Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: meadowbrook

On the edge of Mulliken. This appears to have been the cemetery office at one point, but has deteriorated considerably. Several sheds are attached for cemetery maintenance.

I'm not entirely certain what this grave marker means . I suspect it's something about rebirth, but the metaphor doesn't quite work for me--I'd like it better if the new growth came out of the ground instead of a planter. Nonetheless, this is a marvelous piece of art that's held up very well for over a century. Meadowbrook Cemetery, Roxand Township, Mulliken, Michigan. Facebook folks tell me this is a Woodmen of the World Women's Auxiliary monument. I claim absolutely no cemetery expertise.

Here the haze has helped me create the illusion that the graveyard goes on forever.... My 366 Snaps session for last July 6 is one of the more interesting sets in the series. I played with shadows and contrasts. Every photo's there in two or three versions, with the camera's settings changed radically from shot to shot. Dark photos, washed-out photos; high-contrast and low-contrast versions of the same framing; photos in bright sun, in dark corners, with sunlight and shadows mixed. I was getting pretty comfortable with the V1's controls. ========== The hosta photo I posted to 366 Snaps seems not to require comment..... ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 36 Title of " roll :" Flowers - Meadowbrook Other photos taken on 7/6/2012: none--but I recovered the color of a flower shot and posted that to "A Flower a Day for January."

This is the same photo as that I posted to 366 Snaps a year ago, but a different treatment. It looks like the original version used my then-usual Neopan (film) printed on Polymax (paper) imitation using Bibble Pro's Andrea plugin ; this version imitates Ilford on Ilford, which was once my film camera norm . But rarely with this high contrast. You'll see this setup again. ========== This photograph is an outtake (well, an alternate take, I suppose) from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 15 Title of " roll :" Meadowbrook Cemetery Other photos taken on 4/13/2012: Pretty much the usual thing: 42 flower census pix using the Nikon 1.