Revered..

Posted by amy (Nanaimo, BC, Canada) on 18 April 2007 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.

What I do today is important because I'm exchanging a day of my life for it. Albert M Wells, Jr.

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I appreciate all visits and comments and thank you always... ;-)

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Comments (18)

Shar from Regina, SK, Canada

Great message and great shot. Ah, someone else who tramps around graveyards!!!

18 Apr 2007 5:08am

@Shar: Hi Shar! Thanks so much... it's the dark twisted side of my nature that forces me to look at things like this occasionally. ;-) And graveyards are just so fascinating with the sad, and sometimes, happy stories in them. Not to mention the visual cornicopia they present.

Art Monkey from Salt Spring Island, Canada

very nice

18 Apr 2007 5:33am

@Art Monkey: Thanks Art! I know it's a little out there, so to speak, but sometimes I have to go the dark side.. ;-)

Behrooz from Tehran, Iran

I like the nice white in the picture, Amy.

18 Apr 2007 6:00am

@Behrooz: Thanks Behrooz! ;-)

Rahul from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Nice shot Amy, and good PS work, now with these shots you are tempting me to wander into graveyards looking for such meaningful shots hehe...!!! Earlier it was macros and now this series. I shall follow my friend to church this Sunday. :-)

18 Apr 2007 8:40am

@Rahul: Rahul, dude! Glad you like the series... and there are such interesting perspectives visually and mentally in the cemeteries. ;-)

Craiger from Vacaville, California, United States

I like graveyards too! ;0)

18 Apr 2007 10:47am

@Craiger: Hey Craiger!! They are so fascinating!! and the history, or stories, you find in cemeteries are so totally of the human condition. ;-)

Laurie from New Jersey, United States

Great saying and matched with the photo, it makes you think.

I like the soft treatment on this one.

18 Apr 2007 2:56pm

@Laurie: Thank you Laurie!!! It took me quite awhile to get the effect I wanted.. and still didn't quite get there. Need to learn more about ps.. ;-)

Anne from White Rock, Canada

I used to like the old graveyards many moons ago back in England! A Church yard near us had such fantastic old gravestones and monuments dating back to the 16th Century - there was a gateway in at the end of our road and a winding downhill path to the other gate, which gave us a shortcut to the bus stop. Could tell you a hair raising story about being locked in a crypt when I was 3 yrs old (and I remember it too!) Maybe that's why I don't go near them much now. Or maybe I'm just getting old and think I will be there soon enough!. Your quote is very apt!
The photo composition and mood is excellent. I think I would prefer it if you could have stopped down your lens a teeny bit smaller than f4.2 and had the main focus of attention at the front sharper with more detail on the stone - but with the background still blurred. However, it does convey the mood!

18 Apr 2007 3:01pm

@Anne: Yeah, you're right... hind sight and all that rot ;-). It was hard to see my monitor in the washed out light we had that day and I actually thought I had the shot! Typical. Next time I'll bracket my shots better. I would looove to visit some of the old grave yards in jolly old (sorry you got locked in a crypt... that would be terrifying). With Canada being so young in comparison we just don't have that history. I so appreciate your visits and opinions (advice).. the more I learn the more I realize I don't know!!

Jen from Jessup, United States

I love graveyards too. I have some shots from some little churches in the Smokies, but I haven't had a chance to mess around with them in ps yet...but now you have inspired me to pull them up and see what I can do to them!! Oh...Great Shot and PP work Amy!!! and I love the quote!

18 Apr 2007 3:14pm

@Jen: Thank you oodles Jen! The graveyard thing can be touchy 'cuz it's so easy to offend (as I've discovered in the office I work in) but there are just so many opportunities to convey a message visually... as I said before.. the history and stories in those places is both sad and heartwarming! ;-)

Rahul from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

I agree with that, an in terms of mental perspectives i am not worried, i have been a ghost friendly person right from childhood. ;-)

I mean at times i can sense, feel and even see things which others don't see around. Infact i remember when i was 10 years old i won the bet of crossing the graveyard at 12 midnight, infact i sat there for 45 mins eating bananas, and people outside really got worried hahaha... LOL

18 Apr 2007 3:21pm

@Rahul: Oh Rahul... you are such a card!! ;-) I believe that all people are sensitive to the otherside... it's just whether or not they're willing to tune in. So I get where you're coming from totally.

Richard_Irwin from Belper, United Kingdom

The whiteness and PP gives it an interesting look to me, like a scene from a dream or an imagined place.

18 Apr 2007 6:29pm

@Richard_Irwin: I guess Richard in somes ways I feel it is an imagined place because we don't really know 'till we get there.. Thanks so much for your insightful comment.. always really appreciate your comments!! ;-)

Reza from Montreal, Canada

Nice shot and message. The otherside is a question which will be answered just when we go there ! of course if there is any .

18 Apr 2007 6:33pm

@Reza: Thanks Reza... that's kind-a where I was going. Really appreciate your visits and comments... truly. ;-)

Roberta Murray from Rocky Mountain House, Canada

Awesome Amy! I really like what you've done with this one. I like the softness and the high key lighting. I may have used a curves adjustment to increase contrast slightly and give a bit more pop to the dark areas, but it's a case of having to play to see if that works or not.

18 Apr 2007 9:55pm

@Roberta Murray: Hey Roberta!! Wow, you like it! Thanks! Yeah, I played a bit with the curves ... this was about as far as I wanted to go. We do think alike you and I! ;-) But maybe you could show me better in how to use the curves adjustment... I think I'm missing something.

bronzebilly u.k. from cardiff, United Kingdom

hey Amy--what's with everybody and graveyards--I only want to go there once--and I won't know much about that trip--however on the other hand--you've pulled off some great captures-so hey ho on you go--watch where your walking though--one peeper through the lens and one on the ground-or down the hole never to be found:-)billy

18 Apr 2007 10:36pm

@bronzebilly u.k.: Charm is definitely your strong point!! LOL ;-) I'm glad you like this little series of mine. One more to go and then no mo'.... you're not the only one who can stretch a poetic phrase ;-)

Chris Sullivan from Melbourne, Australia

Nice shot Amy, good use of processing to get across the theme.

18 Apr 2007 10:50pm

@Chris Sullivan: Thanks so much Chris! ;-)

Richard Cleaver from Toronto, Canada

The image has drama. Monochromatic yet certain tones stand out. And the foreground presents a soft focus which creates a dreamlike feel to the picture. A stone which cannot tell the story of life. Well done!

19 Apr 2007 12:30am

@Richard Cleaver: Thank seems like such a trite response to such an incredible interpretation of this image.. but thank you so much never-the-less! This is definitely going into my favourites list!! ;-) and most especially, it gladdens me greatly that I moved you in some small way!