Oakwood Cemetery - 12x20 pt/pd

I feel that your picture lacks a central point of interest. The viewer is drawn in by the dark edges but there is nothing to study or rest your eyes on whrn you get there. Perhaps you should compose your picture around one tombstone on which we can pick out the detail on.

Cheers
TEX

Have a differnt take on this, one that seems to tell the story of a small plot (perhaps a family plot) that is part of a very large cemetery. IIRC this is from the State Cemetery, which is quite large and mostly well maintained, so it is a contradiction of sorts - which can be seen behind the forground that is unkept, while behind it is what appears to be a well kept grounds. While composing on a single headstone would make for an interesting photograph, I think you showed what you saw (and thus felt) was more interesting.

Matt: No doubt that if one could see the actual 12 x 20 inch print, there would be a dozen "points of interest" to rest one's eyes on. Your prints are never one dimensional and that's the beauty of them. I'm not a fan of cemetery images per se, but this one works. Well done!

Thank you all for the comments.
Mike you are spot on about the "intention" etc. Successfully expressing this intention is of course, entirely subjective.
Tex, I appreciate you sharing your thoughts, and likely that if I were to photograph there with an 8x10, 4x5, roll camera, focusing more on the singular subject would be likely. But given the way that I see with my main format of 12x20, the sense of place/space/dimension is more what I am longing to achieve.

Again, thank you all.

Old cemeteries are a great subject for black and white photographs. This one is particularly good. Great use of contrast, too.