My Shot of the Day: Moonrise Over Our Lady of Guadalupe

By on May 4, 2012 in My Shot of the Day, New Mexico, USA, North America

Moonrise over Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Taos, New Mexico. Thursday, May 3, 2012.

ISO 100, f/18, 1/20s with a Nikkor 55-300mm lens.

On Nov. 18, 1801 in Durango, Bishop Olivares granted permission to the community of Taos to build a

The waxing gibbous of May 3, 2012

church. The adobe structure was completed in 1802. In 1833 Bishop Zubiria, of Durango, decreed that Our Lady of Guadalupe could become a parish and it was then that the new church of the pregnant Virgin was built on the northwest side of the Taos Plaza.

Taos NM Churches

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16 Responses to My Shot of the Day: Moonrise Over Our Lady of Guadalupe

  1. Jim O'Donnell May 4, 2012 at 12:30 pm #

    John Mata are you thinking a little write up like this for Extreme or something more extensive?

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  2. Jim O'Donnell May 4, 2012 at 12:30 pm #

    John Mata are you thinking a little write up like this for Extreme or something more extensive?

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    • John Mata May 4, 2012 at 12:49 pm #

      Yes, both! I think we're open there. The main idea is collaboration and networking.

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    • Jim O'Donnell May 4, 2012 at 12:51 pm #

      John Mata So, how about for a start, I use this, expand it, we post it and go from there? I know a photographer in Denmark who would be interested. A friend.

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    • John Mata May 4, 2012 at 12:52 pm #

      Yeap, let's pop the cork.

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    • John Mata May 4, 2012 at 12:54 pm #

      Do you still have your login information?

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    • Maria Lemus May 4, 2012 at 1:06 pm #

      Wow so beautiful!

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    • Jim O'Donnell May 4, 2012 at 1:07 pm #

      John Mata sweet

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    • Jim O'Donnell May 4, 2012 at 1:07 pm #

      Maria Lemus – Thank you amica mia!

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  3. John Mata May 4, 2012 at 12:57 pm #

    Friends, check out Jim O'Donnell's "Moonrise Over Our Lady of Guadalupe" shot. I really dig the cross silhouette brought on by the moon rising in the backdrop.

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    • Jim O'Donnell May 4, 2012 at 1:07 pm #

      Thanks John Mata ! This is one I'd like to try in HDR

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  4. Lane May 4, 2012 at 5:31 pm #

    Nice one, Jim!

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  5. Marie Coté Twarogowski May 15, 2012 at 12:56 pm #

    Nice!

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  6. Moira Haag May 24, 2012 at 4:03 pm #

    Lovely!

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  7. Imelda May 27, 2012 at 4:41 pm #

    lovely!

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