Old Cemetery Office Building
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John Galt

Old Cemetery Office Building

Old abandoned State office building on the Oakwood Cemetery grounds. I deleted the original gallery post because the image was reversed. :/
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Location
Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, NY
Equipment Used
Hasselblad 500c, Zeiss Planar 80mm f2.8
Exposure
whatever my Luna Pro told me
Film & Developer
Tri X @800, Microdol X stock
Paper & Developer
scan
Lens Filter
yellow 2
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David Lyga
Somehow the tones please me: there is nothing muddy about this low contrast picture. - David Lyga
 
what a beautiful old building ! hh richardson would be happy to see how you photographed it :smile:
the flagstones make a nice completed image, they lead away, to the unknown ...
i i find it hard to look at the whole image, can't see the image all at once because its such a big scan ..
thanks for posting !
 
John Galt
Thank you jnanian. If you double click the image the forum software reduces it to a more viewable size.
 
jtk
Handsome photo. If it was mine I'd crop out the pavement.

Might be fun to see inside :smile:
 
@John Galt
thanks john
i guess i could do that and look at it in the viewer
sorry for being lazy :wink: do you know anything about
who or when it was built ? i have my own ideas...
is the receiving tomb** the same style as this office building ?

** the receiving tomb ( aka. receiving vault ) sometimes looks like a shed, sometimes they keep the grounds equiment there
and it was also where they stored ( receive ) the deceased if the ground was too frozen to dig a proper grave.
they can be just dug out of a hill with a door or an extremely ornate structure.
 
John Galt
Actually jnanian the Cemetery Guide lists this as an old NY State Office building, I can do more research and post my findings here. There is a magnificent chapel/receiving tomb on the grounds with it's own crematorium which has not been used for a LONG time and is in bad repair.
 
John Galt
Thanks jtk, I am going to print this and enter it into a local art show cropped as you suggested.
 

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