Third Creek Presbyterian Church (Organized 1774, built 1835)

--Lannie

Of the two showing the building, I like this one best....much sharper.

Thanks, Diane. 

Here is a 100 percent crop of the first floor window on the dark side.  Please note the "wavy" or undulating brick work.

"Control +" can be used to bring the image in closer.   I cannot figure out if the bricks were laid up this way or if the structure has been settling or if the bricks have been decaying.  If either of the last two, then why are there no cracks in the mortar or brick work?  I shall have to go back for a closer look.  This was shot perhaps forty feet away, and I only noticed the "waviness" during cropping or other post processing.

--Lannie

I imagine they are handmade brick - which are never even. Sometimes they used a mould which resulted in more even brick but other times, it was all hand shaped.

To infinity and beyond.  Language, as you well know, is for expressing feeling, not precise ideas.  Or something like that.  Psychophysics distinguishes the perceptual properties brightness, saturation, and loudness from the psychophysical quantities luminance, colourimetric purity, and acoustic intensity, clearly related to the forgoing but not wholly or even mostly determinative.

Sharpness is  also inherently multi-dimensional and it is tricky to define in either realm, I'm afraid.  The image of an infinitely sharp, light-dark edge will have a complex profile characterised by a finite width (calculated in some way) and a maximal contrast far from the blurred region.  Both the width and the contrast contribute to the perception of sharpness.

The building itself looks more contrasty in the this picture, so it looks sharper.  Great picture.  No need for perspective correction.  best, j