Digital Cemetery Photography

By George G. Morgan

One of my favorite places to visit is a cemetery. I don't need to have ancestors or relatives buried there. I just enjoy the peaceful atmosphere, the different types of gravestones, and the social and historical information found in a cemetery. No matter whether I'm on a research trip or a casual visit, I always have a camera with me and take pictures. Many times in the past I've been sadly disappointed in the outcome, primarily with over- or underexposed images or illegible inscriptions. However, I've been experimenting with digital photography in two ways, and I'd like to share these with you in this week's "Along Those Lines . . ." column.

Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia
Shortly before our vacation in August, I received a mailing from Seattle Film Works. It contained two rolls of 35mm film and catchy descriptions of the types of processing they perform. No longer do they only develop and print photographs; they now produce digitized images on CD-ROM, they e-mail you a link to a Web site where your own digitized pictures are stored, and they will store those images there forever for free as long as you process at least two rolls of film each year. I decided to experiment with my vacation photography by using a roll of Seattle's film, a roll of Kodak film and a Fuji disposable camera. [ Read More ]