I got a call a few days ago about some of my Nauvoo Temple images and I started to reminisce about my trip to Nauvoo last year. While the rain shut me down photographically for several days, I was able to see a lot of the historic things in the area. I was there before the busy tourist season and pretty much had the town to myself. I could only get a cell signal right in front of the Temple, so I spent a lot of time there talking to the family back in Arizona. The security guards got to know me by name and I enjoyed getting to talk with them.
     The statue of Joseph and Hyrum on horseback is really dramatic. It sits right in front of the Temple and was the first place people went to when they drove into town. I saw dozens of cars drive up the hill, park in front of the Temple, the people would get out and walk to the statue, take pictures of the statue and the Temple, get in the car and drive away. There's so much to see and do in Nauvoo that I can't imagine staying for just a few minutes.
     The sun came out on my last day and I went to the Temple one last time to take some snapshots with my digital camera. These two images show changes in perspective and magnification with different lenses. On the first image I was close to the statue with a wide-angle lens. The Temple looks far away. For the second image I was further away and used a telephoto lens to magnify the statue. Notice how the Temple is much larger relative to the statue. It looks massive in comparison. The telephoto also flattens the perspective and makes the riders look more side-by-side than the wide-angle image.