Ross Bay Cemetery III
I have posted a few times now about Ross Bay Cemetery. You can find out more about it in those earlier posts.
This picture is from last weekend, on the first truly warm day of 2012. We passed through the cemetery on our way home from the market – this lane is at the west end of the cemetery, a continuation of May Street but for foot traffic only. The treatment of this image is assisted with the holga-ish filter in Picasa, lightly applied and with some other contrast tweaks. I quite like the low saturation, it suits the subject. I wanted to emphasize the shadows of the tree trunks in the foreground, and they were not nearly so prominent in full colour.
Canon 5Dii, Nikkor-N 24mm/f2.8 (pre-ai) lens. ISO100, ~f/11, 1/60th.
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This post is set to publish in my absence. I will have limited access to a computer. I might be able to respond to comments over the weekend; if not I will do so in a few days..
burnt embers 
Cemeteries are generally beautiful, and you took a great shot of this particularly lovely one.
I like looking at the date of birth and death on epitaphs and compute how long they lived. When they’re young, I like to imagine what happened to cause them to die so soon. – L
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Me too. I have a picture of a baby’s grave that I might put up. Stark.
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Really great PP, love the muted colours (I am a sucker for that)! Love the shadow the trees are providing, I can see why you would want to emphasize them! 😀
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Hi David – I like those muted colours too, but don’t usually find a way to make them work. I really like the way you do it with various layers that you control independently over a black and white version of the image. That works really well. I took another point of view with a lot more of the pavement in it and am still trying to decide if there is some way of using it. This one works well with some much of the canopy in it.
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Nice treatment on this. The filters in Picasa seem to work really well for subjects like this. The lighting is perfect,too. Even though this is a cemetery, it looks like a pleasant place to relax. Does that sound strange?
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Hi Ken. The filters have some uses – just enough control that if you play with them just for a few minutes you can decide if it is something to come back to in the future. But, for me anyway, there are only a couple that do things in ways I would like.
The cemetery was designed to be a pleasant place – part of that classic school of landscape design that created those beautiful private vistas and parks on country estates in Britain with forward planning on a century long timeline. Makes sense that one would want to be buried in a relaxing place, so why should it not be for the living too? So my answer to your question is not it’s not strange, unless you hung out here wearing vampire teeth, relaxing in a satin lined box, in some dark and chilly mausoleum.
I had a lesson today in blog-liking frenzies. One viewer liked 41 of my posts this morning, in just over 3 minutes. Lots of them were galleries that would take a minute to click through really rapidly. One minute 12 likes, another minute 11 likes. I wish I could assimilate information fast enough to decide that I like something in 5 seconds (ignoring the galleries and minus the navigating time between posts – lets say 2 or 3 seconds for on average about 3 images per post). Terrific skill to have, like speed reading. And honestly, ;), I am torn between taking it as a compliment or an insincere attempt to get me to look a their (
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The part that really makes me wonder about it is that however they managed to motor through my blog, it did not register as views – there should have been a spike of 40+ views in one hour on that little WP bar we can see when logged in. There is one of those from yesterday morning, but nothing but the usual speckle of 4 or 5 or 6 views an hour since then. The country they are from shows 5 views today, a country I don’t usually get views from. So, how does one skip so lightly through WP while at the same time being heavy-handed on the like button?
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wonderful composition!
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Thanks Sonali, glad you like it.
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