 18:11]

Ciao Chris


I like the graphic effects which has the gate,
A beautiful frame to emphasize the beauty of the mission to the bottom!
Excellent perspective and composition,
Good light and contraste.
From very good taste and good point of view!
Greetings!

Sergio

Hello Chris,

Excellent idea and composition!
Congratulations and TFS.
Sergio

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