PJ, You owe me a cookie... On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 1:09 AM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > This is the main gate of the Grove Street Cemetery once on the edge of the > Campus of Yale University in New Haven, CT. Now more, and more, surrounded > by that institution. It's quite impressive built in the Egyptian Revival > Style in the 1920's which is now considered to be part of the Art Deco > style. > > Inscribed over the entrance is "THE DEAD SHALL BE RAISED." To which the > then President of Yale University is said to have added; "If Yale needs the > space." Which explains my title. > > The Trusties of the Cemetery have a long memory, Yale has decided to build > two new Residential Colleges, (there's a long explanation, but think > expansive dormitories, plus, and you won't be far off), and the powers at > Yale suggested to the Cemetery Trustees that it would be nice to put a > second entrance on the opposite side of the Cemetery so students could > stroll through on their way to classes rather than taking the long way > around. The Trustees answer can be summarized as "We think not." > > This was going to be my entry in the Iconic Places PUG, but seeing how much > explanation was necessarily, I decided against it, after all how Iconic > could it actually be. > > https://pdml.updog.co/webster26/PESO%20--%20ifyaleneedsthespace.html > > Equipment: Pentax K-5II w/smc Pentax FA 20-35mm f4.0. > > I decided to go with a period 20's look, so I used the DXO filmpack filter > to convert to B&W using a deep orange filter, and a slow film, (25 ASA), and > medium format grain, then sepia tinted the final image which kind of brought > the gate back to it's original color, well close, the gate is made from red > sandstone. I've seen that treatment done in a lot of B&W photos of brown > stone buildings from the period. > > As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. > > Damn, that was long, if you got this far you deserve a cookie, I don't have > one for you, but you deserve one none the less. > > > -- > I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve > immortality through not dying. > -- Woody Allen > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions.
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