The Mirror
Posted 29/08/2011 - 13:46
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You got the angle of light just right: it makes all the difference in shots like this.
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Andrew
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Andrew
"These places mean something and it's the job of a photographer to figure-out what the hell it is."
Robert Adams
"The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE."
Ernst Hass
My website: http://www.ephotozine.com/user/bwlchmawr-199050
http://s927.photobucket.com/home/ADC3440/index
https://www.flickr.com/photos/78898196@N05
Posted 29/08/2011 - 15:11
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Very good iBerg. The ruined unreadable names make it all the more poignant.
Tim
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Posted 29/08/2011 - 19:00
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Wonderful quality to this image i-Berg. As has already been said the light picks out the lettering on the gravestone to great effect.
I'm still trying to work out the meaning of the title 'The Mirror'. Is it just a mirror on life and death or is there some deeper meaning which eludes me?
David
I'm still trying to work out the meaning of the title 'The Mirror'. Is it just a mirror on life and death or is there some deeper meaning which eludes me?
David
Posted 30/08/2011 - 09:10
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Thanks all - I was fortunate to have been there at the right time for the sun.
The stone has been badly weathered - it seems it was made of a shaly / sandstone material. Given the age of that part of the cemetery, and the children's graves surrounding it, it had occurred to me that the parents were unlikely to have been well off (hence no marble).
This grave appears to have been one for three siblings. The only age visible is the top one of course.
David - the title was intended to reflect (pun intended) the passage of time above and below, and in ourselves. So you picked it, of course.
The stone has been badly weathered - it seems it was made of a shaly / sandstone material. Given the age of that part of the cemetery, and the children's graves surrounding it, it had occurred to me that the parents were unlikely to have been well off (hence no marble).
This grave appears to have been one for three siblings. The only age visible is the top one of course.
David - the title was intended to reflect (pun intended) the passage of time above and below, and in ourselves. So you picked it, of course.
Posted 30/08/2011 - 18:21
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The total anonymity is really sad. I add my congratulations to a moving image - but I suggest that it would be better if not cropped quite so tightly.
On a lighter mode: I think that the family could bring a good case for compensation against the stonemason, for use of very inferior material. Or is that in bad taste?
Martin
On a lighter mode: I think that the family could bring a good case for compensation against the stonemason, for use of very inferior material. Or is that in bad taste?
Martin
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Lizars 1910 "Challenge" quarter-plate camera; and some more recent stuff.
Lizars 1910 "Challenge" quarter-plate camera; and some more recent stuff.
Posted 31/08/2011 - 08:11
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Thanks again - point taken re the crop, I will post a 'loosened-up' version at some point.
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