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04/28/09: Holy Week and Pascha Photo Montage

Category: Holy Cross Seminary

Posted by: Seraphim

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A photo montage of my best pictures from Holy Week and Pascha. High Def video at my YouTube page.

04/26/09: Greek Independence Day

Category: Holy Cross Seminary

Posted by: Seraphim

Today there was a parade for Greek Independence Day. The actual day of Greek independence was on Annunciation in the middle of Lent, a time when we don't celebrate much, so the parade was today. I can't say I'm a fan of nationalism in any form, but I can enjoy participating with people in things that are important to them. Being in the parade myself I only got to take pictures of our group, and it was hard taking shots among a crowd, plus at midday the light was too bright. Still, I got a few good shots. Enjoy!

A few more pictures are on the Greek Independence Day photo page. For full-sized pictures look in the gallery.

04/25/09: Gospel Readings in Chinese

Category: Holy Cross Seminary

Posted by: Seraphim

This is me reading John 20:19-25 at the Agape Vespers on Pascha Sunday. It's in three parts. The camera mic didn't pick it up so well, so you'll have to turn the volume up, especially for the first reading.

The readings were done in 10 different languages, this is a selection from most of them. There is also some footage from the end of Agape Vespers and a little Greek folk dancing from our Paschal feast after services.

04/14/09: Holy Week at Holy Cross/Helenic College

Category: Holy Cross Seminary

Posted by: Seraphim

I hope everyone will enjoy these pictures I'm posting from Holy Week. I wasn't able to add much to the services, so this is my offering for the week. I'm sure I must have annoyed everyone moving around the chapel and taking flash shots in people's faces, but I tried hard to take pictures that would be memorable, pictures that said something about what was going on. It's not easy to get a good shot. Photography is becoming a throw away art. Everyone with a cheap phone has a camera and any picture can be touched up in Photoshop. Pictures are often uploaded to Facebook to be glanced at and forgotten. But to make something beautiful takes care and patience. It says a lot about you, the way you see other people.

Photography isn't my favorite hobby, videography is. (please watch some of my videos from Taiwan) I filmed a lot of religious ritual in Taiwan, and tried to apply the same principals toward showing our own rites. I learned this week that even though a photograph shows less, in freezing a particular moment you can capture and display a certain action that a video of the same even would pass over. I'm far from a professional, but I hope everyone will see something beautiful here.

Note: If you have a little time, just look at the best pictures (122 pics). All the pics are in the full album for Holy Week (321 pics). These are print-quality. Everyone has my permission to use any photos that you or your friends or family are in. If you want, print them, or upload them to your Facebook. I'd only ask no one puts them on Flicr or other photo sites, I'll be doing that myself for all the best ones I took. If you want to print a picture, go to that picture in the album, click on the picture. It will open in a new window, full sized. Right click to save it. These are very big, 1-2mb. Most of the close-ups of people are here.