The crosses are JUST wooden crosses, which may be why they look like cardboard. This is not a cemetery, Ann, it is a hill covered with crosses to mark the dead soldiers in Iraq (and now Afghanistan). I showed it before, maybe two or one years ago, in a little GESO. I've gone back to photograph it several times. I am thinking of offering and/or suggesting to them that they do a blurb book of photos to raise money. (Why partly my question, need to get LR 4 first, though.)
It is a peace protest, or to be more accurate, it started as a peace protest and over the years it has also become a memorial. (It's in my home town, where I grew up, I am proud of them.) There is a sign at the top of the hill that is updated to count the number of U.S. dead. Because there is nothing else like it, vets have come to visit, and families of dead vets, and some crosses have been adopted, and sport added-on decorations. Those are the hardest hitting. And those visiting have been known to say, "I am glad SOMEONE remembers." So what started out as controversial, when everyone was gung-ho US war and all that, has now become a nice memorial and it faces the BART train, so tons and tons of people see it while commuting. But the idea of promoting peace and also honoring the dead has never been an adversarial position in my opinion and in the opinion of many others. I am just glad it is still there (a woman donated the land for this use, sort of a rental, and she died, but it continues on). Marnie Which is why I included a link for it in case, someone didn't know what it was. In a message dated 1/6/2013 4:09:50 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: I can never bring myself to photograph cemetaries... heavy stuff, Marnie. The odd thing to me is how cardboardy the strong light makes the gravemarkers look... Is this a cemetary for the impoverished? ann On 1/6/2013 18:14, [email protected] wrote: > Thanks!, Rick. > > Marnie aka Doe :-) The light is about all I had going for me. Heh. > > In a message dated 1/6/2013 11:24:22 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > That's a beautiful and poignant shot, Marnie; and yes, you nailed the > light. > > Cheers, > > Rick > > http://photo.net/photos/RickW > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Sent: Sunday, January 6, 2013 1:29 PM > Subject: PESO - A Dying of the Light... > > There's a new annual coming out... and I remembered I still have a Pentax > Optio (A40). > > So running around re-shooting things I shot this past year (MIGHT get > something usable). Only the Optio is so lightweight it is hard to hold > steady, > it doesn't handle highlighted areas well (fringes), and other stuff. But > it > does have a green button and 12 mpx, so maybe... > > Revisited the crosses of Lafayette > (http://lafayettecrosses.blogspot.com/), and while there are others that > are possible, I like this one (for > showing here). > > I did hit it at the right time of day. > > http://www.mapphotography.com/PAWS/pages/dyinglight.html > > Comments welcome. > > Marnie aka Doe > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
