Today I finally had time to complete a project I've been working on for a few weeks now—I posted all the pictures that I've taken and spruced up of all the middle and lower scenes depicted in Kenrick-Glennon Seminary's stained glass windows. The middle scenes depict events in Jesus' and Mary's lives, while the lower stained glass incorporates important events in the history of the St. Louis Archdiocese.
Due to my inability to get a ladder in and out of chapel (so far) in a timely fashion, I have yet to take pictures of the upper stained glass window sections, which depict the lives of many different saints. I hope to do this sometime soon... but I make no promises!
Since I'm sure someone will ask, "How did you get all those pictures to look so realistic and colorful?," I will answer here: First, I waited until the right time of day (morning for the east side, and evening for the west side) in order to have the full sun shining through the windows. Second, I took the pictures with my D40 set to manual mode, which allowed me to make sure the camera didn't over- or underexpose the pictures. Third, I played with the colors in Photoshop's RAW importer to make them pop a little more. Finally, I cropped the pictures and straightened their perspective (because I was shooting the pictures from the ground, and the windows are quite tall) in Photoshop, and corrected for the small amount of lens distortion my lens created by using the 'Distortion > Lens Correction...' command in Photoshop (CS2 and higher). Really, it's not too hard to do; it just takes some time.