After a walking tour of the Frank Lloyd Wright houses in Oak Park, the walk home to the CTA Green Line train station passed this church, and I decided to take a few impromptu shots.  This was one of what I felt was the better shots as I stumbled across this church on one of the side streets–I didn’t know what church this was or what faith worshiped there, I just liked the structure and the window artwork that I could see from the outside.

This is actually the First United Methodist Church in Oak Park, located at 324 N Oak Park Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302.

This was shot with film on a Vivitar SLR camera.

A side note about photography….

I find photography to be more of an artistic release, and tend to shoot for that purpose, rather than for commercial reasons or uses.

I engage in photography because I want to capture a secret split-second moment, and I want that moment to mean something.  Even if it’s something most see as trivial or mundane, it’s what I see and what that image means to me. Some of my images I have found to be able to transverse the artistic to commercial, but its only been in rare cases and never been the sole focus of this kind of work.

I was taught by my photography teacher that you can’t judge one’s photographic skill solely based on the gear they use. Sometime the best pictures can be taken from a simple point and shoot, and just because you have the latest model DSLR with the best lens does not mean you have instant photographic gold.

My photographic arsenal is equipped with a Cannon AE-1 SLR with multiple lenses, a Minolta Maxxum 7-Xl, a Vivitar film SLR, a Nikon Coolpix E4200 point and shoot, and Nikon Coolpix S4100 point and shoot, and occasionally the iPhone7.