"The last bit of daylight sneaks through a stained glass window on the Ivy Chapel at Fairmount Cemetery and Mortuary in Denver on May 4, 2008. Built in 1890, the same year the cemetery opened, the chapel features ecclasiastical gothic design."
After spending most of the day lying around I finally made it outside to make some pictures just before the sun went down. I got in my car and started driving west with no particular destination in mind. I weaved in and out of side streets until I got to Quebec St. One of my photo professors talked about Fairmount Cemetary when I last saw him last Wednesday. He mentioned that he too was cruising, on his bike, around town one day and ran into the cemetery and decided to take some pictures. It is located just down Quebec St. from where I was so I immediately headed that direction.
I have to be honest, cemeteries creep me out but Sean raved about it so much that I just sucked it up and started making images. The light was terrible as it was an overcast day and I was loosing light by the minute. All the pictures of cemeteries that I've seen seem to use good, hard light and shadows to create graphic images. I didn't have that luxury so I tried to see if something else popped out at me. On my way back to the car I was walking past one of the four chapels that they have on site and noticed the a bit of color coming through the stained glass windows. The overcast day let just enough light come through the windows on the opposite side to create a soft green highlight. The architecture was particularly interesting and when I got home and did some research I learned that it was a gothic design. For what I had to work with in the conditions I'm pleased with finding something graphic that definitely stands out among the rest of my take.
This evening I worked some more on the wedding book that I'm creating for Destiney and Michael. The book is really coming together and it's really rewarding to see the images in a format that tells a story.
My marketing group and I get our marketing plan back tomorrow with a grade so my mood will probably depend on how that turns out.
-JCE
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