Grave Tiles
More from Ross Bay Cemetery – these images are from last weekend. These are of a tiled surface on a grave.
You can find out more about Ross Bay Cemetery in these earlier posts.
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Canon G15, 6.1mm (=28mm full frame), ISO80, f1.8, 1/640th top, 1/400th bottom, both +/- E.V. 2.0.
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Lovely. The texture is quite interesting. I especially like to broken lines among the tiles.
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Thanks Ryan – I like these ones too – quite a bit better than today’s post of other tiled graves which are in better condition.
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I really like these, ephem. The tiles look like they have leaves sitting in the middle of each one (water marks?).
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Hi Karen, they are water marks, from slightly dirty water. But your mention of leaves suggests how this might have come about – I bet there were leaves lying here for a long time, collecting dirt and so on.
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Wow, really interesting. There are a ton of details to be found in these images. Great patterns, and the spots of color add a great element. LOVE the results of your wife’s camera, Ehpem, it did a terrific job on this set!
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Thank you Toad. I am very pleased with how that camera is performing – it is excellent. Tomorrow’s post looks at it’s in-camera HDR feature which will likely be of interest to you.
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To me, especially in its cemetery setting, you have created here a beautiful portrayal of “time”. Very nice.
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Thank you Joseph. That is very nicely put. In fact it looks a bit like I have been feeling of late, all that creeping decay..
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These are very nice. What’s making the dark spots in each tile? Is it water that’s collected there?
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Hi Melinda and thanks. The dark spots are sediment and I think they must be from dirty water drops that stand on the tiles – perhaps the tiles are slightly concave and hold the water though it could just be surface tension. It is a nice effect whatever it is.
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These are quite remarkable in respect to color, texture and composition. I’m not familiar with the G15 but it looks like it did a great job here.
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Thanks Ken – there were several graves with black and white tiles, and I photographed others. But the shabby appearance of this one was by far the most interesting.
The G15 is a point and shoot camera in the Powershot series. My wife received it for Christmas and since my camera is off at a music festival for a few days I took the opportunity to put the G15 through (some of) its paces. I found it highly satisfactory. It has full manual controls and many of the other features of a DSLR, including bracketing, wide ISO range, CMOS sensor, various timers, rapid fire shooting, RAW mode, really good image stabilisation, and so on. The lens is a fixed zoom 28mm to 200mm (full frame equivalent) zoom and is fast at f1.8 / 28mm and very clean. I could live with this camera in the absence of my 5Dii, or instead of for travelling.
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