{"id":15047,"date":"2019-05-25T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T05:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/?p=15047"},"modified":"2023-04-03T12:12:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T17:12:57","slug":"st-dympnas-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/st-dympnas-church\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Dympna&#8217;s Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Dympna&#8217;s Church, also known as the Kildavnet Church, was one of my stops during my recent trip to Ireland. Although I was there to play golf, I took some time to sight see and do some photography.<\/p>\n<p>The church was built in the 17th century on the south-east coast of Achill Island. The church&#8217;s name is derived from &#8216;Cill Damhnait&#8217; meaning &#8216; Church of Davnet (Dympna)&#8217;. St. Dympna is a Christian saint honored in Catholic and Orthodox traditions. According to tradition, she lived in the 7th century and was the daughter of a pagan Irish king and his Christian wife. They claim she was murdered by her father.<\/p>\n<p>I chose a low-key, black and white processing technique for this photo. I went back and forth between this and the color version. I created a slider so you can see both versions. Let me know which one you think is best. You can access the slider by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/slider-st-dympnas-church\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15044\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15044\" style=\"width: 1500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190522-untitled-162-edit.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15044\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/st-dympnas-church\/attachment\/15044\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190522-untitled-162-edit.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1500,1125\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Terry B. Kahler&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;ILCE-7RM2&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;St. Dympna&#039;s Church&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1558510281&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 Terry B. 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Photographed during the spring of 2019.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;St. Dympna&amp;#8217;s Church&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190522-untitled-162-edit-750x563.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190522-untitled-162-edit-1500x1125.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-15044 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190522-untitled-162-edit.jpg\" alt=\"St. Dympna's Church\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190522-untitled-162-edit.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190522-untitled-162-edit-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190522-untitled-162-edit-750x563.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Dympna&#8217;s Church<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This image was taken with my\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/glossary\/sony-alpha-a7r-ii\/\">Sony A7R II<\/a>\u00a0using my\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/glossary\/sony-fe-24-70mm-f4-za-oss-lens\/\">Sony FE 24-70mm f\/4 Lens<\/a> set on 24 mm. The camera was set on Manual mode with the aperture set at f\/8, shutter speed at 1\/500th of a second and the ISO set at 100. I hand held the camera for this image. This is a single image processed in Lightroom and completed in Photoshop using Nik Silver Efex Pro.<\/p>\n<p>You can see other images from my past Ireland trips by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/ireland\/\">here<\/a>. 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