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This is at the Richmond, KY Cemetery. This is a group of graves arranged from largest to smallest...the smallest has tipped over.
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Thank you so much for your comments. Here is the grave site from an alternative view (unedited).
I went back the other day and looked for a name on the tombstone, but it's so old it has warn off. It looks like a family and this stone being so much smaller implies this was a child or an infant. This cemetery is from around the late 1700's, so this grave could be quite old.
Anyway, thank you to the unknown owner of the tombstone...I can only imagine that person never thought of their tombstone being used to express art in a digital photo contest, seen by those from places this person most likely could never have fathomed.
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Seeing this for the first time here - unusually for me I never took a look at this challenge in voting.
I find I like this image, it's more than the sum of it's parts - the high contrast, the degree of tilt, the subject matter,the depth of field, the title all fit together really well and communicate intent.
There is much information lost in the shadows, but it is a testament to your choices that we don't miss it, those swathes of background black communicate enough of the form of the trees behind to set the scene and define the wider environment without robbing any attention from the gravestones.
I look at the tilt and wonder if the eccentric stone should be vertical, I can see that if you rotated the image, you clip some of the bottom of your image and mess up the relationship between the stones, we do need to see it going past the one beyond. I also think a straightened shot would lose some of it's power, the slight off kilter would be an insult to the nonconformist.
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