Shadows over the Dead
This view is in my neighourhood taken looking across the Chinese Cemetery in the direction of Port Townsend in Washington State.
Each of those little green rectangles in the dried grass is a grave where the moisture is retained a bit better and the grass is slower to dry out in the summer.
For more information about this National Historic Site, check out my first post about this location.
I took this photo last summer on a roll mostly shot on Quadra Island while doing field work up there.
I think I could do a better job of scanning it now, some of the late afternoon colour is missing.
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Olympus XA, f2.8/35mm lens, Fuji Superia 200 film, scanned with Epson V700.
burnt embers 
Looks good to me! BTW we have just done a special issue of BC Studies on Barkerville http://www.bcstudies.com/?q=about/profile and I expect some of the thousands of Chinese miners in the Cariboo ended up at here.
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Hi Richard. Those miners, by and large, might have passed through here. Until Sino-Japanese war in the late 1930’s, Chinese bones were gathered once every 7 years and returned to their province of origin. So the oldest graves in this cemetery, with bodies in them are probably no older than 1930. In fact, I don’t think they were buried in graves at that time, but rather in grave houses. It has been a while since I read the sources in my early post about the cemetery which I provide a link to above.
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Thanks. Yes, someone has written about this, maybe David lai, in fact Tzu-i Chung said something about it in her upcoming article in BC Studies.
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David Lai did write about it, in BC Studies no less. http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/1270/1312
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Thanks!
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