First Baptist Church of Fuquay-Varina

I’m always disappointed when, as a photographer, I lose the battle trying to make pictures around a gantlet of utility wires and cables, which is what I did when I stopped to photograph First Baptist Church of Fuquay-Varina on Thursday. 

As you can see in the lead-off photo, low-hanging cables dissect the heart of the church from this straight-on vantage point, which I assessed to be, shortly after I arrived, the best way to capture the church’s very modest campus at 105 N. West St. I probably could have tried to get rid of the cables with my healing tool in editing software, but I’ve failed more often than succeeded when the wires were this involved with the photo subject. 

However, I maneuvered closer to avoid the cables for the first three photos below, and in the case of the fourth photo below, I did dare to use my editing healing tool to remove the wires — with pretty decent success … except for the shadow.

For a full gallery of images from this shoot, follow the link in this sentence.