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Updated: May 01, 2013 7:29pm PST

LOS ANGELES :

Updated: Apr 30, 2013 4:50pm PST

Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Michigan : Just a few blocks from the central campus of the University of Michigan and the campus of the University of Michigan Medical School, and adjacent to a corner of Nichols Arboretum, lies another cultural and historic landmark of the city of Ann Arbor, the Forest Hill Cemetery. Founded in 1857, it was given its present layout in the 1870's. Very much in the spirit of the American 'rural' cemetery tradition, of which Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston is the first and most famous example, this heavily forested park-like setting now acts as an oasis of serenity for all who pass by. The cemetery is still in use and accepting new interments. After a century and a half, the stones or grave markers paint a poignant story of changing styles, but an unchanging desire to memorialize departed loved ones.

Even though the names of some of the most important founders and contributors to the development of the city and its primary institutions can be found here, now in the 21st century most who come here do so to enjoy the beauty of the setting, rather than to honor the more famous people buried here. I intend this gallery to pay homage to some of those famous 'residents', but also to portray the variety of styles of grave markers and memorials, and to show the very pastoral setting that surrounds them. Apart from a few pictures of the historical buildings that surround the main gate, seen from outside the cemetery, pictures of those buildings and their details will be uploaded to a separate gallery, in the 'History' sub-category of my 'Themes' gallery, here: http://arctangent.smugmug.com/Themes/History/Historic-Buildings-Forest-Hill/22214645_gVGN9C

For those of you with a real love and appreciation for the history of cemeteries and their trappings, check out the home website for Forest Hill Cemetery at http://foresthillcemeteryaa.org/

Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Mich...

Just a few blocks from the central campus of the University of Michiga ...

Updated: Apr 30, 2013 9:19am PST

Portfolio - Weddings : Dedicated to Love

Portfolio - Weddings

Alexander Fedin (jaximus)

Dedicated to Love

Updated: Apr 29, 2013 9:22pm PST

Missions of California :

Missions of California

Updated: Apr 29, 2013 4:23pm PST

Benches : Benches in public, primarily outdoors settings. Usually unoccupied.

Benches by their very nature bear invitations to the passers by, to sit, to share, to think, to remember, to dream. They speak to me. The message varies with my mood, with the weather, the time of day, the season of the year,...

These are just some of my current favorite images of benches. Favorite because of the emotions they evoke in me, and the memories they bring back.

Benches in public, primarily outdoors settings. Usually unoccupied. ...

Updated: Apr 28, 2013 4:01am PST

CRYSTAL COVE CA. :

CRYSTAL COVE CA.

Updated: Apr 26, 2013 5:15pm PST

Trains : All about trains ...all around Ohio

bakercreekdesigns

All about trains ...all around Ohio

Updated: Apr 26, 2013 7:22am PST

Montages, Sets, Assemblies, etc. : These are composites made up from other shots, assembled for a variety of purposes, but with the general intent to produce an overall effect. Sometimes my interest is in the actual content of the individual components, and sometimes it is in the use of such components to generate a very different overall composition. In the special case of sets of DP 'thumbnail' images, I'm looking for possible patterns or trends in images which I self-select for presenting to the largest audiences I get for any of my pictures on smugmug, namely the ones that go to my 'DailyPhotos' community gallery.

Montages, Sets, Assemblies, etc.

These are composites made up from other shots, assembled for a variety ...

Updated: Apr 26, 2013 4:04am PST

Traces of Faces : These are pictures, mostly collected from other galleries, in which faces or facial features can be seen in unexpected places. They must be "faces" that occurred naturally, or accidentally; not because someone painted, carved, or otherwise shaped them or any part of them deliberately to evoke recognition of a face.

What you see might differ from what I see, and that's part of the fun. Some of the choices are a bit more of a stretch than others, but if I look at a given picture repeatedly, and each time see it "staring back" at me, chances are I'll send a virtual copy of it here.

Traces of Faces

These are pictures, mostly collected from other galleries, in which fa ...

Updated: Apr 25, 2013 2:38pm PST

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