Ryman Auditorium Photograph I made a firm decision

I made a firm decision on that cold rainy November 2012

We then spent a half hour reading the carved inscriptions on the inside of the memorial

the beautiful San Francisco skyline on the far right

after sunset

and everyone I met had been great to me

Ryman Auditorium Photograph I made a firm decisionThis is the "Mother Church" of Country Music, here in Nashville. It used to be a church, built in the 1800's and in the 1900's became a world famous music venue, hosting the "Grand Ole Opry" (the biggest country music radio show in the country) for decades! I shot this in three parts, on a tripod, with vintage lenses from the 1970s, to give it a special glow, and then stitched the 3 images together at the end to make one ultra wide capture of 180