Crosses

@kaneli: Thank you.

@MadScientist: "Advertisement" isn't quite right --a "campaign" perhaps? The accompanying sign was about children's hunger. BTW, for a marvelous graveyard, go here and checkout the shot by Gianni Olivia for the week of 1 April (unfortunately, there is no separate link for that image).

@Daroru: These crosses were randomly, but fairly evenly, placed, so the density in the background is an effect of perspective.

@Anthony: Yes, I thought it was about Iraq until I read the sign.

@Observing: Yes, and I thought it was about Iraq until I read the sign --which didn't exactly stimulate any cheerier thinking.

@Dross: Thank you.

@danthro: It was a display alongside a highway about children's hunger. From the distance I thought it was a comment on the war in Iraq, but for that, they would have needed about four times more crosses than the 1200 or so that are supposed to be here (though I think the 1200 was a daily, not a yearly number, so the actual toll is greater).

BTW, I shot many frames from different angles. I liked a couple of the others too, but as is often the case, my first approach did not produce the results I liked best.

@drphoto: Thanks. I shot all around these crosses --probably took 40 shots. It's amazing how much difference in effect there is between one image and another just due to a slightly different placement of the crosses within the frame. In a scene like this one, in the same location, just moving the camera a little yields, for me, a nearly bewildering number of choices, and experience has taught me I don't always make the right choice. This image stood out on the monitor because of the shadows the foreground crosses made on the ground --something I didn't even notice when I was shooting.

@Zorilla: Well, I certainly agree there --sort of amazingly so when you consider exactly what this stylized abstraction is supposed to represent, not to mention the uses to which it has been put, and what it has often actually represented.

@dj.tigersprout: I've gotten almost to the point where I'm never without a camera. This isn't a cemetery though, it was part of a campaign against children's hunger.