I recently saw an episode of This American Life on Catholic people who go to the Mojave desert in CA to take pictures of the sun hoping to capture an image of the Virgin Mary. In the episode, Ira Glass asks, “Of course, if god is everywhere and you already believe in god–no question about that–why do you need a picture?”
The whole situation perplexed me, so I tried shooting the sun in Champaign.
When I took pictures of the sun, though, I found that it hurt my eyes to look at them. It is as if each image stole a piece of the sun.
Virgin Mary Sightings in the Mojave Desert
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