Three Images of Stained Glass Windows Mounted In One Frame

Last Sunday Rev. C.E. 'Smoke' Kanipe, our senior pastor at Mauldin United Methodist Church, had his last Sunday services here before moving to his next assignment in Columbia, SC. Smoke is a great and charismatic person, and he and his wife Sue have been instrumental in making our family feel very much at home and welcomed in South Carolina.

To show our feelings of gratitude and knowing that Smoke and Sue liked the transparencies I made from one of the stained glass windows in our church, I decide to combine the images of three windows into one frame: a triptych.

The first challenge was to select what windows I would like to include. Our church has several very nice stained glass windows depicting New Testament stories, and some other that have more general Christian themes. Eventually, I decided on the Nativity and the Resurrection, marking the beginning and end of Christ's life on earth.

For the third image, I choose the Dove which stands for the Holy Spirit, the Helper (John 14:26).

After some enhancements in Lightroom (I still use version 4), I printed all three images separately with the Canon imagePrograf Pro-1000 on Canon Photo Paper Pro Semi-gloss.

The next challenge was to have the pictures matted and framed. Since this is an art on its own, which I do not master, I turned to the team of Frame Warehouse on Woodruff Road in Greenville who did a great job. I am really happy with the final result, and I hope that Smoke and his family will enjoy it too.