Mike Chavez is responsible for most of the photographs on the St. John Neumann website. He travels on most Life Teen trips, takes a lot of great shots, and uploads them to the SJN gallery.

I draw from his photos to populate the random banner that appears at the top of the website. This photo at Covecrest was very interesting because the dormant winter grass behind the crosses created near zero contrast, so they did not show up very well. However, because of the angle of reflection in the water, the light brown crosses, did show against the blue sky and green trees.

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To accentuate this effect, I turned anything above the waterline gray scale and enhanced the colors below the waterline.