A few photos from my last project for my photo class.

[Ms. Toad]

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Ms. Toad! I like your work a lot.

These are so interesting and involving to my eye.

There are so many cool details and differing subjects!

Thank you.

You should get an "A"!

[Ms. Toad]

4. Thank you!

I suspect I'm getting an A, but unlike all of my other classes I haven't had any graded feedback yet for the semester. I asked about what I should do for the final project (45% of our grade). His response included this comment, "You have fulfilled all expectations as far as the actual color output of the class is concerned, so . . . I would say go with whatever you feel would provide you with a more enriching, but not too stressful, experience in terms of shooting and printing."

I spent the day yesterday at my CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). My final project will be based following the farmers around during the next two weeks of the spring planting season. I haven't looked at the images yet, but I'm pretty sure I got some good ones. I'll head out for another shoot next Wednesday after I have a chance to process the ones from yesterday.

[Wishful-Thinking]

2. All are lovely, but

That middle photo is amazing how it reflects the bigger picture. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, isn’t it?!

[Ms. Toad]

6. Thank you!

I love the world in a drop effect.

I was focusing on getting a sharp focus on the drop and didn't notice, until processing, that several of the images had an inverted image of the area behind the drop.

[Meadowoak]

3. The first photo of the obelisk tombstone is likely that of a high

Ranking free mason. My great, great grandfather had a very similar one to that circa 1856.

[Ms. Toad]

5. Thanks!

This particular project focused on one of the founding members of the community I live in. All the images in it were taken from the vantage point of his grave. This obelisk tombstone is directly in front of his grave - so i caught it at 3 different times during the day, wiht different weather each time.

There are three or four very close to the grave - this one is the largest.

[Meadowoak]

7. The graves close to the obelisk are likely his children, by design, the shadow

From the obelisk will touch each of their graves at different times of the day.

[Ms. Toad]

8. Likely, but not exactly as you suggest.

If you look closely, you can see that the clearest name is John Dissinger. On the side in the shadow is the name Henry Dissinger. On Mary (Molly) Dissinger (John's wife). I'm not sure about the arrangement of the graves around the obelisk.

Two other children (he may have had more - I didn't research his family) are buried in nearby, but different cemeteries.

The person whose grave I was using as a reference point outlived his first wife and more than half of his 14 children. His parents, his first wife, several siblings, and (I believe) 6 of his children - most who died on the day they were born - are buried in the first section of the cemetery. Two of his children are buried next to him in the second section the township acquired. Two more (at least) are buried in sections 3 and 4. Once the famly plot was filled, those who died later tend to be scattered around the cemetery.

[Solly Mack]

9. Very nice!

[Ms. Toad]

10. Thank you!

[Old Crank]

11. Very nice.