Right above my house, a block away, is the Sunset View Cemetery, Mortuary and Crematorium. If you’ve never lived near a cemetery, it’s great. Quiet. Plenty of crows. Not much traffic except for the occasional larger motorcade. The sort of place that just fades into the background.
sunset view
One day last January, I was working my way up the cemetery hill with the gh5 and the 12-60 lens taking landscape shots in order to get a feel for the lens. As the battery on the camera died, I came to the Mortuary at the top of the hill. Following the rule that the best camera is the one that’s working, I went in.
For much of that time, I was the only person there except for a single attendant who was kind enough to let me shoot and wander.
I couldn’t have been happier with the session. To my eye, the whole place is a marble symphony of perfect lines, perspective, glass bricks and reflections forever. It hits all the right OCD buttons.
All the shots are with the SE, natural light and I didn’t move or stage a single thing. The shots may have been ever-so-slightly nudged in Lightroom.
Layout-wise, I tried to reflect the way the place was laid out, especially as one of the things that fascinated me the most was how reflections changed down each gallery. I think using the SE was good in that it forced me to move instead of messing with light and focus on the gh5.
Display-wise, this one is best viewed on a laptop or desktop.