BGuthrie Photos: MD -- Kensington -- Mormon Temple at Christmas

MD -- Kensington -- Mormon Temple at Christmas:

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Description of Pictures: Every year, the grounds of the public visitors center at the Mormon Temple gets decorated up for Christmas. A million lights, re-enactments in a manger, lots of friendly smiling faces. It's very pretty. Unfortunately, of course, they consider it to be a good time to convert the heathens. So this attractive, well dressed, young woman strikes up a short conversation with me that after a few howdy do's becomes "So have you ever talked to missionary, like me, before?" "Not willingly, no." She gave up after a few more minutes.

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Description of Subject Matter: The Mormon Temple in Kensington, Maryland is the 16th operating temple of the religious denomination. The 52-acre site was selected in 1962 but it wasn't announced until 1968 when the groundbreaking occurred. There was a five-week open house in 1974 and then the structure was closed to all but Mormons. (I'm told all of the carpet was ripped out after the non-believers had gone through it.) The temple itself is made of reinforced concrete sheathed with 173,000 square feet of Alabama white marble.
Every year, they sponsor a monster Christmas light display to bring in people and, if you can get around the ones who try to convert you, it's quite nice. Newsweek mentioned that they don't really consider themselves Christian although the non-Mormon visitor center prominently promotes Jesus Christ.
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2002 photos: Image quality isn't going to be very good for the first half of this year because these are scans of prints. Equipment this year: I took the plunge and bought my first digital camera. It was August 2002 and I bought an Epson PhotoPC 3100Z. While a nice camera, it had some quirks and bumping it would result in it being totally out of focus until you manually shut it down -- something which blurred almost every picture I took in New York City one day. Trips this year: Two weeks out west, one week in New York, and one week down south. This was the year I started the photo web site. It started to come together in August 2002, mostly as a way of allowing me to keep track of the pictures I was taking. It took awhile to add some basic bells and whistles (logging didn't get added until November) but it's been pretty much like it started out since then. Archaic but working, and free!
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