The Easter Vigil is one of my favorite services

I knew I wanted to get a candlelight picture. In my mind I thought it would be of all the congregation. However, I saw this picture which I had to take ‘around’ Lanie who was sitting next to me. This is the shot I saw and wanted to get. It is not the picture I took – as I had the wrong lens on the camera. To achieve the very narrow depth of field I wanted, I added the lens blur in post processing.

I used this photograph as the cover picture for the first Spirit Magazine I edited and produced (Volume 6 No. 2 – April 2014).

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