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Momento Mori
Momento Mori
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Challenge: Cemetery (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Location: Oudekerk a/d Amstel
Date: Mar 26, 2005
Aperture: f/7.1
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Emotive, Architecture
Date Uploaded: Mar 26, 2005

 A memento mori is a form of image that urged a European person of the late Middle Ages to "remember thy death." To do this, a memento mori might represent death as a human skeleton perhaps as the Grim Reaper gathering his harvest or it might depict human bodies in an advanced state of decay.1 Its purpose is to remind the viewer that death is an unavoidable part of life, something to be prepared for at all times. Memento mori images are graphic demonstrations of the fact that death was not only a more frequent, but a far more familiar occurrence in medieval Europe than it is today.

Levels, selective (red and magentas) hue/saturation (to get the brown water turn to blood)
Cloned out a leaf that had fallen on the grave and that I didn't see when taken this photo (I have cleaned a few other graves, but this one I had to do in Photoshop) USM size save for web.

Date/Time 26-Mar-2005 16:08:59
Make Canon
Model Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL
Lens make Tokina
Model Tokina AT-X 242 (24-200 mm)
Flash Used No
Focal Length 24 mm
Exposure Time 1/125 sec
Aperture f/7.1
ISO Equivalent 100
Exposure Bias -1/3
White Balance (-1)
Metering Mode matrix
Exposure Program aperture priority


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Votes: 200
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04/03/2005 08:44:04 PM
This close up causes confusion for me as a viewer, uncertain if it is vertical or on the ground, if the blood red liquid is blood or paint or murky rainwater, though the image evokes dread and death. a reflection in the liquid perhaps would have given this more context.
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 04/03/2005 12:35:04 PM
Quite interesting. Looks like there is no hope of coming back. Bumping up.
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 03/31/2005 02:05:27 PM
Eerie!
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 03/30/2005 09:00:43 PM
I am making two passes on this Challenge. I will vote on your photo then return later(before voting is over) to comment on what I like and dislike about your shot. You can take the comments however you wish and I will try not to be mean. Just don't take it the wrong way.
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A little too close. The border works here for me.
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 03/30/2005 06:58:13 PM
great pics I have to say I love the red.
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 03/30/2005 11:02:59 AM
Is that you in the reflection? It's a little distracting. But this is a great find, definitely different, the red implying blood works well.
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 03/30/2005 08:25:47 AM
Whoa... gruesome! Not really an exciting composition for me.
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 03/29/2005 10:25:02 PM
Interesting tombstone. The shadow in the right eye of the skull is a bit distracting to me...but otherwise a good picture
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 03/28/2005 12:46:20 PM
Very gruesome... not my kind of photograph... but I like your idea and take on the composition. Great composition and tones.
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 03/28/2005 08:25:56 AM
ummmmmmmm no


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