Very interesting gate. I just wish the wires weren't there. The 20's look is a bit over the top IMO.
-----Original Message----- >From: "P.J. Alling" <[email protected]> >Subject: PESO -- If Yale needs the space... > >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.
