This afternoon I drove up to Mountain View Cemetery located at the end of Piedmont Ave. in Oakland. Those who know me well, know that I love cemeteries. If you were to ask my friend Erin who lives back East, she'd probably roll her eyes and tell you how everytime I go back to see her, I make her stop in almost every cemetery I see along the way. No matter how small. Well, she has lived in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire and now lives in Massachusettes. Com'mon now, you want to take a peak at history, back East is where to do it! Oh, and Salem Mass! Oh yeah, I am all over that town EVERY time I am back there. I donno, I can't explain it. I just love cemeteries.
And apparently I am not the only one either. While I was driving and walking around MVC there was another guy there taking pictures too. I was walking up to take pictues of Domingo Ghirardelli (1817-1973) mausoleum (yes, that would be as in the chocolate), and decided to take a little detour to the right and go up and over to the left, then back down to Ghirardelli's. Because I had spotted the Delger mausoleum behind Ghirardelli's, that I just had to take a picture of it. When I got up there, that guy was up there taking pictures of it too. I struck up a conversation by saying it was nice to see I wasn;t the only one who liked to walk around cemeteries taking pictures. He told me his name was George and that he was actually borrowing a friends camera. He had never been up to the cemetery, he drove by it all the time and wanted to check it out. This picture here is the Delger mausoleum.
I was taking 2 shots of the same thing. One in black & white and one in color. I wasn't really liking how the black & whites were coming out. They were just too blah, where as the color ones I saw the pictures jump out at me. Unfortunately my battery drained, and just when I was getting to some really go spots. My camera actually died on me as I was talking a great shot. Damn it! Oh well, time to go home, download the pictures and see what I got.
The top picture is the very first picture I took. After downloading them all and looking at them, I was finding that I really, really didn't like the black & whites. Especially the top picture. Since I still have a little over a week left with my trial of Adobe Photoshop CS2, I figured I'd fix most of the pictures that I did like, and place my name and copyright date on them. Out of boredom I opened the top picture again and started tweaking with the exposure, messing with the offset and gamma. Now that top picture is my favorite one so far. I was able to give it that old European, vampire, Count Dracula look. I'm loving this PhotoShop. If anyone would like to buy me this program so I can keep creating these cool gothic pictures, please... I'd be ever so greatful!
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