Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Impressive tones and contrast. Did you have a lot of post work on them? Thanks for showing, Philippe Op 1-nov-06, om 04:09 heeft Christopher Williams het volgende geschreven: > The day after Halloween is All Saints Day, which in New Orleans is > a big event as family members clean and paint their relatives > graves. I'll miss this one, but I'll be there for next year. From > my understanding, All Saints Day was created to supercede the Pagan > holiday Halloween, and since it did not stop the Pagan sinners from > celebrating, another day - All Souls Day was also created. Guess 2 > holy days beats out 1 sinner day. If it was not for some sinning > Catholic Virginians and the immigrating Irish, Halloween in America > might not have lasted. > > All 4 images are from St. Louis #1 Cemetery, located just outside > the French Quarter and across form the Iberville projects. In other > words, travel with some company or a firearm as there is only one > way in and one way out.This cemetery used to take up 4 blocks and > now is contained in 1 block. No, of course we did not remove the > tombs, we just build stuff over them. There are some Civil War > generals here, a Voodoo Queen, Revolutionary soldiers, and one rich > but died penniless creator of the game "craps". > > All images w/M6 TTL .58, 50/f2 Summicron, Kodak BW400 > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/zoeica/Travels/Cemeteries/ > > Chris Williams > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >