Remembered

Nice capture Ste.

Very moving - nice treatment...

xx

Although I have seen enough death to last me a lifetime, I actually find this image rather sad and morbid. I think it does convey death and sadness, but to me it is too personal focussing on one individual. I even find it quite intrusive. I'd find it better if it was more generalised, a memorial to all fallen. Of course thats just my opinion. The treatment itself is befitting of the mood and immediatly reminded me of some stuff i did at the Staffs Arboritum last year.

Oh now thats an excelent image and a brillient editing choice.

Hmm

I know where you're coming from with regards to making the shot more generalised. Yes - focussing on the individual makes it 'sad and morbid' but for me that's what makes it work.

We see so many shots of the 'unknown' soldier, war memorials to the many, acres of cross after cross shots at war cemeteries...etc

'Remembered' is the title so for me it's very fitting as this allows us to do just that - the luxury to focus on one individual, a name, a specific date....It reminds us that there's a real person there - a son, brother, dad etc.

I think there are so many other things to take photos of, taking a photo of someones gravestone is a little bit tasteless. There are close relatives still alive who could get very upset if they saw it.

Its definately the type of photo I wouldn't even think of taking.

Bazza

Thought provoking for sure. In every news bulletin we are constantly fed a visual diet death and carnage from the multiplicity of war zones around the world which in itself induces a kind of immunity to the reality. Pictures like this, I feel, do at least serve as a reminder that real people, often very young, have made, and continue to make, the supreme sacrifice our behalf.

Photographically I think the processing does justice to the subject.

Jeff

I'm torn in the middle about this, I do like to shoot in graveyards but have always focused on the very, very old ones (1800's backwards), that have Ivy,lichen over the stones, beautiful carved ones etc.

It's a nice shot, and the treatments fine, but for me it's too personal, he will still have family alive etc, and for that reason I personally wouldn't do it, but there are several things I won't shoot. Everybody has to decide what they are comfortable shooting,so we will all have different opinions on this.

From the viewpoint of some who was involved in the forces, the one thing that many wives,family, and people serving would find really annoying was a front row of amateur photographers all firing off shots at rememberance gatherings, taking shots of old soldiers crying, that used to really pee me off. People like my Grandad would go, and often be reduced to tears, he was a proud man, it was never mentioned, it was like it didn't happen, and if someone had taken a pic of him like that, they would of got their camera up their bum Afterwards there would always be comments about a pushy photographer, or one that had a ridiculous zoom, so he could really get into an old soldiers face etc.

We all see things in different ways, not better or wrong, just different, and that comes from personal experiences etc. xxx

ALBERT CHARLES
Son of Thomas George and Rachel Richmond of Droylsden
Husband of Elsie Richmond of Droylsden
Droylsden Cemetery