Well, I'd rather owe you than cheat you.
On 10/24/2016 10:54 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote:
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.
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