I had another nice vacation day today, visiting a friend in Boston whom I haven’t seen in ten years. We used to go to museums and historical sites together in Rome, and today we picked up where we left off by visiting the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Good art, good conversation, good food… what more could one ask for?
Here’s another photo I found languishing in a folder on my hard drive – from Switzerland, like yesterday’s photo, but this one is from inside the Chateaux de Chillon. I like the contrast of the light coming in from the window on the right, and the darkness of the door leading inwards and down. I think it can be seen as a passage in either direction; optimists would think of the window as the first thing that you would see after emerging from the castle’s dark dungeon; the pessimist would think of the window as the last light you see before being submerged in the gloom.
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About Fr Matthew Green
Currently parochial vicar at Holy Family Parish, on Cape Ann (serving the churches of St. Ann, St. Joachim, and St. Anthony). I moved to the area in early August '11, and am very happy to be in such a welcoming community and beautiful location!
One of my hobbies is photography. You can see my photos
on Flickr and buy prints of some of them
on Fine Art America.
I am a daily contributor to
GoodMorningGloucester (GMG for short), a blog by and about the community of Gloucester specifically and Cape Ann in general. The content is diverse, ranging from the beautiful and sublime to the earthy and occasionally offensive. I hope my contributions are of the former kind, not the latter. So, while I cannot endorse all the content that is posted there, I am grateful to Joey (the founder and admin of the blog) for giving me space to make my contribution.
I also have my own blog,
Perpetual Learner, which mostly includes my homilies and some re-posts from GMG, but also sometimes has other content, such as my personal reflections, videos I like, etc.
I’d go with the optimistic version today, because I’m having an optimistic year.
It’s a very striking shot; the lighting is fairy tale-like, and the composition builds a totally mysterious atmosphere. I’d love to find out what is at the end of the path, and what hides behind the closed door.