Outlined by the light
One January day, a friend and I were exploring the old cemetery in Tuscarora, Nevada, when my foot broke through the hard, dry snow and I fell, ending up flat on my back. In a cemetery. It was the tiniest bit disconcerting.
In this cemetery, I was flat on the ground again, but this time on purpose and on my stomach, to get the shot of sunlight on the iris leaves. (And for those of you keeping score, I did get one fire-ant bite.) (I would also like to point out that fire ants are appropriately named.)
at the cemetery
Knobbs Springs, Texas
photographed 2.28.2014
Posted on April 17, 2014, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, black and white photography, cemetery, knobbs springs, knobbs springs texas, melinda green harvey, monochrome, one day one image, photo a day, photography, texas. Bookmark the permalink. 15 Comments.
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It’s a fine photo and great story. But I’m most impressed that you were once in Tuscarora. I went there for a writers’ workshop. Fine place. Of course, not to be horizontal in a cemetery.
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Tuscarora’s very interesting; I’d like to go back there in the summer. Or at least not in the middle of the winter. Did you see the fence that had old wine bottle strung like giant glass beads?
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Beautiful
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Thank you, Laura!
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😀
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I hve fire ant bite experience. Your warning is well taken.
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Yeah – those ants are treacherous. We don’t have them in Lubbock, and this was taken in Central Texas, so I didn’t even think about the hazards of lying in on the ground. I was lucky that just one of them found me!
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A few weeks ago I went for a photo shoot in a cemetery and for some of the shots I had to lay on the ground on my stomach a few feet from a gravestone; the same thought crossed my minds, you kind of get up fast
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It IS a very odd feeling, isn’t it?!
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Love the shot, Melinda. Something weird about lying facing up in a cemetery – you feel like you’re measuring a plot for size.
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Yes, it was a very disconcerting few moments. (I moved A LOT faster than I thought possible.)
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I too have fire ant experience, having once pitched a tent on a nest of them in California. I won’t go into details, but I do have great respect for solenopsin.
And, where have all the rectangles gone?
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Solenopsin. Ovipositor. It’s Fancy Word Day here on the blog! (Thanks for your contributions, as I am un equipped just now to play along.)
There are plenty of other rectangles. No need to worry!
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I had missed this one. A very beautiful shot. I love the almost-out-of-this-world images.
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Thanks, Vera. Irises are my favorite flower and I like their leaves nearly as much.
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